WEEK 5 Recap We began with self-directed warm up and improvisation and a short reflection on the accumulation of skills and ideas over the previous sessions. A brief exercise was introduced, with us in groups of three assuming the roles […]
Time Can Be A Villain or a Friend, Hank Willis Thomas, 2009 The initial use of the bursary has funded me to travel to London, where Owen and the gallery space are based. Being based in Plymouth, finding the time and […]
A blog documenting new work by Beth Emily Richards and Owen G Parry, funded by an a-n artist bursary 2018.
A blog by artist Owen G. Parry, recipient of an a-n Professional Development Bursary 2018 to enable dialogues and collaboration with Plymouth based Artist Beth Emily Richards around their mutual fascination with fandoms, alt-communities and Michael Jackson’s Penis.
I meet up with Felicity in her studio in Chelsea, New York. She talks about dismay of daily news of Trump reversing previous pro-ecological measures. She is keen for us to meet up with people in the Montauk area who […]
I’m on my way to the USA (thank you a-n Artist Bursary!) and this is the view out of the window twenty minutes before I land. It’s Montauk Point, the most easterly point of Long Island, and where Felicity and […]
Felicity and I want to keep this project fairly open at the moment so that we can respond to both the coastal sites in Suffolk UK and USA and see what material emerges. It is helpful to be working collaboratively […]
Felicity and I review our images, film and field notes from the past week. We have a lot of overlap; I think we tend to be drawn to the same visual imagery even without discussion. So we set about sifting […]
I woke up this morning feeling restless; I still haven’t found a way in to the Bosnian community. I had started to sense that perhaps they have settled in a particular part of Utica, where all the restaurants seem to […]
The next day, we take another boat across to the Ness, this time with Orfordness Lighthouse Trust to visit the Lighthouse. The Lighthouse was decommissioned in 2013 by Trinity House. Although the building is Grade II listed, the remoteness of location, […]
A blog documenting a research trip, Summer 2018, investigating the contemporary legacies of Polish underground printing.
This was the open question that I put in an email following our first meeting with the Artist Working Group. It’s a question that has come in and out of my awareness since. I continue in the email to say that […]
Images courtesy of the artist and Samuel Mercer. The Artist Working Group went to Whitstable Biennial as an expanded meeting of sorts. This idea of leaving London, going on tour and seeing other artists’ work, to me suggested gaining a perspective on what the group was, […]
Image courtesy of the artist. July 2018 meeting place: The Serpentine Lido, Hyde park. We knew the Lido would be closed by the time we met, but perhaps meeting in a place that has another purpose feels more comfortable? It also plants […]
Is there something flawed about me writing on my own? When do I use the words I and we? When do I say they as if it’s their experience I am able to talk about? But it seems that even in groups, it is flawed to think […]
Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s ‘The London Mastaba’, 2016-18 Image courtesy of the artist. In July 2018 the Artist Working Group met on the grass in Hyde Park, next to the serpentine Lido. For quite a lot of the meeting we talked about […]
Image credit: Olga Koreleva On June 30th, I facilitated ‘In Circles, Around Tables’, an event at the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens, London. The event took the form of a series of three fishbowl conversations. The format was used as a […]
When I first started thinking about starting the AWG, I secretly hoped that the locations in which we met would have an impact, such that the meetings become just as much about ‘how do we use this space?’ and ‘how […]
Welcome to my blog where I will be writing about my residency at The Fabrication Laboratory in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster supported by A-N Artist Development Fund which I begun in […]
Praised as “the town that loves refugees” in a 2005 issue of Refugees, a periodical publication of the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees, Utica appears to be a unique city. From those I have spoken to in the last few […]
A sculpture residency engaging with Utica’s refugee community
Joshua Leon If I was to say i knew the outcome of anything in the process i would be wrong. But that is what becomes so meaningful. Uncertainty and the figuring out of uncertainty is explanatory. As each week goes […]
The day arrives when we can take the ferry onto Orford Ness. Entry and movement around the Ness is strictly controlled to protect the marshland and shingle habitat, and to avoid the public finding unexploded ordnance left from successive testing […]
The next day, we walked from Aldeburgh to the northern end of Orford Ness by Slaughden. Here, the distance between the North Sea shingle shore and the marsh of the River Alde is a matter of metres. We saw a […]
