Just spent a few days on Uto, the outermost island amongst 50,000 in the Finnish Turku Archipelago. I was there with a group of artists from the Frontiers in Retreat network and students and professors from Aalto University and Helsinki University of the Arts. On the long ferry journey I ran a workshop on ‘Viking…
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Remote Performances in Nature and Architecture
Remote Performances in Nature and Architecture is published at the beginning of October. It explores the relationship between place and creativity, with contributions from twenty-one artists and writers.
Writing at the Castle – postscript
Just returned from running a one day workshop for writers on writing with place, maps and objects at the fabulous 13th century castle of Sainte-Mere in south west France. The walled castle site with its tranquil gardens was a perfect environment to talk about how we write with a place, and to generate new pieces…
New book on portraits of Renaissance artists
My review of Maria Loh’s fascinating book Still Lives, on portraits and self-portraits of Renaissance artists, was recently published in Times Higher Education.
REMOTE PERFORMANCES – Radio Broadcasts from the Scottish Highlands
The last two days of the Remote Performances broadcasts are today and tomorrow 12-4.30pm on: http://radioplayer.resonancefm.com/console/ Twenty artists have been working in Glen Nevis in the Scottish Highlands, making new work and presenting live radio broadcasts every afternoon. The project is documented at: http://www.remoteperformances.co.uk/ And my daily blogs are at: http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/projects/remote-performances-online/ So far the broadcasts have…
REMOTE PERFORMANCES Radio Broadcasts from the Scottish Highlands this week daily 12-4pm
Read the Blog and Listen In: http://www.remoteperformances.co.uk/ Twenty artists are working in Glen Nevis in the Scottish Highlands all this week and presenting live radio broadcasts every afternoon. With writers from Lochaber and beyond, I will be presenting a live slot on Thursday 7 August between 1pm and 1.30pm. We are examining the relationship between…
REMOTE PERFORMANCES
London Fieldworks and Resonance104.4fm present REMOTE PERFORMANCES New artworks made for radio and broadcast live from Outlandia 4- 9August 2014 http://www.remoteperformances.co.uk Remote Performances is a collaboration between artists London Fieldworks and Resonance104.4fm, (the world’s first art radio station). For one week in August 2014, 20 specially commissioned artist performances and programmes created with local residents…
Almodis Reader Comments
Have received some wonderful feedback from readers of Almodis, such as: Dear Tracey Warr, I would like to complain: I started reading your novel in the bath and hours later realised that I’d read a third of the novel, was still in the bath, and I was freezing cold.
Almodis: The Peaceweaver Extract
Prologue Roccamolten Castle, La Marche November 1037 I stand on the precipice wrapped in bulky grey and silver furs. My eyes are trained, like a hawk at hunt, on the steep road snaking up the mountain towards me. I feel the bitter cold of the granite ledge through the thin leather of my shoes, and…
Writing Almodis
Paolo Ucello, The Hunt in the Forest, 1470, Ashmolean Museum, inspired my description of Almodis on a deer hunt. ORIGINS When I enrolled on the MA Creative Writing at Trinity St David, University of Wales three years ago, the last thing I expected to produce was an historical novel. I imagined I would develop the…
Tracey Warr Writing 