
The WITTA podcast is hosted by Lizzie Lloyd and Kit Poulson Senior Lecturers in Fine Art and Art & Writing at UWE Bristol. The WITTA podcast invites guests to reflect on why they do things with words, how they do things with words and what words allow them to do that other materials don’t. Listen on for all things Art and Words. You can find us here on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Episode 1
WITTA with Catherine Parsonage:
On the fragility of words, the fixity of painting, and the joys of using literary references as starting points.
In this episode, Catherine Parsonage looks to the fragility of words – the way that words can be broken up and put back together, and carried around in our bodies – as a counterpoint to what she sees as the fixity of painting.
Keywords: painting as conversation; intensity; cliche; fragility; style; Frank O’Hara
Episode 2
WITTA with Bryony Gillard:
On the importance of reading, the challenge of writing and writing with AI
In this episode, artist Bryony Gillard talks about her shifting approach to using writing from her love of concrete poetry, ambiguity and citation to her recent interest in making writing accessible, borrowing from the narrative structure of 90s Rom-Coms.
Keywords: Writing with AI; automatic writing; citation; structure; collage; precision; rom-com; translation
Episode 3
WITTA with Wood and Harrison:
On voice, writing lists, timing and finding systems to make decisions for you.
In this episode, we speak to artists John Wood and Paul Harrison about making sculpture with language, developing systems for making art with words, and the power of playing with expectations.
Keywords: diagrams; instruction; subtitles; caption; joke; punchline; accents; sports commentary; grammar; editing; sign

WITTAnights are a place for showing, reading, listening and trying things out.

Calling all artists who write, writers who art(!) and everything in between: tell us more about your work.

The WITTA podcast – hosted by Lizzie Lloyd and Kit Poulson – invites guests to reflect on why they do things with words, how they do things with words and what words allow them to do that other materials don’t.

Through various WITTA events, working with participants and collaborators within and beyond the university, questions have emerged.

This WITTAfilm was made from interviews and materials gathered at an informal week-long creative residency / experiment called WITTAverse.

In July 2023, WITTAverse happened. It was a week-long event which involved a range of artists, writers, composers, and students.

Members of the Ways of Writing in Art & Design (WoW) network, which is housed within the Visual Culture Research Group, have written and guest edited the first of two special issues of the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice.

Invitation to work as part of a research group devised by artists Beverley Carruthers and Wiebke Leister, which investigates contemporary modes of collaborative image-text-production.

Freya Dooley and Cinzia Mutigli’s ongoing collaboration spans writing, performance, sound and moving image.

In this inaugural event we invite Polly Barton and Daniela Cascella to discuss translation, relationships between art, writing and sound, and what it means to write between disciplines.

This evening of conversation with artist Katy Beinart, writer Lizzie Lloyd and curator Marianne Mulvey will consider their shared interests in socially engaged or participatory art projects.
WITTA (Writing In / To / Through Art) is the start of what I hope to become a fully fledged research group at UWE Bristol.

The WITTA podcast is hosted by Lizzie Lloyd and Kit Poulson Senior Lecturers in Fine Art and Art & Writing at UWE Bristol. The WITTA podcast invites guests to reflect on why they do things with words, how they do things with words and what words allow them to do that other materials don’t. Listen on for all things Art and Words. You can find us here on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Episode 1
WITTA with Catherine Parsonage:
On the fragility of words, the fixity of painting, and the joys of using literary references as starting points.
In this episode, Catherine Parsonage looks to the fragility of words – the way that words can be broken up and put back together, and carried around in our bodies – as a counterpoint to what she sees as the fixity of painting.
Keywords: painting as conversation; intensity; cliche; fragility; style; Frank O’Hara
Episode 2
WITTA with Bryony Gillard:
On the importance of reading, the challenge of writing and writing with AI
In this episode, artist Bryony Gillard talks about her shifting approach to using writing from her love of concrete poetry, ambiguity and citation to her recent interest in making writing accessible, borrowing from the narrative structure of 90s Rom-Coms.
Keywords: Writing with AI; automatic writing; citation; structure; collage; precision; rom-com; translation
Episode 3
WITTA with Wood and Harrison:
On voice, writing lists, timing and finding systems to make decisions for you.
In this episode, we speak to artists John Wood and Paul Harrison about making sculpture with language, developing systems for making art with words, and the power of playing with expectations.
Keywords: diagrams; instruction; subtitles; caption; joke; punchline; accents; sports commentary; grammar; editing; sign

WITTAnights are a place for showing, reading, listening and trying things out.

Calling all artists who write, writers who art(!) and everything in between: tell us more about your work.

The WITTA podcast – hosted by Lizzie Lloyd and Kit Poulson – invites guests to reflect on why they do things with words, how they do things with words and what words allow them to do that other materials don’t.

Through various WITTA events, working with participants and collaborators within and beyond the university, questions have emerged.

This WITTAfilm was made from interviews and materials gathered at an informal week-long creative residency / experiment called WITTAverse.

In July 2023, WITTAverse happened. It was a week-long event which involved a range of artists, writers, composers, and students.

Members of the Ways of Writing in Art & Design (WoW) network, which is housed within the Visual Culture Research Group, have written and guest edited the first of two special issues of the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice.

Invitation to work as part of a research group devised by artists Beverley Carruthers and Wiebke Leister, which investigates contemporary modes of collaborative image-text-production.

Freya Dooley and Cinzia Mutigli’s ongoing collaboration spans writing, performance, sound and moving image.

In this inaugural event we invite Polly Barton and Daniela Cascella to discuss translation, relationships between art, writing and sound, and what it means to write between disciplines.

This evening of conversation with artist Katy Beinart, writer Lizzie Lloyd and curator Marianne Mulvey will consider their shared interests in socially engaged or participatory art projects.
WITTA (Writing In / To / Through Art) is the start of what I hope to become a fully fledged research group at UWE Bristol.