I have a visual text / poem included in the World Book Night 2026 exhibition at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol open from Thursday 2nd April to Friday 31st July 2026. The theme or prompt for the submissions was ‘The Mountains are Calling,’ and artists were asked to send works up to A5 in size, that responded to the prompt. We were also asked for texts or works that could be added to a growing bibliography of ‘mountainish’ texts.
My landscape text is on the right in this image from the installation. (Photo by Marian Kilpatrick) More information can be found here: https://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/wbn2026/
I have been selected to be part of the eighth interation of The Cornwall Workshop which will take place from 13 to 20 March 2026 and will be led by Norwegian artist Ane Hjort Guttu, who works in a variety of media but has in recent years mainly concentrated on film and video works, ranging from investigative documentary to poetic fiction.
This workshop aims to look into methodologies of learning and teaching within the arts, the current status of art education, and the processes involved in mentoring, whether of students or of fellow artists.
The Cornwall Workshop is a weeklong intensive residential workshop for artists, curators and writers, organised by CAST and hosted by Kestle Barton on the Lizard peninsula. It provides a space for discussion, debate and the sharing of ideas and encourages critical feedback and collaboration. The list of particpants and their biographies is here.
The Scores Project presents 11 works or projects initiated between 1953 and 1975, that used scores within their realisation, their dissemination, their presentation, or their documentation. These scores are accompanied by contextualising essays and digitised copies of printed, audio, and video material in a web environment that mixes archive, essay collection, anthology and exhibition. Each key work is represented by multiple items including photographs, video clips, notebooks, correspondence, publicity materials, as well as drawings, notations, diagrams, instructions and other forms by which the score is presented.
The publication [aims] to find better ways to share and educate audiences about these complex and untidy works. These are works that in library or conservation terms involves bits of paper, cards, grainy video recordings, notes and sketches. Digital technology and an online platform allow readers and viewers to engage with these in new ways, and to encounter them in the context of framing essays and scholarship.
