
Svalbard // Artist Bursary 2018
I travelled to Longyearbyen, Svalbard, for a three-week research and development residency.
I travelled to Longyearbyen, Svalbard, for a three-week research and development residency.
How and why I do what I do in paint and in drawing.
A blog chronicling participation in the Letterpress Workers International Summit 2018 in Milan, supported by a bursary from a-n The Artists Information Company.
The micro-organisation Somewhere (just me & Nina Pope, usually) is now three years into an epic programme of distribution and engagement work with our feature film, The Closer We Get, which premiered in spring 2015 at Hot Docs in Canada […]
A Technical Report on Drawing as Octochronoplasmantic Evidence || Meta-Neuronic Design for Impossible Theatres
I am an artist and curator based in Brighton. http://caitlinheffernan.co.uk
A 2 week residency in September 2018 with SERDE in Latvia, exploring the Cold War legacy through the environment, people and objects. Film making will be the medium of choice.
A little introduction to me, and my plan for developing a new website during the a-n Artist Bursary period.
My first ever Art Blog outlines events within the last 6 months that changed my whole perspective on being a Visual Artist.
I am delighted to have been chosen as one of the recipients of the AN Professional Development Bursaries 2018. This blog will act as a visual diary following the stages of exploring the relationship between image making and the 3d form within my sculptural practice.
A digital archive of my residency at Ritherdon & Co – a manufacturer in Darwen- to produce a commission for The National Festival of Making that took place in Blackburn on the 12th and 13th May 2018.
Scents of Our Time aims to reveal the capacity contemporary candle making has for social comment and responsive creative action.
Securing a place on the a-n Visual Arts coaching course was the nudge I needed to propel me into an area of artist development that has great meaning to me.
Fruit Routes hosted by artist activists Anne-Marie Culhane and Paul Conneally.You are invited to share ideas for individual, collaborative and institutional action towards a more sustainable life through space to imagine and reflect, walks, conversation and sharing food and drink
This blog documents a self-initiated, studio-based project of artist development as a response to a rejection to a mentoring scheme.
Initiated by visual artist Sam Williams and lead by choreographer Joe Moran, Containers is a series of workshops for artists, writers, curators and researchers with an interest in the choreographic and a desire to incorporate movement and somatics into their […]
In 2016 I finalised production of ‘Niolam Ja Se Kochaneczke’ video, which was the first work in which I looked into potentialities of Eastern European queer utopias, while investigating the relationship between history, ‘national values’ and power structures. Through the work I revisited […]
Curator Gayle Rogers reflects on the challenges of selecting work that may shock…
Blog about the work I am doing for a commission from Dover District Council to create an artist’s film and a series of drawings/monotypes resulting from my research into the history of Russell Gardens in Dover and its current use as a social space of work and recreation.
Part one of a series of blog posts documenting my research visit to the Finish Bioarts Society.
This blog will chart my wet plate collodian journey. I am very excited to have been awarded the Professional Development bursary in order to learn this process, and gain the skills (and confidence!) in order to create a project using […]
My practice explores the potential for prosthetic’s which are made with aesthetic considerations in mind. My work began with the idea of bespoke prosthetic’s which are perceived, both by their wearer and observers, as aesthetically pleasing objects as well as being functional.
Shouldn’t Throw Stones – The view of a Night Watchman is an exhibition, tour and book publication documenting artist Kevin Casey’s role as a Night Watchman at the Ex Pilkington Glass HQ in St Helens.
This blog documented my 2018 A-n Bursary – a research visit to New York & Miami to explore the expansion of modernist architecture from Europe to the USA via Oceanliners. I am now extending this research in the UK for a site specific artwork at Georges Dock, Liverpool, Sept 2019.
If the general definition of a ‘weed’ is taken to be ‘a plant in the wrong place’ or ‘a plant growing where it is not wanted’, what then is the right place for a plant to grow? Project: The Ragwort […]