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A Private Land at Talgarth Festival

by Penny Hallas, Penny Hallas

Participants at the workshops at Brecon & District Mind told us about a tiny but packed museum in the Old Post Office in Talgarth which they thought would have artifacts relating to A Private Land. So we made a visit […]

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a-n Artists Bursaries 2022-23

by Sheree Mack, Sheree Mack

I took a chance and shared a vision. I took a chance and trusted the process I took a chance and believed in myself. The result was being awarded an a-n Artists Bursaries 2022-23. And I am well pleased and […]

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A Private Land at Powys Archives

by Susan Adams

In mid-March Penny Hallas and I went to Powys Achives in Llandrindod Wells to see some of their extensive archive relating to the Mid-Wales Hospital, Talgarth. Weeks after our visit we are still moved and inspired by the images, reports […]

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A Private Land at Powys Archives

by Penny Hallas, Penny Hallas

In mid-March Susan Adams and I went to Powys Achives in Llandrindod Wells to see some of their extensive archive relating to the Mid-Wales Hospital, Talgarth. Weeks after our visit we are still moved and inspired by the images, reports […]

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Glenside Hospital Museum

by Susan Adams

Before our decision to work together on (A)Private Land, we knew the Glenside Hospital Museum housed an fascinating collection mostly relating to the history of mental health care and specifically Glenside Hospital, set within the grounds of the buildings which opened […]

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Glenside Hospital Museum

by Penny Hallas, Penny Hallas

Before our decision to work together on A Private Land, we knew the Glenside Hospital Museum housed a fascinating collection mostly relating to the history of mental health care and specifically Glenside Hospital, set within the grounds of the buildings […]

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Photographs from Another Place: The Engagements

by Alan Ward

After a hectic summer and autumn of engagement events on the Wirral, I am now just two weeks away from the exhibition opening at the Williamson Art Gallery – 7 December 2019 – 2 February 2020.

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Photographs From Another Place: An Introduction

by Alan Ward

This will be an ongoing blog around a five-year personal project I’ve obsessively researched, based around a rediscovered family photographic archive. It will culiminate in an exhibition and interventions at the end of 2019 at The Williamson Art Gallery & Museum.

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A Q&A with… Onyeka Igwe, artist filmmaker exploring resistance to colonialism

by Sonya Dyer

London-based artist Onyeka Igwe has mined colonial-era archives for three new films inspired by all-women protests against British rule in west Africa, currently showing together in the solo exhibition ‘No Dance, No Palaver’, in Hawick, Scotland. She discusses the spectre of the ‘colonial gaze’ and the ethics of archive research with Sonya Dyer.

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Blogger Q&A: Katarzyna Perlak, artist queering folk tradition

by Richard Taylor

Katarzyna Perlak is this month’s featured artist on a-n’s Instagram. Her practice uses archival research and her own experience to apply queer and feminist readings to Eastern European history and tradition. Richard Taylor speaks to Perlak about her video and collage works.

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A shocking realisation after constant looking

by Dawn Cole

I have been trying out a different approach to researching in the archives. Rather than spending my time reading and studying at the Cathedral I have been photographing the items and then reading and studying them at home and in […]

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Fracturing of Identity

by Dawn Cole

Following on from my visit to the archives last week I have been spending time in my studio looking through the Admissions and Discharge Book for Dane John VAD Hospital. The book records 101 wounded men from 1916 -1918 and […]

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Artist in Residence – The Canterbury Journey

by Dawn Cole

The Canterbury Journey is Canterbury Cathedral’s 5 year conservation project. This blog records the experience, research and work of Dawn Cole during her year long term as Artist in Residence in the Cathedral Archives for the Canterbury Jouney

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