Workshops and Events
I am energised by bringing people together, to share ways of working, artwork, research in progress and to celebrate the outcomes of projects.
This stimulates my own creative impulses, and develops new ideas and inspiration for future work, with individuals and groups who are highly motivated.
Gatherings are the way that I do this, physically and in online spaces. By focussing on particular subject-matters and letting the creative work tell its story, co-learning happens along with reflection, and connections and networks that transcend differences are formed.
Participants and presenters show work, share knowledge and information about the subject being discussed, about ways of making, about processes and techniques and about reference material.
Generously, information is also shared about events, arts organisations, interdisciplinary projects, venues for presenting work, personal contacts, production resources, selling, marketing and publicity, and more.
Those who join in say that they have been motivated to maintain good consistent relationships and contacts with others and that this helps them be more effective at creating and presenting their work distinct from when they tried to manage alone.
As an artist with decades of experience working internationally to devise and situate projects that form a core part of my artistic practice, my work has grown through shared continuous learning, with the aim of making a positive impact on the art world and every other sector that my work is part of.
2025 workshops and events will be announced soon.
Notebook and Stories Blog
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BlogPosted on March 30, 2025
Poem 03
You are the world I carried in me / spun free, thrown out of orbit ... -
BlogPosted on March 14, 2025
Lifting and Setting-down
Clay imprints, fired and glazed in Orkney -
BlogPosted on March 6, 2025
Call and Response
I've been trying to make art / About my artist residency. Trying to piece together my experience ... -
BlogPosted on February 28, 2025
Poem 02
My life is leaking from me like water from a crack ... -
BlogPosted 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 ... -
BlogPosted on January 31, 2025
Poem 01
Giovanna MacKenna is The Museum of Loss and Renewal’s Poet in Residence 2025