5th July 2018 My final visit was to Tipoteca Italiana in the town of Cornuda, Treviso province. A legendary museum amongst the typography, print and design communities, the collection and archive was established by the Grafiche Antiga print company. Realising that […]
3rd July 2018 An important part of my Italian trip was visiting the studios of other artists taking part in Letterpress Workers. Private working spaces are always fascinating: they offer valuable insights into an artist’s work and methods, which in […]
I travelled to Milan last month to participate in the Letterpress Workers International Summit, an annual gathering of letterpress practitioners. It was established in 2012 by the cultural association Officina Tipografica Novepunti (tr: Novepunti Typographic Workshop) and is now an […]
A blog chronicling participation in the Letterpress Workers International Summit 2018 in Milan, supported by a bursary from a-n The Artists Information Company.
Extending my road trip out of Los Angeles, via the Katsina collection at the Heard Museum and the Biosphere 2 project, I headed to Marfa, Texas, to see ‘Tierra Sangre Oro’ at Ballroom Marfa – an exhibition envisioned by Rafa […]
I had always hoped to visit High Desert Test Sites, and the trip coincided with HDTS 2017, a semi-annual series of roving events that bring together artists responding to Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms, and the surrounding area of high desert. […]
Started the day meeting Carmen Argote at her solo exhibition ‘Pyramids’ at Panel Los Angeles – the installation uses poor materials, ripped cardboard, coffee grounds, pine needles, to reflect upon economic mobility, labor, and the potential of sculpture as a […]
Started the day with a studio visit with Parker Ito (represented by Chateau Shatto) seeing new work in progress, chatting about his ‘Capitol Records Shit Toots’ photobook, and planning a collaboration in the UK for late 2018. Followed this up […]
After a quick visit Downtown to visit Chateau Shatto, Monte Vista Projects and DTLA, all located in the same building, I headed across to Koreatown to visit Commonwealth and Council and meet with Young Chung who heads it up. Described […]
Although not the purpose of my visit, the trip coincided with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA an exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles. Led by the Getty, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is a collaborative effort […]
A two-week research trip to L.A, supported by a 2017 Travel Bursary.
Sȯ-nə is a collaborative project between UK based artists Beth Kettel and Sean Millington. The duo share a common interest in considering and incorporating all aspects of exhibition making as artwork through working across disciplines, and through collaboration. Sȯ-nə is […]
Our time spent on Stockholm’s archipelago wasn’t as rich an experience as we had hoped in regards to being able to experience private saunas. We actually had a more successful time visiting private saunas whilst in the cities. We learnt […]
The bathing culture within the cities tended to over-complicate the simple nature discussed above, which correlates with the general ways of city vs country living in Sweden. There is a return to the luxurious over simple functionality like in the UK, […]
There are examples of a return to utilising nature and a simple harmony of function and practicality found at Ribersborgs Kallbadhusl in Malmo and Bastun i frihamnen in Gothenburg. At Ribersborgs in particular, where, firstly, you are presented with a walk […]
This is a blog documenting and describing some of our experiences researching into the Swedish bathing culture. We will try to share our take on the culture and introduce a few places that we visited and the characters that we […]
My initial idea of gauging an artists lot in Italy was beginning to seem redundant. Basically, the situation for artists, more or less, is the same the world over. We are all pursuing an ideal, a conviction or a vocation […]
The Plan of St. Gall. Switzerland. July 2017. A journey that was to continue a journey that began long ago. Or as Wittgenstein much more eloquently put it, “it is so hard to find the beginning, or rather, it is […]
It’s a brilliant time to visit Oslo, but it’s not a brilliant time to visit Oslo if you are hoping to meet a lot of Oslo artists. It’s July and ‘the whole of Oslo is on holiday in July’ as […]
I felt that I had only scratched the surface of understanding the life of artists in Norway, and so contacted a couple of people after my return to the UK, hoping that a few questions by email might fill in […]
I’d been so engrossed in Oslo, I’d forgotten to tell Elda at Galleri Svalbard when I’d be arriving, but figured that any slightly Wild North place like this would attract people who are problem-solvers and, sure enough, wonderful Elda had […]
Another thing about Norway is that, with a population of ‘only’ around 5.3 million, everyone is more likely to know everyone else. It turns out that Helen from Tenthaus knows sound artist Jana Winderen, whose work at SALT I had […]
The flight to Oslo is overcast. Through the fog I see fingers of rock fondling the sea but nothing else. I think I have the wrong ticket for the bus to town, but this seems no barrier to the bus-drivers […]
a-n Travel Bursary 2017
