Click links to get the actual words. Audio being added as I can
Many of my more visual art pieces include my words – but if its mainly visual, it’s included in the art section
Head, shoulders, knees and toes … and eyes and ears and mouth and nose
Second PRIZE winner for KCL/RNIB creative writing competition
2023:
Hottest Day: Dexter’s One Minute Wonder 2023. Resonance Radio.
Theatre Deli social model theatre festival curator:
– My opening presentation
– podcast 4: with fionnathan on interdependence
– podcast 3: with Ashok Mitra on intersectionality
– podcast 2: with Jodie Russell on how disability – and Madness – is not binary
– podcast 1: with Jan Grue on grief and stigma
– and lots of writing for the website / invitations
2022:
Lest We Forget: Real-life performance at Cockpit Theatre of a piece I wrote / directed as part of Theatre Director Pathways training by Extant.
2021:
I’m in a Cage: sound piece. Commissioned by Dexter Bentley, for Resonance Radio
Pillars and Mirrors: My text and photo work on urban trees was commissioned as part of In the Meantime with Royal College of Arts/CCA
– 7 June: On Resonance Radio about my Tree Pillars.
2020:
– Late October: Un)forgotten Flora: Online film exhibition under the “Creativity from HOME” experimental residency curated by Co-iki.
I researched, wrote text and created films on Lemon Trees, and the Persian Oak.
See my overall summary film here.
-Between 30 Sept-4 Oct: On Ancient Earth: Artist talk at webinar / live event in Alice Springs, Australia, as part of Desert Festival Australia
July: Third Wave: Documentary Video about inequalities and Covid-19:
– Special award for Covid Critique. Plus: Runner up in Bertha Dochouse competition.
– 22 July: Interviewed on Resonance 104.4 FM about this film and my installation. https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/smashing-records-22-july-2020-carolin
1 July: One artist’s experience of the lockdown. Current practice and case studies. Arts, Health and Wellbeing Special Interest Group Newsletter, Royal Society pf Public Health, 2020: 1/3;8
March-June 2020: Safe as Houses: #isolationcreation installation with multiple 3-d and collage art pieces crammed in my front room. Images on @caromawer .
– 30 May: Malfunction: A One-Minute-Wonder sound piece broadcast by Dexter Bentley
Dec 19-Jan 20: A little rest: Short story shown as part of A Crash Course in Cloudspotting: With my rest recorded on an app and shown in an exhibition of lighting effects.
2019:
How Can We Make Out-of-Hospital CPR More Family Centered?
AMA Journal of Ethics https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-can-we-make-out-hospital-cpr-more-family-centered/2019-05
May 2019: Deathbed Skiing, Tara Arts, Wandsworth Arts Fringe:
– Director and Producer. I wrote the words (which I performed), created digital art, sourced video, and organised tech support and funding. I also choreographed a professional dancer for one section; and sourced live music for the interludes.
– All starting on the side of a mountain, and ending in a Luscious Fruiting Forest of Dreams
2018:
Dec 2017 – Jan 2018: Participant in workshops and multiple performances at the Showroom Gallery following Dawn Breaks
Each participant directed, acted and set-designed our own productions, culminated in Free Flow Fictioning:
I worked on ‘How we see Beauty’, as well as the beginnings of Deathbed Skiing
2015:
Patients deserve to be consulted about end-of-life options
Prize comment in BMA News Review, 16 May 2015.
They even drew me a specific cartoon (involving a meteorite!).
When and how to discuss ‘DNR’ decisions with patients?
Rapid response to BMJ article. BMJ 2015;350:h2640
http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2640/rr-3
No easy answers in the assisted dying debate
Letter published in The Times, 6 April 2015.
2014:
Never Again
A short story for Dying Matters. Highly Commended.
Assisted Dying could contribute to better deaths in England and Wales
Rapid response to BMJ editorial. BMJ 2014; 349:g4349
http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g4349/rr/759849
CPR can be futile – and is sometimes worse
Editors Choice. BMJ 2014; 348:g4180
http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g4180/rr/759532
Air pollution in Iran, BMJ 2014; 348: g1586
Tutor for ISEA Programme at Leighton House: Collecting and Display of Islamic Art. Lecturing on the 1910 Munich exhibition; the 1931 Burlington House exhibition; and Poland as a portal for ‘oriental’ trading in the seventeenth century. Oct-Dec 2014.
2012:
An Armenian Merchant and the Vasa Tapestries. Presentation at Warwick University conference: Global Commodities: The Material Culture of Early Modern Connections, 1400-1800. 12-14 December 2012
Imagined geographies of Isfahan. Presentation at 11th International Conference on Urban History, European Association for Urban History, held in Prague, Czech Republic on 29 August to 1 September 2012
Polish Relations: the Vasa Silk Kilims, Hali 172 Summer 2012. About a carpet-buying trip to Iran from Poland in 1601
2011:
Shah Abbas and the Pilgrimage to Mashhad, Iran 2011 XLIX 123-47
Three British Ladies in Bakhtiariland, Asian Affairs 2011 XLII No.1 28-48
Travelling in Safavid Persia: Following in the footsteps of Don Garcia de Silva y Figueroa. Book chapter in: Estudos sobre Don Garcia de Silva y Figueroa e os “Comentarios” da embaixada a Persia (1614-1624). Vol 4. CHAM. Lisboa 2011
2009:
How to build a mosque: a lecture on the construction of the Sulemaniye mosque in Istanbul. Rumi Centre, London. 3 Dec 2009
Lecturer and Course designer: Birkbeck University / British Museum. Jan-April 2009. Shah Abbas the Great: the splendour of power.
Shah Abbas the Great: tracing the 1000km walk from Isfahan to Mashhad, Journal of the Iran Society 2009. 2 No.8 7-23.
With verbal report on 2008 Iran Society Travel Award. 21 Apr 2009
The 1601 walk of Shah Abbas from Isfahan to Mashhad. E-publication following a CIERA séminaire international. Caravansérails et routes caravanières: Etat des savoirs et inventaires. 25 et 26 juin 2009. Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris Val-de-Seine.
British museum gallery talk: Islamic tiles in context: from Iranian buildings to the British Museum. 16 May 2009
MA, Islamic Art & Architecture:
School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London, 2006 – 2009
Grade: Distinction
My dissertation was a case study approach to methodological approaches to Safavid ceramics. I also worked in detail on transmission of design in Ottoman architecture; the provincial architecture of Bayezid II; Islamic art exhibitions (1850-1931); as well as studying the anthropology of urban space, place and architecture; and the art & archaeology of the Silk Road.
2008:
Arts of Asia Certificate
Victoria & Albert Museum, 2007 – 2008
My dissertation was on Public perceptions of Islamic Art exhibitions. I also worked in detail on a cuerda seca tile from Khargerd madrese; the Fremlin carpet; and a figure of Guan Di in white porcelain
Ways to See Beauty. Platform Lecture on Islamic architecture and geometry. Winchester School of Art. 11 Dec 2008.
Oriental light. Star letter: British Archaeology 2007 Nov-Dec
2007:
Sticking together – or sticking to standards?
Editors Choice. Mawer C and Russell D. BMJ 2007;335:0
http://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/11/01/sticking-together-or-sticking-standards
The Greatness that was Parthia. Lecture Review, Vladimir G Lukonin Memorial Lecture, British Museum, London, 10 July 2007
2003:
Early abortions: promoting real choice for women
Pamphlet: Mawer C, McGovern M. Family Planning Association
2002:
Understanding African Community Organisations
Nana Ama Amamoo, Caroline Mawer, Uzoamaka Agyare-Kumi.
African Families Foundation, 2002
2001:
Comparison of the effectiveness of WHO short course chemotherapy and standard Russian antituberculous regimens in Tomsk, Western Siberia
Lancet article with commentary: R Coker, pp 434-35
C Mawer, NV Ignatenko et al. Lancet 2001; 358: 445-49
http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673601056215.pdf
1999:
Preventing teenage pregnancies, supporting teenage mothers
British Medical Journal Editorial. BMJ 1999; 318: 1713-1714