Recognizing the power of the visual together with the verbal, we collaborate with Kettle’s Yard to bring 16 diverse PhD candidates and early-career scholars researching movement together with artists whose memories and experiences of displacement inspire the expressive imagery inherent in their artwork. 

The inaugural issue focuses on victims of displacement, showcasing works-in-progress produced during the Covid-19 pandemic by Cambridge graduate and postgraduate researchers. Contributors address movement through various methodologies, including ethnographic fieldwork, legal analysis and archival research, alongside mixed media techniques, expressionist oil painting, healing finger painting, object biographies, poetry and plasterwork.