Since moving house last summer, I was a bit unsure about how to manage the peer mentoring group now that I was no longer living in London. I wondered whether it might be best to coordinate the meetings around the school […]
On my first day walking around Oslo waiting to find the accommodation, I had a discussion with a shopkeeper about snow. I was hoping to experience the famous Norwegian snow covered landscape. Growing up in the UK in the West […]
Brann Sjel (Fire Soul): A Norwegian name for someone who is an agent for change. Notes from our meeting with Professor Karen O’Brien, department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo. ‘How can we adapt to the reality of climate […]
While in Oslo, outside of the meetings we are having, I’m spending some time going on guided walks….guided by my 21 month old Son. I have come here with my Partner, Robin, and our Son, Yves. We will be working […]
Friday Arriving late, first impressions; conversations into the early morning, exchanging ideals and theories, plotting courses to follow for the journey ahead. Oh, it’s cold, it’s expensive, but it’s so clean! Journey? 1st time on an artist residence, so some […]
The opportunity to think about the world we live in was interesting in visiting Oslo in Norway for 4 days. As part of the treeline project initiated and set up by Jaime Jackson this was an interesting opportunity to make […]
Björk has always been ahead of her time and it was no different when she named her album ‘Biophilia’ – the love of nature – leaving me trailing behind flying my biophilic flag six years later as I join the […]
My first foray into film-making and something of a DIY venture it has to be said. I’ve been writing quite a bit lately, from fiction and poetry to various musings on various topics. This piece began as a reflection on […]
Work developed as a result of my growing interest in an underlying connectedness, holding an affinity with Huxley’s view of ancient Chinese landscapes as metaphors for the ‘Antipodes of the mind.’ Research and influences included: Expressionism, colour theory, Jung, Richard Wilhelm, […]
The project I undertook with help from an A-N travel bursary, allowed me firstly to explore parts of Finland I had not yet been to, this was one of the main reasons for its undertaking. I secondly wanted to put myself […]
While in the US, I had the chance to feed my fascination with all things morbid by visiting some extraordinary sites and exhibitions. In New York, I spent a day visiting the glorious Morbid Anatomy Museum. Founded in 2014 by […]
The Fellowship came at a frightening time, politically. In the UK, the Brexit debacle had just happened, and in the US we were in the final months of the US Presidential election, which would deliver a victory for Donald Trump. […]
While on the Fellowship I spent a lot of time in the various thrift/charity shops in the area. The sheer waste of consumer culture was on full display in these sprawling stores, which were themselves outnumbered exponentially by the retail […]
While working with the laser, I began to consider the most commonly touched item in most people’s lives – the screen of their mobile phone. I took a deep breath and stuck my old mobile into the laser and discovered […]
It wasn’t on my a-n project proposal, in fact it’s out of the blue, but the current editor of Printmaking Today, Leonie Bradley invites me to speak at Cork Printmakers‘ symposium about the periodical from a reader’s perspective. The symposium […]
Following the first of three workshops in the 2017-18 a-n Writer Development Programme, the participants were asked to write an 800-word piece informed by seeing the current show at the gallery: Kim Yong-Ik’s ‘I Believe My Works Are Still Valid’. […]
What to expect when you visit us this year
A weekly briefing featuring national and international news, including: Louvre opens in Abu Dhabi; former Stedelijk Museum director Beatrix Ruf claims she resigned over a ‘misunderstanding’.
Each time I explored an area of train tracks in search of clothing, I took a camera and a light. I had not done this before as I normally collect clothes without recording the environment. The decision to do this […]
Hi, I recently completed a commission for a public sculpture in London. The work is a permanent feature but there has not been any contract signed highlighting the specifics of ownership and maintenance f.eks. Is there a template contract that is […]
With help from the A-N Travel Bursary, I traveled to Monterrey in Northern Mexico, where I co-ran a four day workshop in one of Mexico’s main Museums of Contemporary Art, MARCO, with artist Marysa Dowling http://www.marysadowling.co.uk/ The workshop was titled […]
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section and including exhibitions in Bristol, Dorset, Lancaster, London and Southport.
Five visual artists have received ‘no-strings-attached’ individual awards of £60,000 each in the annual Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists.
