Upcoming Events
The Anglian Embassy
The Blackwater Polytechnic at The Art Station, Saxmundham. The Art Station in Saxmundham invites you to dive headfirst into a riotous, exhilarating new exhibition presented by the Blackwater Polytechnic in collaboration with the Grange Projects — two insanely imaginative collectives whose playful, hands-on spirit blasts straight through the barriers of art and expectation. Their impact far outstrips their size. No holds barred.
**Exhibition Dates** Opening Friday 3rd October
The show continues weekdays from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm and Saturdays from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm, until Saturday, October 25th.
Special Event 18th October.
Current Projects
Ambisonic (360º) field recordings of John Constable (1776 - 1839) painting locations. An exhibition, listening events and workshops will take place in 2025-26.
Mentoring sessions around sound art, music and performance with artist Kimbal Bumstead, funded by an A_N professional development bursary.
Recent Projects
A project by YoHa to celebrate the bones relocated from the uncovered graveyard at Bedlam Asylum in London, to Canvey Island in Essex. More info soon.
Countless Edens is a body of photographic work by Mark Edwards, made over the course of three years, in the house and garden of the writer Ronald Blythe. The exhibition includes a sound recording made at Ronald Blythe’s garden by artist Stuart Bowditch.
A series of mentoring sessions on sound recording in the field with artist Matt Shenton for his project 'Listening To The Landscape', funded by Arts Council England.
An artist residency at The Minories during January and February 2024, making a new piece of work responding to the thing 'Stanway Mill' but David Lucas.
Sound montage made from the sounds of Colchester. For this piece of work I dug into my archive of sounds and found a folder of field recordings I made in Colchester for the Essex County Council project Genius Loci in 2009. I made small and micro edits of these unprocessed field recordings and arranged them in to awkward rhythms and phrases, with a nod to the aesthetics of the ‘Clicks and Cuts’ compilations on Mille Plateaux label in the early 2000s.
Exhibitions
20 - 25th September 2024 >> Montage @ Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester, Essex.
Field recordings for the film Oyster Land by Michael J Harrison. More info soon.
A reworked version of Resounding will be broadcast as part of the Anglian Embassy at this years Supermarketartfair in Stockholm, Sweden.
Restless Brilliance: The Story of J.A. Baker and The Peregrine is an exhibition at Chelmsford City Museum exploring the life of JA Baker, author of The Peregrine (Published 1967), his love of nature and writing through the archive of his work held by the Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex. It is the first time that this archive has been on public display. Included are three field recordings made by Stuart Bowditch alongside the River Blackwater as part of his Arts Council Funded project Resounding. The exhibition runs between 23rd March and 3rd November 2024. **Update: This exhibition will now be extended until February 2025**