Here & Now: Artists’ Video From the UK, MuSA, Pietrasanta, Italy, Sept 2025.
“Nothing Beside Remains” was presented at MuSA:The Virtual Museum of Sculpture and Architecture, Pietrasanta, Sept 21st, 2025.
Extract of Review of “The Grandfather Paradox”
“The personal and the historical converge beautifully in Ambrose’s work, highlighting how fiction can preserve cultural memory and revive lost truths. As readers immerse themselves in this richly woven narrative, they are invited not just to witness history but to feel a part of it—heralding hope in the face of adversity and making the past […]
Chinese Translation of A History of Video Art
A Chinese translation of my book A History of Video Art (Bloomsbury, 2014) has been published by the China Pictorial Press and is now available.
Move to New Studio
This month I have moved to a new larger studio, which is not only more spacious, but has the added advantage of being on the ground floor!
Cameras installed at Down House
I spent yesterday working with Rowan Blaik head gardener at Down House, installing the outdoor cameras around the old Mulberry tree in Charles Darwin’s Garden. The four cameras, which have been mounted in strategic sites encircling the venerable tree, have been programmed to take an image every six hours, and will produce a cumulative record […]
Sunbeam
J M W Turner’s last words are supposedly ‘the sun is God’ (though this is more than likely an invention of John Ruskin’s). Whatever the actual truth of the situation Turner’s final pronouncement seems both archaic, in that it harks back to earlier periods of actual sun worship, and curiously modern, not least because it […]
EDAU International PhD Studentship
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE International PhD Scholarship The Electronic and Digital Art Unit (EDAU), School of Art Design & Performance Reference No INT-004MeighAndrews Applications are invited for a full-time scholarship available in the School of Art, Design & Performance. The scholarship is tenable for up to 3 years for a PhD (via MPhil route) [subject […]
Making Visible the Invisible: March 10th-11th
Thursday and Friday this week I attended a fascinating two-day conversational conference Making Visible the Invisible: Art, Design and Science in Data Visualisation, devised and hosted by Dr Michael Hohl at the School of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Huddersfield. The format of this conference was experimental, attempting to try out the […]
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In Darwin’s Garden: Camera Tests at Down House
On Friday, Nov 26th I spent the morning at Down house installing two cameras to begin tests at the site. A Canon EOS 5D , Mk 2 with a Pclix time-lapse device was installed in a window on the 2nd floor of the house overlooking the Mulberry tree, and an outdoor “plantcam” was set up […]