Notes on Bilbao and surrounding area. It is warmer but rains a lot in Bilbao than Vitoria, where it is icy and snowy… and transport links from the airport really easy and cheap. Meet someone from Technarte – http://www.technarte.org – […]
We are visiting Vitoria-Gastiez, a Biophilic city like Birmingham, Green Capital of Europe in 2012, Bilbao and San Sebastián. For artist research and to build a network of academics, artists, arts organisations, government offices and environmental bodies. We have had […]
Frosty and hot hot flowers in Oslo. Oslo Arriving in the City on a late Saturday afternoon, already dark and the cold hits my cheek. First cup of tea – a huge earl grey with a stick And a toilet […]
PNEK (Production Network for Electronic Art, Norway) is a national network for electronic, digital and inter-disciplinary art. Supporting a series of exhibition spaces and workshop laboratories funded by Arts Council Norway. Providing artists and organisations with project development, workshops and delivery. […]
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 […]