Mah Rana
Based in the UK, Mah Rana is a practising artist, researcher, and writer working across the fields of design, the arts, well-making, creative health, creativity and dementia, and health psychology.
Mah teaches at the Royal College of Art on the MA in Jewellery and Metal, and MFA Arts and Humanities.
As an ongoing body of work, Jewellery is Life highlights the ways we use jewellery to mark occasions and events, significant or the everyday. This includes Meanings and Attachments (2001-present) a global project creating a written and audio-visual record of people’s personal connections to the jewellery that they wear. To date over 2,000 people have taken part across 11 countries. Host venues for ‘Meanings and Attachments’ include Tate Britain, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Foment de Les Arts Decoratives, Barcelona, Röhsska Museum, Göteborg, and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. The most recent event and outdoor exhibition of photography and accompanying text was at Now Gallery, Greenwich in 2020-2021.www.meaningsandattachments.com
Cross-disciplinary collaborative practice is a key aspect of Mah’s creative practice and writing, and she has worked with a diverse cohort of peers including policymakers, community networkers and participants, public funding programmes, National Health Service partners, and arts, culture and heritage partners.
Knitting with My Mother (2020) and One Day When We Were Young (2016) explore the lived experiences of care, co-creativity, and social-making as a way of contributing to the world.
Rana, M. (2016), One Day When We Were Young
(Digital Film: https://vimeo.com/180566371). London
Rana. M and Smith, J.A., (2020), Knitting with my mother: Using Interpretative Phenomenological
Analysis and Video to investigate the lived experience of dyadic crafting. In: Shercliff & Twigger-Holroyd (eds.) Stitching Together: Journal of Arts and Communities, Bristol, Intellect https://doi.org/10.1386/jaac_00014_1
Mah Rana mentors Denise Callan
Mah with camera 2019
Based in the UK, Mah Rana is a practising artist, researcher, and writer working across the fields of design, the arts, well-making, creative health, creativity and dementia, and health psychology.
Mah teaches at the Royal College of Art on the MA in Jewellery and Metal, and MFA Arts and Humanities.
As an ongoing body of work, Jewellery is Life highlights the ways we use jewellery to mark occasions and events, significant or the everyday. This includes Meanings and Attachments (2001-present) a global project creating a written and audio-visual record of people’s personal connections to the jewellery that they wear. To date over 2,000 people have taken part across 11 countries. Host venues for ‘Meanings and Attachments’ include Tate Britain, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Foment de Les Arts Decoratives, Barcelona, Röhsska Museum, Göteborg, and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. The most recent event and outdoor exhibition of photography and accompanying text was at Now Gallery, Greenwich in 2020-2021.www.meaningsandattachments.com
Cross-disciplinary collaborative practice is a key aspect of Mah’s creative practice and writing, and she has worked with a diverse cohort of peers including policymakers, community networkers and participants, public funding programmes, National Health Service partners, and arts, culture and heritage partners.
Knitting with My Mother (2020) and One Day When We Were Young (2016) explore the lived experiences of care, co-creativity, and social-making as a way of contributing to the world.
Rana, M. (2016), One Day When We Were Young
(Digital Film: https://vimeo.com/180566371). London
Rana. M and Smith, J.A., (2020), Knitting with my mother: Using Interpretative Phenomenological
Analysis and Video to investigate the lived experience of dyadic crafting. In: Shercliff & Twigger-Holroyd (eds.) Stitching Together: Journal of Arts and Communities, Bristol, Intellect https://doi.org/10.1386/jaac_00014_1
Mah Rana mentors Denise Callan
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