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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Starting tomorrow i'll be artist in residence at a local community sauna for the whole of June- what a perfect thing for a sauna-loving artist like me! I wrote about this and some related stuff here: kateshields.substack.com/p/a-world-in...

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a world in a sauna

I'm doing a residency in a sauna + 'I HATE SOCIAL MEDIA'

K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

If you’re a freelancer/creative/run a non-profit/small business and find it hard to manage your socials, I’ve only gone and started a monthly email offering tips, hacks & resources to try and help make things a bit easier (it’s my day job!) Sign up here: eepurl.com/jfADZk

A smashed iPhone laying on a concrete floor. The screen is white and black and yellow hols text ‘I hate social media’

K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

We’re so hungry for truly queer, non-corporate spaces Omg. I’m particularly excited about the ‘Nerf the Terf’ tent. 🔫

K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

A very cute site visit ahead of Camp Kindred, a non-profit, brand-free queer gathering I’m involved in coming up this July, somewhere in East Sussex. It can’t happen without you, so book a camping ticket now if you want to be part of the inaugural event! campkindred.uk

A woodland nook in a sunny field. Looking out over a wooden fence, there is a small treehouse stage in the distance amongst the trees.

A small nuclear standing stone in an expanse of grass. To the right two people are walking across the grass and smiling

Two people stand on the steps of a small wooden stage in a woodland clearing.

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Trans Legal Project @translegalproject.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

It is very very important that money keeps coming into @goodlawproject.bsky.social fundraisers in the light of this. We have no billionaire funders, so we must do it ourselves.

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ACORN the union @acornunion.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🚨 With Awaab’s Law coming into effect and the Renters' Rights Bill due to become law later this year, this is a crucial time to make sure renters’ voices are heard. That’s why we’ve just launched our yearly Renters Survey!

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Fun with stone and glass textures in Blender

An abstract, composite digital shape on a bright yellow background. The shape consists of 4 merged jagged objects with jagged edges, one of stone, 2 are almost like glass. They are earthy tones, blues, greys and dusty pink

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

If you’re getting an ‘adult content’ button, it’s just a life drawing, don’t worry

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

A little reminder that I send out a monthly substack feat. upcoming projects, ideas & research plus news from my biome (friends + connections!) If youre into my work but, like me, trying to limit social media usage, sign up here: kateshields.substack.com

A bright greenish yellow background with black digital meshes of stones forming a section of a stone circle

A portrait of me, an artist with dark short hair wearing a black vest top and red lipstick, standing infront of a projection of my work ‘organsongs’. A pink hazy organic shape is projected across my face and body as I turn my head slightly to the right of the scene.

A selection of experimental life drawings on brown paper. 3 large figures drawn with charcoal and pale skin-toned chalk. The lines are smudged and smeared giving the appearance of movement.

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

A cool workshop yesterday: we played TTRPG worldbuilding game A Quiet Year, then some speculative writing about the worlds we’d created at the Art Research Garden organised by Hildegard’s Garden Society (hildegardsgardeningcompanions.cargo.site)

A piece of paper featuring brightly coloured hand drawn maps laying on a dark green blanket. There are legs of 2 people just visible around it.

The cover of the TTRPG ‘a quiet year’ held in my hand, with green grass, wildflowers and bushes in the background

K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Saw this edited chalk board at a gallery and now all I can think about is what it’s like to be hugged by eels.

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Eek this is a bit good. The other side of a later-in-life diagnosis is a fucking nightmare. My unmasking technique looks a lot like not-leaving-the-house these days.

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Blindboy is always good but this is VERY good

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Slowly getting over my 2nd covid infection, which means I finally put the finishing touches to my May substack about my Fabrica residency and sent it out into the world. Do have a read! This was such a joyful project: kateshields.substack.com/p/future-sto...

An image of a yellow sand circle full of small stones in a large empty church space. Text overlaid reads: ‘FUTURE STONES
a look back at my week-long residency at Fabrica Gallery + other stuff’

Part 1 of a wide digital artwork. A bright yellow/green background with a selection of stones seen as black meshes.

Part 2 of the image, showing the other side of the image.

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Spent most of my 2nd time with COVID playing #DiscoElysium I’m just really sad I couldn’t get Lieutenant Kim to trust me.

Screenshot from Disco Elysium. A run down street with ‘UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI’ painted in red letters.

K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Fab time at PlayOffice in Portsmouth this weekend learning projection mapping in TouchDesigner alongside a fun & diverse group of creatives. PlayOffice is an accessible creative tech studio. Love to see places like this!: www.play-office.com

A laptop showing a bright orange and pink pattern sits on a white desk surrounded by cables and projectors. Projections cover the walls from different sources.

K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

In Portsmouth for a workshop, and I stumbled across the ‘Pique stone’, which apparently saved a ship from sinking in 1835 by plugging a hole following damage when it ran ashore? @stoneclub.bsky.social

A plague on a brick wall reads ‘This stone was found wedges in a hole in the bottom of the Frigate HMS PiQUE C. Captain the Hon H.J Rous R.ND when the ship was docked in Portsmouth in Oct 1835. The PIQUE had run ashore in the Belle Isle Straits, Labrador, in Sept of that year. After refloating herself she sailed across the Atlantic without a rudder & with pumps continuously manned to control her leaks. But for this stone, acting as a plug to one of the larger holes, she would certainly have foundered.
A splendid feat of seamanship.’

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

‘Drawing with stones’- an experimental life drawing session ran as a collaboration with the brilliant Jane Fordham as part of my Making Space residency at fabrica gallery last week. Stones! Drawing!

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 30/04/2025

Absolutely adore the elegance of this. Love having a job where I stumble over this kind of stuff in the (digital) archives!

An 1857 visualisation of the animal kingdom, tree-of-life inspired but curly and swishy and elegant.

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

….caught the stone circle in this gorgeous morning light at Fabrica on the final day of my residency here. The stones are on their way back to their owners, the sand swept away with a big broom. This residency has been such a joy!

A large church hall, with soft morning light through tall windows illuminating a circle of stones on the wooden floor.

An empty church hall with a wooden floor and tall stained glass windows at one end

K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The final day of my Making Space residency culminated with a closing ritual, featuring a spoken word piece created from the words, memories and feelings gathered in stone sharing workshops. ✨

A close up of a hand anointing a stone with oil.

A hand holds a slip of paper that reads “the symbolic aspect of lots of special stones making their way to another point of connection.”

A long table covered with cut outs of words on white paper being organised into a different order

A ceremonial metal bowl in the centre of a yellow circle of sand filled with water and yellow rose petals. Next to it is a paper scroll tied with a yellow ribbon. Smoke drifts in from the top right of the image.

K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Thanks! It’s been magical :)

K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The final drawing in the first post includes a poem about hagstones, written by their dad who had passed away recently. They told us the family all got hagstone tattoos, and then another person in the room said ‘I have one too!’ Magic stones ✨

K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Each stone was washed, anointed and finally 3D scanned before being adding to the circle. Loved the autistic synchronicity of late night stone circle scan editing whilst listening to the latest @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social- stone circles/Irish mythology/fairy forts & anthrax in the soil. ☢️

A digital 3D scan of a selection of stones, viewed as black mesh files over a bright nuclear yellow/green background

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Day 3 of my residency FUTURE STONES at Fabrica. Ran 2 stone & story sharing group workshops today, where we talked, drew and listened, before building a collaborative stone circle within the space. Such a lovely day of community warmth & creativity (& a love of stones!)✨ @stoneclub.bsky.social

A group of people within an old church engaged in a series of tasks. Some are around a square table covered in paper and materials. Some are standing near a large yellow circle made of sand.

A close up of a miniature standing stone, black and white patterned, stands on a wooden floor covered in yellow sand. In the background is a line of other stones, just out of focus.

A person wearing a black skirt and top bends over placing a stone within a large yellow circle on a wooden floor.

A sketch of a hagstone with a poem written around it by someone named Jem Verse.
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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

A brilliant day drawings with stones with Jane Fordham and her experimental life drawing group at Fabrica gallery. I’ve modelled for Jane’s sessions myself for over 10 years now, and so as part of my residency I invited Jane to collaborate on this session. Such a great day drawing & talking STONES

An old wooden floor, illuminated by a strip of sunlight. There are markings on the floor made using bright yellow sand.

Hands holding out a large flat piece of quartz stone, which glistens in the light

A piece of paper with a list of words written in charcoal:
‘heart earth smooth closed secret black back’ The name ‘Jane’ appears at the top.

A continuous line drawing on white paper of two intertwined figures walking

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Peaceful first day of my Making Space residency at Fabrica: ‘Future Stones’. Making circles, scanning stones and setting up for workshops. (And a tarot reading to start ofc)

A Celtic tarot spread on a wooden church floor

An old church with a grey concrete floor: in the centre of the floor is a stone circle made of yellow and silver paper stones, bright yellow sand, and flowers.

A long wooden table up against a white wall. On the table is a selection of books. Hanging on the wall is a ordnance survey map of Brighton.

A screen shot from a phone showing a 3D digital scan of a rainbow-tinged stone.

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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

What will happen to us un-women? My thoughts on today’s UK Supreme Court decision excluding trans women from the legal category of women. Over at Autostraddle: www.autostraddle.com/uk-supreme-c...

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Illegally Female

The UK's Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that trans women are not legally considered women.

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

If you’re headed to Ed Fringe, Emma will be doing a solo version of this show there this year. I might be a bit biased but it’s a beautiful, moving, funny show about identity, 90s nostalgia, queerness, transness…and ofc Nirvana. More here: www.emmafrankland.co.uk/work/no-apol...

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

It’s been a shitty few days. Choosing to remember we performed a full-length theatre show about Kurt Cobain being trans with a full live trans+nb band on the day the UK reached peak trans-panic. 🎶“What else can I say? Everyone is gay!”#TransRightsAreHumanRights

A theatre stage lit in dim blue lighting, showing a replica of the Nirvana Unplugged in NY stage set. A chandelier hovers high above, before the musicians walk on stage.

The finale of NO APOLOGIES, a brightly lit yellow stage full of musicians surrounding a performer standing on flight cases dressed as Kurt Cobain in a yellow gown that represents the sun. She is singing to the gathered audience.

Six musicians stand in a final curtain call, smiling with their arms around eachother.

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

In our final rehearsals for this amazing show I’m part of happening on Weds eve at ACCA in #Brighton So excited/nervous to get back onstage on guitar, but couldn’t imagine a better way to do it! www.attenboroughcentre.com/events/5362/...

A pile of pink black and white punk flyers, with an image of Emma Frankland in a gown, snarling whilst holding a guitar. Text on the flyer reads ‘Emma Frankland’s NO APOLOGIES performed with a live band, 8pm 16/4/25, Attenborough centre for the creative arts.’

ACORN the union @acornunion.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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🏠 The government is planning to bring in higher standards for energy efficiency, meaning all private rental homes must have an EPC rating of C or above by 2030 (🧵)

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This weekend my body firmly and viscerally rejected the new meds I’ve been put on, resulting in a Sunday a&e visit (and yet more drugs). So…here’s a pic of my weird little film installation ‘a stone circle for the future’ on show at ‘FOLKLORE’ for one more weekend in #Newhaven. Worth a visit!

A large gallery space filled with bright artworks. In the foreground is a circle of bright yellow/green papier-mâché rocks surrounding a flat tv screen in the centre.

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TLDR: our health and our diets are inseparable from systems of oppression and structural inequality!

Thinking of our bodies as separate to the environment is a relatively new (Western, Capitalist) concept of course: indigenous lifestyles and stories have known we are connected to our surroundings forever, and this book covers this beautifully and powerfully.

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‘INFLAMED: Deep medicine and the anatomy of injustice’ by Rupa Marya & Raj Patel. Each chapter uses a bodily system as an analogy to describe how our collaborative health is interlinked with systems of oppression and inequality: eg the breakdown in biodiversity and our gut health….

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1/1 This was a particularly interesting one for me, as someone living with Ulcerative Colitis and therefore a malfunctioning large intestine. My project ‘GUTS (The Enchanted Forest)’ reimagined the gut as a forest, reliant on complex lifeforms to thrive. It was inspired by an excellent book (cont)

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Enjoying @atomfall.com which is extremely relevant to my interests (Folklore! Nuclear stuff! Druids!) I still find first-person gaming *so* hard. Glad for the accessibility options to help with motion sickness but still find myself getting confused and dying a lot during combat #atomfall

A still from a game showing a view of large standing stones in a forest. There are trees all around as well as colourful bunting, and a blue light emanates from the centre.

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Happy world autism day or whatever- in entirely related news today I bought some moss.

A big bowl of lovely moss in a bowl in a kitchen.

Sluice__ @sluiceart.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

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[World-building primer]

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

So chuffed to show ‘a stone circle for the future’ as part of this diverse and exciting show in Newhaven: FOLKLORE curated by Toadlickers Collective. Open until 12 April! www.toadlickers.co.uk/folklore-new...

A white wall with the words FOLKLORE written in dark pink lettering. Underneath are the open dates 27.03.25 - 12.04.25

A circle of small bright lime-yellow coloured stone-shaped sculptures around a black flat TV laying on its back showing a film.

A wooden shelf of organic objects, such as clay smiley faces, weaved bags and herbs. Hanging above from pink string are 4 pink hag stones with a series of abstract Polaroids above them on the wall.

A folk-esque sculpture of a black hobby horse wearing a patchwork gown of black, white and pink.

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I’m building a collaborative stone circle inside Fabrica in #Brighton next month as part of a week-long Making Space residency exploring community and connection. I need your stones + stories! Here’s all the details if you want to get involved: kateshields.substack.com/p/future-sto...

An abstract collage image of brightly coloured stones overlayed on a photo of a bright, wooded-floored church hall. White text over the top reads: “future stones: building a collaborative stone circle in brighton join me on the 23 + 24 April at fabrica, brighton”

K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

If anyone wants to buy me a new Xbox now would be a good time. 😭

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Happy Spring equinox. Here’s some pics from a beach fire last night and my cherry tree blossoming 🌸

A close up of 2 yellow roses, held in front of a fire pit on a beach. Sitting around the fire are people, some are hugging.

A close up of a blossoming cherry tree branch in front of a blue spring sky

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Hiding in long grass taking down N*zis is my new favourite hobby. Extremely cathartic, 100% would recommend. #SniperElite

A computer game screenshot showing the outline of a shooter laying in long grass aiming into the distance

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K Shields @kshields.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Much excite to be part of this upcoming exhibition: FOLKLORE exploring “why folklore is having a revival and how contemporary artists are using its legends, techniques and aesthetics to describe their experiences” Let’s goooo! www.toadlickers.co.uk/folklore-new... #folklore

A bright green, yellow and orange doctored image of the long man of Wilmington. The word ‘folklore’ is written at the top in hot pink psychedelic lettering, with the exhibition dates at the bottom in white text: ‘27.03-12.04.25 marine workshops, Newhaven bn9’