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The Archive Belongs to Us
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Autograph -
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London
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Call for Papers: Encounters in the Archive
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Archive
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Online -
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December 16, 2024 -
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January 08, 2025 -
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Across UK
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Radical Self-Compassion: Sharing Personal Archives Through Assemblage Art
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Archive
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198 | Contemporary Arts & Learning (TBC) -
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November 29, 2024 -
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December 01, 2024 -
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London
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Exhibition
A Private Land Art Lab
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Archive
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The MUSE -
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October 28, 2023 -
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October 29, 2023 -
Location:
Wales
Blog Post
A Private Land at Talgarth Festival
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
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
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
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
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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Archives, Records and Power
“We can rely on our own archival body,” Marcia Michael.
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Glenside Hospital Museum
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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Members’ Events: disrupted pattern, overlooked lace, festive art quiz
This week’s selection includes exhibitions and events in Coventry, Bristol, Eastbourne and London – all taken from our busy Events section featuring events and shows posted by a-n members.
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Photographs from Another Place: The Engagements
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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Treasures of the Canal
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Archive
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Newark Park -
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September 21, 2019 -
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November 03, 2019 -
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South West England
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Exhibition
Tales of the Unexpected
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Archive
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One Paved Court -
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June 19, 2019 -
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June 30, 2019 -
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London
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Photographs From Another Place: An Introduction
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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Members’ Events: reimagining archives, animating conflict, ice reports from the High Arctic
Selected from a-n’s busy Events section, featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n members, this week’s selections are from London, Birmingham, Totnes, and Farsley Village in West Yorkshire.
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New Art360 archiving app launched: “We want to empower artists to shape the stories about their art”
The new app is produced by the Art360 Foundation with support from DACS and is available to download for free from iTunes and Google Play.
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A Q&A with… Onyeka Igwe, artist filmmaker exploring resistance to colonialism
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
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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Li-E Chen: Research, New York, Exploring my “Thinking Postures” of Life and Art
Li-E Chen, Research, New York | 12 – 22 December 2017 On two artists who both work with Silence: Robert Wilson and Tehching Hsieh Four Days to Robert Wilson’s archives in NYC Two Visits to Tehching Hsieh’s studio in NYC One Day to […]
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Exhibition
The Landscape of Time
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Archive
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The Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church -
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January 13, 2018 -
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March 29, 2018 -
Location:
London
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A shocking realisation after constant looking
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
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
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