Notebook and Stories Blog – Tracy Mackenna Studio

Artefacts, Collecting, Curation, Learning, MuseumPosted on February 15, 2026

Collect, conserve, curate, interpret and share

Objects that focus on 5,000 years of human creativity

Artwork, Making, Place, Traditions, RitualsPosted on January 4, 2026

Keeping company

When the tides permit, I cross the causeway to this mass of rock and soil and wildlife ...

Artwork, Curation, Exhibition, Language, Making, Museum, WritingPosted on December 10, 2025

The Blue Windows, Hilary Nicoll

Sharing new work that has come about during my role as Associate ...

Artist's Publishing, Curation, Language, Making, Publishing, Residency, WritingPosted on November 3, 2025

PUBLISHING as an artistic PRACTICE, 2025

Developing residents' production skills and knowledge of artist's publications ...

Curation, Making, Micro-Macro, Place, ResidencyPosted on October 25, 2025

MICRO-MACRO, Orkney, 2025

What a fantastic week we spent together, during the 2025 Group Residency MICRO-MACRO

Audio, Curation, Making, Residency, SoundPosted on September 8, 2025

SOUNDINGS and SURROUNDINGS, Orkney 2025

Approaches to place that are experimental, inventive in form, and that respond through sound ...

Curation, Exhibition, Festival, Making, Museum, Residency, VideoPosted on August 16, 2025

Trame di Luna

A new cultural festival in Filignano

Making, MuseumPosted on July 21, 2025

The Museum of Dad

Bringing you a project update from Hilary Nicoll, 2025 Associate with Tracy Mackenna Studio / The Museum of Loss and...

Language, Poet in ResidencePosted on May 31, 2025

Poem 05

And then I ready, don my outer shield ...

Traditions, RitualsPosted on May 21, 2025

Gl'Cierv / The Ritual of the Deer Man

The 'Gl'Cierv' ritual has its origins in the primordial meaning of carnival, the ancient Dionysian myth ...

Language, Poet in Residence, ResidencyPosted on April 30, 2025

Poem 04

Pack a small bag. Fill it with your children ...

BlogPosted on April 20, 2025

Traditions and rituals

Easter in Italy, celebrating a deeply rooted tradition in villages, towns and cities alike ...

Poet in ResidencePosted on March 30, 2025

Poem 03

You are the world I carried in me / spun free, thrown out of orbit ...

MakingPosted on March 14, 2025

Lifting and Setting-down

Clay imprints, fired and glazed in Orkney ...

Poet in ResidencePosted on March 6, 2025

Call and Response

I've been trying to make art / About my artist residency. Trying to piece together my experience ...

Poet in ResidencePosted on February 28, 2025

Poem 02

My life is leaking from me like water from a crack ...

Language, Publishing, WritingPosted on February 21, 2025

Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums

Gouster is a sharp breeze o wind or an ootburst o language, Glim is a glimmer, a blink o light or fire ...

Poet in ResidencePosted on January 31, 2025

Poem 01

Giovanna MacKenna is The Museum of Loss and Renewal’s Poet in Residence 2025

Notebook
and Stories
Blog

Hi, and welcome to a space that I love, where I can quickly combine images, sound and writing.

You will get to know my interests and passions through posts about art, art-making, co-learning, creativity and publishing. All of these are suffused with attention to accessibility, sustainability and care, and are considered through my Neurodivergent lens.