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Creating a character and backstory for the original creator of The Museum of Curious Memories. The Archivist I am in the midst of creating a large interactive piece of work called ‘The Museum of Curious Memories ’. A seemingly endless collection of memories stored in bottles, boxes and books. As a back story for its creation I ventured to the beginnings of Museum History and 17th Century London . Looking through parish registers, vestry books, archives and maps. I’ve chosen specific places and times, invented characters and gathered real historical objects to make the story feel inhabited rather than imagined. Survey of London The survey of London: contayning the orignall, increase, moderne estate, and government of that city, methodically set downe by Stow, John, 1525?-1605 Publication date 1633 Credit: CREATIVE COMMONS Details: Contributor: Wellcome Library Civitas Londinum detail [1561?] Section of the Civitas Londinium taken from the digital copy of the Map of Early and Modern London website (The Agas Map) Credit: The London Archives, City of London, SC/GL/CIL/001 A Peep into 17th Century London Tunnel Book Section of the Civitas Londinium taken from the digital copy of the Map of Early and Modern London website (The Agas Map) Credit: The London Archives, City of London, SC/GL/CIL/001 Man in a Tall Hat, Adriaen Brouwer, 1636 - 1637 Description: Collection Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Acquired with the collection of: D.G. van Beuningen 1958 Credit: Photographer: Studio Tromp Detail of parish records from St Botolph without Aldgate Credit: The London Archives, City of London Parish record book from St Botolph without Aldgate Credit: The London Archives, City of London

Research based in 17th Century Portsoken Ward, Aldgate, London. 17th Century London Visual storytelling work based on research done at The London Archives of 17th Century Portsoken Ward, Aldgate, London. Part of my Arts Council funded Develop Your Creative Practice year of research. Below are video clips of drawings and models I created based on the Civitas Londinum Map , and a simple point and click game called Where is John?

Things I'm Doing Museum of Curious Memories The Archivist Researching Old London Community Arts

Research based in 17th Century Portsoken Ward, Aldgate, London. The London Archives As part of my Arts Council 'Develop Your Creative Practice ' research I visited The London Archives and looked at the 17th Century parish records of St Botolphs Without Aldgate in Portsoken Ward, London. I found and fell in love with the writings of 'John Clerke The Parish Clarke'. Since researching I have started to create new work: 17th Century London .

A seemingly endless collection of memories stored in bottles, boxes and books. Each one contains a small object, a story, or an imagining. The Museum of Curious Memories A seemingly endless collection of memories stored in bottles, boxes and books. Each one contains a small object, a story, or an imagining, transporting you to a specific place or time. The Backstory - The Archivist Box No. 3 - The Box of Unwanted Memories Box No. 11 - The Cabinet of Curious Memories Box No. 15 - The Box of Boxes Box No. 18 - Figmentum Memoriae or The Figment Arts Memory Box

Know Thyself The images below have been used to help support new therapists training in Cognitive Analytical Therapy (CAT) with Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. "We have recently started with a new cohort of 18 CAT trainees from all over the South of England and are using a conference centre in Hove to deliver the training. We'd really love to have a session led by you on the training. It received such good feedback from the trainees last time and is such an important part of having a modern and relevant training." Robert Marx, Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) Practitioner Training Course Director More information about Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) Practitioner Training. At the Beginning Things Begin to Change Learning to Become Integrated Know Thyself

Yvonne J Foster was one of three artists chosen to take part in the Step Up: Interpreting Collections training programme delivered in partnership with Outside In and The Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection Yvonne J Foster was one of three artists chosen to take part in the Step Up: Interpreting Collections training programme, delivered in partnership with Outside In and The Wellcome Collection . "I'm two sessions in to the Step Up: Interpreting Collections course. This year is based at the Wellcome Collection, somewhere I've been wanting to visit for years. The part I knew nothing about was the man behind the collection, who by all accounts seems to have been a complete (and fabulous) eccentric: 'Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936) was a luxuriantly moustached entrepreneur, archaeologist and philanthropist, and a manic collector of objects.' We have been given the chance to research something from the Medicine Man exhibition; a tiny representation of the vast Wellcome Collection hoard. We have been spoilt for choice, as the exhibition holds a plethora of objects from false limbs and early prosthetics (my favourite being a very piratey looking peg leg) to Napoleon’s toothbrush and the medicine chest that Scott took to the Antarctic. There are thousands of hidden stories behind each of the objects and I’ve been asked just to follow one. I feel like I’m on an adventure, following a lead or a clue and see where it takes me. I’m finding out as much as I can about the people behind the object. Who made it? Who used it? Where were they? What were they doing? Throughout their time within the Wellcome Collection objects have a story outside their original use. The have been examined, researched, handled and numbered in an effort to comprehensively organise and categorise the collection. The idea of looking at objects and following a path to find out their journey is so appealing. An area of work I am currently exploring is to do with just that; stories behind collected objects and their corresponding numbers, labels and cataloging. So being given the chance to research at the Wellcome Collection is extremely exciting. But you don’t always find the answers. There’s gaps, dead ends and missing information. Which surprisingly makes the story even more intriguing." Hidden Stories Behind Museum Objects IMG_3365 IMG_3340 IMG_0127

Look Down The 'Look Down' series was exhibited as part of INEXTRICABLE (2) an exhibition in the 2016 Brighton Photo Fringe Festival. The theme explores 'loanwords' in the English language - everyday words firmly entrenched in our vocabulary which have been adopted from another language. "Yvonne explores the connections between words and images. The photographs alone are intentionally banal and ambiguous. By using the history and meaning of words she highlights other possible meanings within the images." look (v.) Old English locian "use the eyes for seeing, gaze, look, behold, spy," from West Germanic *lokjan down (adv.) Late Old English shortened form of Old English ofdune "downwards," from dune "from the hill," down (n.) A sense development peculiar to English. Used as a preposition since c. 1500. Sense of "depressed mentally " is attested from c. 1600. shoe (n.) Old English scoh "shoe," from Proto-Germanic *skokhaz To stand in someone's shoes "see things from his or her point of view" is attested from 1767. lace (n.) early 13c., laz , "cord made of braided or interwoven strands of silk, etc.," from Old French laz "a net, noose, string, cord, tie, ribbon, or snare" and as preserved in shoelace (late 14c.), "piece of cord used to draw together the edges of slits or openings in an article of clothing". sneaker (n.) 1590s, "one who sneaks," agent noun from sneak (v.). Meaning "rubber-soled shoe" is attested from 1895, American English; earlier sneak (1862), so called because the shoe was noiseless. The INEXTRICABLE project has been developed and curated by Jenni Lewin-Turner of urbanflo creative .

Things I've Done Exhibitions Ice Cream Artworks Miniature Artworks Finding Dad My Miniature Art Gallery The Alchemist Brain Landscapes The Pianola Roll Art as Storytelling Drawing Insight Make Your Mark Look Down Portraits Brighton Panorama Know Thyself Inside Early Work

Brain Landscapes "The ‘noise’ of persistent unwanted negative thoughts and emotions were almost impossible to shift; no amount of mindfulness calmed them. Sometimes painful, always doggedly loud, the relentless subconscious mind hurled fractured memories at me. Pictures would appear like a high speed self-flicking photo album, bombarding me with not just the image but the corresponding emotion, feeling or sensation. Happening too quickly to catch, pin down or make sense of. Brain Landscapes are a glimpse of that experience." Below are a selection of Brain Landscapes images, an MRI scan of Yvonne's brain and the resulting short film clip capturing the persistent 'noise' of unwanted negative thoughts and emotions. The film was exhibited as part of the neXus 2020: a multi-venue international art exchange organised and curated by Urbanflo Creative , with o nline galleries at Photofringe and Vrystaatkunstefees . 1/1

Invisibles from Yvonne J Foster's 'Ice Cream Artworks' series Invisibles Get in touch if you are interested in commissioning a portrait Ice Cream Artworks The Ice Cream Artworks are inspired by the illustrative style of the early 20th Century, especially the work of artist Coles Phillips, known for his stylish images and signature use of negative space. In 1908 he launched his “Fadeaway Girl” style used in advertisements and magazine covers. In the Invisibles series elements are strip away, leaving only specific details with a circle motif and bright colours. Created from photographs of every day people eating ice cream (and one lollipop). Lynn Suzie Tracy Bryony

Who was Seymour? A shoe box filled with paper ephemera tells the story of one mans life. Following his journey through primary school and leaving home for the first time for boarding school, to surviving two world wars. A jumble of handwritten letters now lovingly organised and brought to life in two antique photo albums. Ancestry research into his life has helped build a family tree and made sense of the authors and recipients of the letters but there are still more questions than answers about his life. So, who was Seymour?