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Venice Bienniale: The Giardini will be closing in 15 minutes (10)
A series of blogs by Exodus navigating their first Bienniale: Venice’s The Milk of Dreams
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Venice Bienniale: A summer romance in Catalonia (9)
A series of blogs by Exodus navigating their first Bienniale: Venice’s The Milk of Dreams
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Venice Bienniale: Invest in love (8)
A series of blogs by Exodus navigating their first Bienniale: Venice’s The Milk of Dreams
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Venice Bienniale: No foreplay (7)
A series of blogs by Exodus navigating their first Bienniale: Venice’s The Milk of Dreams.
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Venice Bienniale: A stranger on the train (6)
A series of blogs by Exodus navigating their first Bienniale: Venice’s The Milk of Dreams.
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Venice Bienniale: Fall into fantasy (5)
A series of blogs by Exodus navigating their first Bienniale: Venice’s The Milk of Dreams.
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Venice Bienniale: Bound to the room (4)
A series of blogs by Exodus navigating their first Bienniale: Venice’s The Milk of Dreams.
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Venice Bienniale: Best friends of the city (3)
A series of blogs by Exodus navigating their first Bienniale: Venice’s The Milk of Dreams.
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Venice Bienniale: Go to a club knowing your ex is there (2)
A series of blogs by Exodus navigating their first Bienniale: Venice’s The Milk of Dreams.
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Venice Bienniale: Lateness is the best way to start a holiday (1)
A series of blogs by Exodus navigating their first Bienniale: Venice’s The Milk of Dreams.
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What is in an hour … or three?
This morning it dawned on me that I might have had the emphasis on the wrong syllable (as my old German teacher used to say). Suppose it is not the listening to the Swedish language on the radio that is […]
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Slow Travel – A Privilege Not A Sacrifice
This was published just before the crisis, about artists using trains and sea routes to reach artists residencies. Now people are either stuck in their residencies or can’t reach them. Here are some pointers for when we can all travel again. Photo by me of Copenhagen Station.
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BUSY ON THE BOSPHORUS
It’s not every week that you get to travel with a bunch of great, friendly, broad-thinking artists to see some fantastic international contemporary art in an extraordinary city, but that’s what happened to me last week when I visited the […]
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Films on board 1930’s ocean liners at North West Film Archive
Despite being based in Manchester for 6 years, I had never visited the North West Film Archive until recently. Set up in 1977, the Archive preserves moving images made in or about Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside and Cumbria and […]
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‘trace’ – a VR poetry collaboration Blog 4 – Endings and Beginnings
This project is still very much in its infancy. So far, it has taken us through some fascinating portals, and we have yet to return — this being more of a postcard home, than a final account. By being able […]
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‘trace’ – a VR poetry collaboration – Blog 3 – Mapping The Void
Through using VR and AR to trace the boundaries between the past and our present, we began to explore the ways our own narratives are shaped, and changed, by the spaces around us, mapping our real and virtual journey through […]
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‘trace’ – a VR poetry collaboration – introductions…
“…part of what I am is the enigmatic traces of others…” (Judith Butler)
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Ocean Liners and Great Migrations
The Oceans Apart exhibition at MMU Special Collections Library was curated by Dr John Gibbons from his personal collection of items and manuscripts relating to transatlantic crossings between 1870 and 1940. John kindly met with me last week to talk […]
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Respite trip to Denmark
As a carer, it’s hard to take time out of the constant form filling, bureaucracy, mind melting stress of the health and social care crisis, but one thing I have been fortunate to achieve is respite funding to visit family. […]
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Artists’ International Delegation 2018, Budapest: Taking the train
I am so excited to say that I will be taking a train across Europe and heading for Budapest as part of an a-n / Castlefield artist delegation. I intend to blog during and after the trip as a way […]
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Speeding up
My life is on fast forward again. Well is it ever anything else? So hard to say no to any opportunity and so very conscious of time running out. ‘We only have one life so use every moment’… such a […]
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a-n Artist Bursaries 2018: 70 artists receive a share of over £65,000
Announcing the recipients of this year’s a-n Artist Bursaries which offer awards of £500-£1,000 to a-n Artist and Joint (Artist and Arts Organiser) members wishing to undertake a self-directed professional development project.
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The Beginning of Something
For my first series of paintings this year I wanted a challenge. I wanted to document and translate scenes that contain all the forms, shapes and weather conditions of our landscape. I chose Wales as my muse. From vivid green […]
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Couple dancing in rural Finland
Thanks to an A-N Travel Bursary, foundations were laid for a photographic project exploring Finland’s rich history of couple dancing. The first leg took me around South Savonia in the east of Finland and this blog is a kind of unravelling of the people and places I encountered.
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The Shed
Well I went to the inaugural Shed meeting of UOS alumni… all a bit serious but am sure it will evolve into something more lively. Have decided not to go up on stage for an expensive handshake to collect my […]