Where is Home?

In this lunchtime talk, studio resident Simon Moreton will reflect on his book, WHERE?, creative non-fiction about growing up in the countryside in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the processes of grief and reflection that helped him tackle questions of belonging and home, as well as thinking critically about how we imagine and represent the countryside.

In 2017, Simon’s father fell suddenly ill and died, an event which sent Simon back to his childhood home in rural Shropshire. He wrote a memoir about the experience called WHERE? (published by Little Toller Books in 2021) which combines prose, illustration, photos, and archival texts. It weaves a gentle story that slips and slides in time and geography, creating connections across geographies, histories, families, times, and circumstance all to answer the question – ‘where are you from?’

About Simon

Simon is an artist and writer. He is the author of Now is the Time to Know Everything (2023) a book about the bewildering excitement of pregnancy and the heartbreak of miscarriage, written in the form of a love letter to a person who never quite came to be. His experimental memoir WHERE? (Little Toller, 2021) documents the unexpected links between landscape, grief, and childhood that appeared in the aftermath of his father’s death in 2017. He is the producer of numerous zines of prose, poetry and pictures, including his regular series of writing and pictures documenting his life, Minor Leagues. He is a Pervasive Media Studio resident and Associate Professor of Creative Economies at UWE Bristol.