And so to begin. I haven’t looked very hard to see how other people start their blogs (with a big fanfare maybe?) but I feel this needs a little explanation.
This blog will be about the research, development and day to day processes of a four month artist-in-residence project at Chirk Castle, North Wales, which I started this month.
Chirk Castle is a 700 year old castle set in park and farmland and owned and run by the National Trust. The goal of the residency is to reflect upon and create works in response to the situation of Chirk Castle: its visitors, employees, the location (gardens, park and farmland) and to explore its associations and connections with aspects of the surrounding locality.
Another, personal goal I’ve set myself with this project is to interrogate the nature of the ‘residency’ as form of artistic practice and to question who or what initiates the residency and on whose terms it is carried out. What I’m particularly keen to do is to explore the possibility of thinking and making creatively while being employed to carry out other work – and in so doing to explore the interstice between ‘work’ and ‘practice’ in terms of ‘residency’.
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