Thinking Through Practice, New Ways to Record Learning: Speaking and Listening, Joint Practice Development. “I have a practice where I don’t have to speak.” Gaffney (2017) I never broke it down like that before, but I too have an art practice where I don’t speak and a teaching practice where I do a great deal of talking, discussing, reviewing, debating and counselling, non-verbal – all visual art practice, speaking and listening teaching practice. Gaffney has a point, as practicing artists and designers we sit dead silent, making, painting, drawing, designing. We don’t speak. As Emin said in her BBC Arts video, What Do Artists Do All Day ? Emin, is loath to break off from practical work to talk to accountants, “sometimes I get up in the morning and think, “I really want to paint today” and then I remember I have meeting with the accountants and it’s really important but also really dry…and it’s the last thing I want to do, it’s almost like it’s killing me, phy...