Performative Drawing: neon, laughter and ...
Expanded approaches to drawing, humour and generosity ...
Language, Making, Residency, Traditions, RitualsPosted on January 27, 2025
Samnites, sound and situations
Recording, composing and making sound ...
Poet in ResidencePosted on January 31, 2025
Poem 01
Giovanna MacKenna is The Museum of Loss and Renewal’s Poet in Residence 2025
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 February 28, 2025
Poem 02
My life is leaking from me
like water from a crack
...
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 ...
MakingPosted on March 14, 2025
Lifting and Setting-down
Clay imprints, fired and glazed in Orkney ...
Poet in ResidencePosted on March 30, 2025
Poem 03
You are the world I carried in me / spun free, thrown out of orbit ...
BlogPosted on April 20, 2025
Traditions and rituals
Easter in Italy, celebrating a deeply rooted tradition in villages, towns and cities alike ...
Language, Poet in Residence, ResidencyPosted on April 30, 2025
Poem 04
Pack a small bag. Fill it with your children ...
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 ResidencePosted on May 31, 2025
Poem 05
And then I ready, don my outer shield ...
The Museum of Dad
Bringing you a project update from Hilary Nicoll, 2025 Associate with Tracy Mackenna Studio / The Museum of Loss and...
Trame di Luna
A new cultural festival in Filignano
SOUNDINGS and SURROUNDINGS, Orkney 2025
Approaches to place that are experimental, inventive in form, and that respond through sound ...
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
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 ...
The Blue Windows, Hilary Nicoll
Sharing new work that has come about during my role as Associate ...
