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As I said in my last post here, I’ve been involved in conversations with Elena Thomas and Stuart Mayes about the virtues of long term blogging. Our responses to some self-initiated questions were collated and published online on the a-n […]

there are two of us on the meanwhile residency.  our time together is currently taking the form of a conversation based on what we leave in the space as a result of us being there.  today i searched out thomas’ […]

it struck me today how the 4 week duration of the meanwhile space is going to fly by.  there isn’t much room to hang about  – massive pun unintended. fitted in another visit late late last week.  in it i […]

Freud Museum The museum was Freud’s final home. His study room was famous for his psychoanalytic couch, and I found out he died in the same room. The rooms upstairs were an exhibition space, currently exhibiting 1920/2020: Freud and Pandemic. […]

It’s nearly five months since I’ve written here which means that it’s five months since someone responded to one of my tweets in which I  promoted my last blog post, alongside the image above (a detail from my ‘Sweet Nothings’ […]

I find myself playing with scale again. On the walls of the studio are large drawings with bold broad brushstrokes of ink and watercolour. The lines drawn follow the contours of drying paint puddles, and the texture of the heavy […]

A long-term, long-form blog brings many rewards… in amongst those rewards are friends that you might never have otherwise met, through conversations held online, over many years. You get to know them, and their work, and a little bit about […]

Yestarday we had another sucesfull, informative and inspiring online event. We’ve heard from BeeTime, Onyx Baird and Piotr of TreeBeekeepers Bee Time is an art and research collective creating contexts for knowledge exchange and regenerative practices inspired by the systems […]

The last day of this year’s residency. Three weeks have flown by too quickly. This is the shortest time I have spent at the Ness of Brodgar but on the other hand it is my first time away from home […]

Many hands helping with cleaning the floor for Drone photography in Structure 10. Meanwhile the cinema in a hut has been taking shape for tomorrow’s world premiere for the archaeologists. Pictures of the event tomorrow.  

Making Sounds I have always enjoyed playing with sounds, harmonising my voice with the microwave, tapping out rhythms on the table and beatboxing to myself when no one was around. I used to take a harmonica with me whenever I […]

What I like about this exhibition is that when you enter the gallery and see the entrance to the domes with the rainbow snake/ the Serpent of Paradise that weaves into the distance, then you feel you are at the […]

MVI also hosts weekly evolving programme of exhibitions within the gallery from regional and international artists responding the themes within the Multispecies Visionary Institute exhibition. more about the programme can be found here: http://www.berwickvisualarts.co.uk/whats-on/2181/sabina-sallis-multispecies-visionary-institute-slow-disturbance-exhibition-model-programme   The programme was commenced with […]

On Saturday the 17th of July we took a wonderfully informative and inspiring walk with  Mark Shipperlee, a local woodsman and permaculture designer. Mark brought along fellow well informed, passionate tree experts Abby Fowler and Dave Trafford. We looked at […]

On Thursday the 15 July,  we successfully hosted first of online events titled: ‘The Power of Plants, the Future of Earth’. Tonight we have another event: check it out/ book here: How Like a Bee with Bee Time, Treebeekeepers Brotherhood & […]