jo clement | writer

2010 marks one hundred and twenty five years of Darlington Library being open to the public. Recently I've been looking for a photograph...

Mary Greg became a point of interest to me a few years ago, when I was working freelance in Manchester and stumbled on an exhibition of...

Earlier this year Johanna Basford started a brave illustration challenge to create a collaborative piece of handmade art digitally. Inky...

For generations, the side of our family from Durham worked on farms. Even though I didn’t grow up in a quaint farmhouse with acres of...

Swallowing avocado flesh scooped with a spoon from the sliced half in my hand, I told a friend that I collect the stones. “You...

When I was sixteen my art teacher tacked this photograph to our bright red stockroom door. At the time, I was drawing lots of animal...

Due to recent upheaval, I've decided to reshape my life and focus on my writing. This is my new flat in Bondgate, Darlington. The whole...

In Manchester I recently visited the What Are You Like exhibition. The premise of the collection was based on a Victorian parlour game....

Last night (or probably this morning - when do dreams happen?) I was on my old 204 school bus. Upstairs on the very back seat, in the...

From afar this diddy picture by Cordelia Cembrowicz looks like a simple coffee coloured mug. Sadly, that blurry outline is as close as...

Our experience of reading, like viewing art, is undoubtedly coaxed and shaped by the environment it takes place in. From a heeled shoe...

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