Author: Janet Fizz Curtis

London Sculptor, Chris Kenny often uses found objects (in this case, twigs), to create works of art.  www.chriskenny.co.uk As soon as I saw these photos on Facebook, I made a mental connection with Irene Mawer and Ruby Ginner. My instant thought was ‘frieze lines’! The twigs are photographed on a

Finding information about which books Irene wrote, and when they were published, is quite difficult. My research on-line just leads me to modern companies who are re-publishing what seems to be every book in the world, at a price. Unhelpfully, all of their books are listed as having been published

In last week’s post, I spoke about Irene Mawer’s approach to creating a mime play for children (Chapter 3 of The Art of Mime). This week I look at the final segment of that chapter, which focuses on how to use a mime play as a teaching tool. This mainly

In the early 1930s, Irene Mawer wrote a book called ‘The Art of Mime’ in which she explained the history and the technique of mime. A section of the book is devoted on how to write mime plays and although Miss Mawer’s language and terminology is considered very old fashioned

Mime friends exist all around the world, and writing Irene Mawer’s biography has been especially rewarding as I have made friends with a young man called Minangka Deka, in the Assam region of India. Truth be told, until I started to write this post, I didn’t know exactly where Assam

When I was in my early twenties, I failed to realise the histories of the older people around me. After all – they were just that, old! Some thirty five years later, I now of course realise that all old people have amazing histories. They all have stories to tell,