Reading Aims and Methods of Note-Taking , by Turkan Mehraj Ismailli, has prompted me to rethink what note-taking might mean within my artistic practice. Rather than understanding notes simply as preparatory material for an artwork, I am beginning to consider note-taking itself as a form of making—a live, cognitive, and material process that could be the artwork. The text frames note-taking as an active intellectual and embodied activity rather than a passive recording of info

Ways of Seeing Lauren Simons, 2025 This body of work investigates perception as an embodied, neurodivergent process. For me, drawing becomes a living record of cognition and sensation — what I have described as a kind of mind-map, a way of documenting what happens in my head as it unfolds. Rather than beginning with a predetermined outcome, the work develops through a position of not-knowing, allowing each work to emerge through chance, interruption, and iterative layering. I

My designated install space (highlighted by blue circle) is a smaller space with a large window allowing for plenty of natural light to come in. Visualising my work in the space I plan to hang the majority of the drawings on the longer wall, with a couple on the smaller wall in the back right. The artist statement will hang on the wall that juts out slightly. By starting to place the drawings into groupings, I was able to create links and connect the drawings together where o