Writer in Residence at Wallace Stegner House, Aug-Sept 2024
I am currently on a month-long residency at Wallace Stegner House in Eastend, Saskatchewan. I am here to trace my grandfather’s 5 year sojourn in Western Canada. He arrived in Eastend, age 26 in Sept 1922 intending to begin a new life farming on the Canadian prairies.
Sky Sample (Homage to Yoko Ono)
I am exhibiting a new wall-based video installation in the Woolwich Open, Thames-Side Studios, June 15th-23rd.
Limited Edition Prints Available
Found Sculpture No. 2, Gozo, 2022 (40 x 50 cm)
Giclee print on Hahnemuhle paper
Edition of 8, plus 2 artist’s proofs, + certification
Published by Valletta Contemporary, Malta.
Available via Valletta Contemporary: https://www.vallettacontemporary.com/vallettacontemporary-editions
415.00 Euros
Writer- in-Residence, Wallace Stegner House, August 2024
During August 2024 I will be writer-in-residence at the Wallace Stegner House in Eastend, Saskatchewan, researching the locations and background for a semi-fictionalised account of the six years my grandfather spent in Western Canada during the early 1920’s, which began in Eastend.
Wallace Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, writer, environmentalist, and historian. His autobiographical book “Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier” (1962), describes in detail the period Stegner spent in Eastend. The house he lived in from age 7 to 12 was restored by the Eastend Arts Council in 1990 and established as a Residence for Artists.
Colloquio di Musicologia del “Saggiatore Musicale”, University of Bologna
On Saturday, November 25th, I presented a paper on my musical influences and inspirations at Colloquio di Musicologia del “Saggiatore Musicale” in the Dipartimento delle Arti, University of Bologna as part of “Audiovisioni Elettroniche: Poetiche ed Estetiche Videoarte”.
“Michael Snow: An Approachable Giant”
A special extended episode of the podcast How to Enjoy Experimental Film Special in tribute to filmmaker Michael Snow (1928-2023), focusing on four major works: “Rameau’s Nephew by Diderot Thanx to Denis Young by Wilma Schoen”, “So Is This”, “La Region Centrale” and the iconic “Wavelength”.
Featuring interviews and analyses from:
R. Bruce Elder
Nicky Hamlyn
Chris Meigh-Andrews
Jim Shedden
Steven Woloshen
With archive interviews with Michael Snow himself and Jonas Mekas.
Double Acts:
Double Acts: Collaborative Partnerships in Early Artists’ Video, An On-Line Exhibition for Rewind
Curated by Chris Meigh-Andrews
Featuring:
Brian Hoey and Wendy Brown; Madelon Hooykaas and Elsa Stansfield; The Duvet Bros (Peter Boyd Maclean and Rik Lander); Gabrielle Bown and Chris Meigh-Andrews.
22 September 2023 – 13 October 2023
Audio Interview: Desert Equinox, Broken Hill, NSW
“Track Markers”: Fingeringhoe Nature Reserve, Essex.
I am showing a new solar-powered outdoor installation Truth is a Pathless Land (for Jiddu Krishnamurty this weekend (June 23rd-25th, 2023) in “Track Markers: Contemporary Sculpture at Fingringhoe”. This work is the second in an on-going series of outdoor neon text pieces.