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DIALOGUE, publication produced by residents during the DRAWING DEEPLY Group Residency, 2023

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DIALOGUE, publication produced by residents during the DRAWING DEEPLY Group Residency, 2023

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In addition to the work made by each individual resident, the group jointly produced the publication DIALOGUE, 2023. It now takes pride of place in The Museum of Loss and Renewal library's collection of artist's publications.

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DIALOGUE, publication produced by residents during the DRAWING DEEPLY Group Residency, 2023

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DIALOGUE, publication produced by residents during the DRAWING DEEPLY Group Residency, 2023

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DIALOGUE, publication produced by residents during the DRAWING DEEPLY Group Residency, 2023

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DIALOGUE, publication produced by residents during the DRAWING DEEPLY Group Residency, 2023

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Memory images, made when back in Berlin; memories of spaces entered during the residency, drawn as colourful shapes, Viktoria Mladenovski, DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Manifesto, that found its way into this world so naturally and effortlessly after almost a week in residence, Viktoria Mladenovski, DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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One of my many room drawings from the abandoned Cerreto house, Viktoria Mladenovski, DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Our first two exercises, while walking up the mountains, Viktoria Mladenovski, DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Roman well, Colle Romano, Filignano, Italy

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Dry-stone terraces, Colle Romano, Filignano, Italy

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Dawn breaking, Nighrise Walk, Filignano, Italy

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Walking out of Collemacchia, into Colle Romano

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NIGHTRISE WALK was a journey that we made together, in silence, starting in Collemacchia in astronomical twilight, walking up and into Colle Romano, arriving at dawn.

Leaving Collemacchia village at 05:00 in complete darkness and without the aid of torches, Tracy led the group up, out of the village and higher into the hushed mountain.

The purpose of the walk was to bring us together towards the end of the Group Residency, in a way that was different to any of the work that we had done during the week. Moving almost imperceptibly from darkness into light allowed us to be attentive to ourselves, and to our fellow group members, while silence heightened our listening and attuning abilities.

Stillness enveloped us as we climbed the rough white limestone path, through a rising corridor of beech, birch, oak, wild cherry and pine. A viscous yet veil-like mist enshrouded our passage, dampening imminent sounds of animals, birds and insects and early rising farmers.

The soil’s own smell - petrichor - that comes from microscopic bacteria that continuously produce a compound called geosmin, was amplified by the air’s cloud-moisture and dew.

Invisible in the darkness, footfalls were the only new sounds in the dark mountain as we ascended towards Colle Romano and the beautiful stone Roman well that nourishes bone-white cows and wild horses who gather to share the water from the underground freshwater spring.

Following an animal track, we reached a recently exposed, very special, 'capanna'. For two hundred years this unique dry-stone pastoral hut has been supporting and is being supported by the long run of stone wall that stretches from on high to the valley below, traversing layers of dry-stone terraces.

At dawn, 07:24, we turned to walk carefully and quietly down and into Collemacchia, arriving in the light of 08:15.

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This walk from Collemacchia to Filignano took us to a meeting with one of Filignano's community elders, Eugenio Verrecchia, the Founder and Custodian of il Museo per la Memoria Storica del Territorio / The Museum for the Historical Memory of the Territory that occupies the top floor of Filignano's little Primary School.

To reach the Museum, we walked from the village of Collemacchia along the bottom of la Pineta, or the Pine Hill, to Filignano, passing the ossario (ossuary) by the ancient church of San Eleuterio that is strategically positioned between contemporary Filignano (Felënnànë in molisano) and the original settlement of Fundiliano.

Cleared by local people just before the start of the Covid pandemic, the ossuary stores the human bones of people initially buried in mass and unmarked graves, dating back to the plague that emanated from Naples in 1656, covering a large part of the Italian peninsula.

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Exploring the ossuary; on the roof, at the Church of San Eleuterio, Filignano, Italy

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Walking from the ossuary to Il Museo per la Memoria Storica del Territory / The Museum for the Historical Memory of the Territory, Filignano, Italy

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Il Museo per la Memoria Storica del Territory / The Museum for the Historical Memory of the Territory, Filignano, Italy

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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The Church of San Eleuterio, Filignano, Italy

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Il Museo per la Memoria Storica del Territory / The Museum for the Historical Memory of the Territory, Filignano, Italy

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Il Museo per la Memoria Storica del Territory / The Museum for the Historical Memory of the Territory, Filignano, Italy

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Menu, communal evening meal, made by our local cook Sandra Mancini

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Setting out on TOUCH + TEXTURE drawing and walking exercise, Collemacchia, Italy

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Charcoal from olive tree burnt in wildfire, Parco dell'Olivo / Venafro's ancient olive groves, Molise, Italy

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Drawing Exercises, Archaeological Museum Venafro / Museo Archeologico di Venafro, Molise, Italy

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Parco dell'Olivo / Venafro's ancient olive groves, Molise, Italy

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Drawing while walking, during GREETING PLACE: a guided walk, Collemacchia to Filignano Vecchio

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Video by Edwin Janssen, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Harriet Forster reading from Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Panther Science Fiction (1976), above Filignano

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Video by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Tracy Mackenna reading from Lines: A Brief History, Tim Ingold (2007), on La Pineta path

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Photograph by Edwin Janssen, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Residents and facilitators, Il Museo, Collemacchia, Italy

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Residents and facilitators, Museo Archeologico di Venafro / Archaeological Museum Venafro, Molise, Italy

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Guided walk, from Collemacchia through La Pineta, to Filignano Vecchio

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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APPROACH

The Group Residency provided a partially-structured and hands-on programme to enable residents to develop their skills and understanding of drawing across a range of technologies. The residency experience was designed to stimulate new ways of thinking and experimentation through production, research, co-learning and presentation. Residents worked collectively and individually.

By walking, listening, looking and making an interdisciplinary group of residents activated drawing, a sophisticated means of thinking and communicating, to investigate a site. The location contains a cluster of contemporary villages, residing amidst Samnite and Roman settlements, all accessible by foot.

The aim of this residency was to affirm the value of drawing and enable the visualisation and development of perceptions and ideas in a supportive and stimulating environment in which to develop residents’ skills and knowledge of drawing.

Drawing remains a core activity in the work of creative practitioners, as an exploratory tool that guides visual discovery. Residents explored various approaches to drawing, from historical to contemporary, analogue to digital. The necessity to understand the world through visual means is increasingly acute, and images surpass the boundaries of language and enhance communications in an increasingly globalised world.

Alongside individual practice, the residency had a focus on co-learning and knowledge exchange, creating opportunities to learn from each other. A series of group sessions supported by specific learning models enabled residents, without hierarchies, to explore their own practice and the assertion that drawing underpins systems and principles of visual language. ‘Visual Dialogue’, ‘Slow Looking’ and ‘Listening Environment’ focused on attention to detail. An underlying theme of ‘Micro-Macro’ connected the group to the residency location and to the wider world, in consideration of what one brings from a place and what is subsequently left in a place.

Value was given to the individual knowledge and experience of each resident, exploring the act of drawing as a fundamental means to analyse, document, record and translate the worlds we inhabit.

The Residency Programme was led by Tracy Mackenna  (artist, educator and co-curator of The Museum of Loss and Renewal) with invited partner Danica Maier (artist and academic) who delivered the programme and provided practical and theoretical mentoring. To expand the residency in time and space the programme included an online engagement with the international relevant expert Dr Lydia Halcrow, Artist and Academic, whose work explores ways of collaborating with a place through her walking body.

By presenting and discussing key subjects such as experimentation (focused, and embracing possibilities of failure), analogue-digital relationships, methods and approaches for investigating site, and modes of public presentation, we aimed to facilitate an ongoing creative dialogue between making and being whilst immersed in and experiencing the stunning environment of Collemacchia’s mountain landscape.

Opportunities for participants to share work in progress happened throughout the residency, enabling conversation, exchange and peer support. Surrounding this loose structure, there was time for residents to develop their own work and to experience the local environment.

In addition to the work made by each individual resident the group jointly produced the publication Dialogue, 2023. It now takes pride of place in The Museum of Loss and Renewal library's collection of artist's publications.

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This is a small selection of readings that took place during DRAWING DEEPLY:

Adeline Newmann read from /

Vincent Ialenti, Deep Time reckoning: How future thinking can help the earth now, MIT Press, (2020)

David Farrier, Intimacy: The Poetics of Thick Time, In Anthropocene poetics: Deep time, sacrifice zones, and extinction, Essay, University of Minnesota Press, (2019)

Ellen Dubreuil read from /

Robert Louis Stevenson, Travel. A Child’s Garden of Verses, (1913)

Harriet Forster read from /

Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Panther Science Fiction, (1976)

Ingrid Tait read from /

Margaret Tait, Seeing’s Believing And Believing’s Seeing, from Poems, Stories and Writings, ed. Sarah Neely, Manchester, (2012)

Rose Montgomery-Whicher read from /

John Berger, Drawn to that moment, In Berger, J. Berger on Drawing (65-74), Aghabullogue, Ireland: Occasional Press, (2005)

Shelley Davies and Viktoria Mladenovski read from /

Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, (Hardback); Edition: Main; Publisher: Canongate Books, (2023)

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Dawn chorus, Colle Romano, Filignano, Italy, 13 June 2023

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First Thing, Collemacchia, iPhone video, Ingrid Tait, DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Tree, Parco Regionale dell'Olivo di Venafro, Micron pen on paper, 14 x 21 cms, Ellen Dubreuil, DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Touch + Texture exercise, Dr Lydia Halcrow for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Taking part in this residency was an uplifting experience: inspirational and energizing. Taking time – slowing down – was important for me. It allowed me to walk, look and contemplate different ways of seeing and drawing, whilst being immersed in nature.

The natural landscapes were immediately impressive. But soon I started to see landscapes within landscapes, and landscapes in human structures. I would be moving my eyes slowly along a wooded mountainside, then look down and see mountains and forest on the old plaster wall right in front of me.

I started drawing natural landscapes, then moved on to drawing the landscapes I saw in human structures. Finally, I started taking rubbings, first of stone or plaster, then incorporating grasses, seeds and even moss.

This is an approach that is completely new to my practice – though it ties into my long-standing interest in multi-layered textures. I look forward to exploring it more.

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An excerpt from Dr Lydia Halcrow’s presentation, collapsing the distance between England and Collemacchia, Italy during DRAWING DEEPLY

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To expand the residency in time and space the programme included a presentation by the international relevant expert Dr Lydia Halcrow, artist and academic, whose work explores ways of collaborating with a place through her walking body.

Lydia joined the Group Residency via Zoom, making a presentation about key areas of her work, and setting the drawing and walking exercise TOUCH + TEXTURE for residents, to be undertaken throughout Collemacchia.

Lydia's presentation and the exercise she devised were particularly relevant as she is a former resident of The Museum of Loss and Renewal's Taking Time / Prendendo Tempo Individual Residency programme.

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Lydia Halcrow Presentation DRAWING DEEPLY TMoLaR 2023_Clip

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Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen extend their heartfelt thanks to the people of Collemacchia and Filignano for their enduring interest in The Museum of Loss and Renewal's residency programmes, and for the generosity and kindness extended to each resident.

In particular, thanks go to Sandra Mancini (cook), Mauro Verrecchia (driver), and Adua Pacitti, Pierluigi Iannarelli and Giorgia (Caffè del Borgo).

We are eternally indebted to residents Lee Cutter (UK; Eng), Shelley Davis (UK; Eng), Ellen Dubreuil (US), Harriet Forster (UK; Eng), Viktoria Mladenovski (DE, MK), Adeline Newman (US), Ingrid Tait (UK; Sco), Rose Montgomery-Whicher (CA) and to our invited partner Danica Maier. Through each of them, and the energy they created together, DRAWING DEEPLY was transformed from an idea and words on a page, to a rich lived experience that has led to new friendships and collaborations.

We acknowledge the land that DRAWING DEEPLY took place in and on, paying respect to the past, present and future custodians and elders of the Filignano community and the Molise region and the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of its peoples.

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Landscape/contours, Distance/Close-up, Texture, Colour, Looseness

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Outside in Cerreto, watercolour, acrylic, pencil, masking fluid on watercolour paper, Ingrid Tait, DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Moss Mountain, moss on cartridge paper, Ingrid Tait, DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Tabletop Landscape, charcoal stick and ink on cartridge paper, Ingrid Tait, DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Tabletop Tree, charcoal stick on cartridge paper, Ingrid Tait, DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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I was brought up and still live in Scotland's Orkney Islands.

Whilst at The Royal College of Art in London I developed a new ‘fabric fusion’ approach by adapting an industrial felting technique. This produced unique effects by bonding fabric and stitch work onto woven wool fabrics. In 1990 I founded the company Tait & Style to explore the possibilities of this technique (and others, including knitting) and sold in worldwide outlets including Takishamaya and Barneys in New York, Liberty, Selfridges, and The Conran Shop in London, and Tomorrowland, and Beams in Tokyo.

I collaborated with many other designers on developing fabric for their own collections, including John Rocha, Paul Smith, and Givenchy. Since 2008 I have produced only occasional fabric fusion works – including several in partnership with The Museum of Loss and Renewal – having focussed instead on teaching, running textile courses, and above all operating my own retail business in Orkney.

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Trace, Memory, Journey, Body, Healing

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This is the Way to Collemacchia, graphite on graph paper, 100 x 100 cms, Harriet Forster, DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Feet, coloured pencil on paper, A5, Harriet Forster, DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Collected tiles mosaic made with Rose Montgomery-Whicher, Visual Dialogue exercise, Harriet Forster, DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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A path with hayfever, Harriet Forster, DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Rubbing from Venafro, graphite on paper, 20 x 30 cms, Harriet Forster, DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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This group residency in Collemacchia solidified my understanding of key points within my practice through a constant and lively dialogue between places, books, and each other’s drawings and writings.

DRAWING DEEPLY taught me the importance of consistently engaging theory through making, allowing me to develop a deeper relationship with keywords in my practice such as trace, mapping, memory and lines.

I felt grounded by this balance of thinking and doing and have since aimed to recreate this environment in the way I use the studio, placing importance on being outside, with[in] places and finding ways to share that experience.

During the residency, I became excited by deeply exploring how my body engages with place through the use of mark-making and gesture. Ideas of belonging with place became active for me through the action of expanded drawing and storytelling, helping me take care in noticing the experience of an environment.

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Harriet Forster is a Glasgow-based artist who practices with the mediums of photography, drawing, and film. Her work investigates the boundaries of the human and non-human, questioning our relationship with land and water.

She is interested in belonging with place across time and how this informs our moment of crisis.

Harriet received a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design from The Royal Drawing School (2021), undertook the Student Exchange/Mobility Program at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2022) and is currently pursuing BA(Hons) in Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art. Harriet’s work has been exhibited both in the UK and Canada and she completed a residency with Descover Artists in Hydra, Greece (2022).

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TOUCH + TEXTURE drawing and walking exercise, Collemacchia

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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TOUCH + TEXTURE drawing and walking exercise, Collemacchia, Italy

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TOUCH + TEXTURE drawing and walking exercise, Collemacchia

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Video by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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TOUCH + TEXTURE drawing and walking exercise, Collemacchia

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Drawing while walking, during GREETING PLACE: a guided walk, Collemacchia to Filignano Vecchio

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Video by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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GREETING PLACE was our first collective guided drawing walk, led by Tracy Mackenna. It took residents through Collemacchia's lanes and off the main road, into the pine hill, La Pineta. Ascending slowly, walking mostly in single file along the narrow footpath, Tracy told of how the pine trees were planted by many of Collemacchia and Filignano's community elders when, as primary school children, a significant percentage of their educaiton tookm place outdoors.

Emerging from the shade of the trees, the land and how it has been formed and 'scaped' by changing labour patterns and by war opened up, framed by the Apennine and Mainarde mountain ranges.

Conversation revolved around the interrelationships of place, people and time, as Tracy recounted stories about the local community, its people's histories, issues currently being faced due to ageing and depopulation, changes in work and employment opportunities and how the community might reconsider or reconfigure itself in the post Covid pandemic era.

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Looking onto contemporary Filignano (1800-), from Filignano Vecchio (Old Filignano)

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Drawing while walking, during GREETING PLACE: a guided walk, Collemacchia to Filignano Vecchio

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Drawing Exercises, Archaeological Museum Venafro / Museo Archeologico di Venafro

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY

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This is a celebration of individual practice, research, new collaborations and enduring friendships.

It has been designed and compiled by Tracy Mackenna, Co-Curator of The Museum of Loss and Renewal with Edwin Janssen, and includes material contributions from the PLACE, PEOPLE AND TIME: DRAWING DEEPLY residents and invited partner, artist and academic Danica Maier.

It offers a glimpse of just a fraction of the work and activities that took place during the DRAWING DEEPLY Group Residency, and impotantly, includes residents' reflections on their experiences.

Between 07 – 13 June 2023 by walking, listening, looking and making an interdisciplinary group of residents activated drawing, a sophisticated means of thinking and communicating, to investigate a site; Collemacchia and its environment, Filignano, in Italy's Molise region.

DRAWING DEEPLY was devised by Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen (artists, educators and curators of The Museum of Loss and Renewal) with contibutions from invited partner Danica Maier (artist and academic).

The residents who brought their unique practices, personalities and approaches to the Group Residency were Lee Cutter (UK; Eng), Shelley Davies (UK; Eng), Ellen Dubreuil (US), Harriet Forster (UK; Eng), Viktoria Mladenovski (DE, MK), Adeline Newman (US), Ingrid Tait (UK; Sco), Rose Montgomery-Whicher (CA).

Tracy & Edwin, the Curators of The Museum of Loss and Renewal, believe in the power of bringing people together, and that the remarkable things that happen during a Group Residency in Collemacchia contribute to this place, and to the wider world that it inhabits.

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Collemacchia, in the Apennine and Mainarde mountains

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Photograph by Mark Kilsdonk Janssen for The Museum of Loss and Renewal

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Guided walk, from Collemacchia through La Pineta, to Filignano Vecchio

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Video by Edwin Janssen, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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The Group Residency PLACE, PEOPLE AND TIME: DRAWING DEEPLY was a gathering of international participants and facilitators that took place in June 2023 in Collemacchia, in Italy’s Molise region, where The Museum of Loss and Renewal holds its residency programmes.

The interrelationships of ‘place, people and time’ were key to the residency programme, and so activities took place in The Museum of Loss and Renewal's studios and around the village of Collemacchia, Molise, Italy.

This Group Residency was offered for creative practitioners who have a strong interest in drawing as an area of practice. Applications from other fields where drawing is used as a means to develop, document, explore, explain, interrogate and plan such as science, technology, engineering, mathematics, medicine, sport and writing were welcomed.

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Video by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Il Museo, accommmodation and studios, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Collemacchia, Italy

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Guided walk, from Collemacchia through La Pineta, to Filignano Vecchio

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The PLACE, PEOPLE AND TIME: DRAWING DEEPLY Group Residency brought together for the first time participants from Canada, England, Germany, Scotland and USA in June 2023, in the little village of Collemacchia, Italy which has been home for centuries to the Italian family of The Museum of Loss and Renewal's curator Tracy Mackenna.

The week that was spent in close, active proximity with one another turned around, in and through a variety of approaches to being together. Each session was focused around ways of working that included DRAWING, WALKING, CONVERSING, LISTENING, SILENCE, VISUAL DIALOGUE and SHOWING. An underlying theme of ‘Micro-Macro’ connected the group to the residency location and to the wider world, in consideration of what one brings from a place and what is subsequently left in a place.

Each day began with a carefully selected reading, by a resident and a facilitator. The content of the text and the author were in each case relevant to the practice and research of the reader and reflected their areas of interest, or to the site in which it was read. In every case, the reading set the context for a specific group activity.

RESIDENTS' PRESENTATIONS made space and time at the beginnning of the Group Residency for each resident to introduce their work and ways of thinking to the group.

GREETING PLACE was a guided drawing walk that took residents through Collemacchia's close and ancient natural and architectural environment, lead by Tracy who shared her knowledge, passion and secrets about the land, people, time and contemporary issues facing the community.

DRAWING DEEPLY presentations by Tracy and Danica positioned thier understandings of and activation of expanded drawing practices in their individual and collaborative practices and research activities.

SLOW LOOKING was a set of drawing exercises that took place in the Archaeological Museum / Museo archeologico di Venafro in the nearby town, and in the ancient olive groves in the Parco Regionale dell'Olivo di Venafro, on slopes of Monte Santa Croce.

TOUCH + TEXTURE Walk was an exercise in looking, mapping, feeling and 'orientation' set for our residents by the residency's invited guest speaker Dr Lydia Halcrow, artist and academic, whose work explores ways of collaborating with a place through her walking body.

VISUAL DIALOGUE was a silent exercise that started by walking from Collemacchia to the neighbouring village of Cerreto, where residents worked collaboratively in houses abandoned when citizens emigrated due to economic poverty.

STORYLINES was a meeting between residents and facilitators and one of Filignano's community elders, Eugenio Verrecchia, the Founder and Custodian of il Museo per la Memoria Storica del Territorio / The Museum for the Historical Memory of the Territory that is situated on the top floor of the local Primary School.

SPRINT REVIEW was a space for residents to loop back to their own introductions at the start of the Group Residency, framed by the considerations 'where are you now, what new questions do you have?'.

THINKING/LISTENING ENVIRONMENT was a session that enabled individual residents' value-based thinking and reflection through the group's focused listening attention.

NIGHTRISE WALK was a journey made in silence. It brought us together at the end of the Group Residency, in a way that was different to any of the work done during the week. Moving imperceptibly from darkness into dawn’s light, we walked and drew.

Each day, SPACE & TIME periods allowed residents to work in the studios or outdoors, individually and/or in new collaborations.

Reflection and feedback time at the end of each day brought questions, issues and reflections to the fore and shaped each subsequent session.

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The Museum of Loss and Renewal library, Collemacchia, Italy

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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To set the tone for each new day, and to introduce residents to each new location, texts were selected by residents and facilitators to read to the group.

The READINGS took place in buildings, and on the move where the group paused to share through voice, listening and attentiveness. These texts created a larger, new text and became a living bibliography, a mobile, collective resource.

Words, made material through the voice, moved out of the body to become part of the architecture, land and air.

Residents read from books that they had carried with them from their homes and studios around the world to Collemacchia, Tracy Mackenna read from books in The Museum of Loss and Renewal's library and Danica Maier read from a texts selected in advance.

Danica described the readings as being "Intended as considerations or contemplation on the focus of the day. While the readings link to the day's activities they are also intended to build on each other every day. I would invite you to be aware and consider the links across as well as within the gaps and spaces between the words, lines of texts, and readings."

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Nancy Kline, ‘The Difference’ in The Promise that Changes Everything: I Won’t Interrupt You, pp. 7, 10, 11, 12, 13

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Charlotte Higgins, ‘Turning away’ in Red Thread: Mazes and Labyrinths, p. 62

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Minna Salami, (2020) from 'Of Knowledge in Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone', Bloomsbury Publishing, London, pp. 14-15, 21, 24

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Thich Nhat Hanh, ‘Stopping and Looking Deeply’ in How to See, p. 33

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Michelle Boulous Walker, ‘Introduction: On Being Slow and Doing Philosophy’ in Slow Philosophy: Reading Against the Institution, pp. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15

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Stuart Firestein, ‘A Short View on Ignorance’ in Ignorance: How it Drives Science, pp. 11, 12, 15, 16

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David Bohm, ‘On Dialogue’ in On Dialogue, pp. 6,7

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Marion Milner, ‘Two ways of looking’ in  A Life of One’s Own, pp. 77,78

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The performative reading ‘Associated thoughts on: The End’ was given by Danica on the penultimate night of the group residency. It consisted of reading the final pages of a number of books chosen from The Museum of Loss and Renewal library

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On the penultimate day of the residency the group engaged in a THINKING ENVIRONMENT based on Nancy Kline's Thinking Environment, lead by Danica.

The foundation of the Thinking Environment lies in one observation and one question: 'the quality of everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first',

and 'what does it take for people to help each other to think well for themselves?'.

The purpose of the THINKING / LISTENING ENVIRONMENT session was to facilitate quality reflection by individuals and thinking about their specific experiences and development throughout the week.

Each resident took time to consider, think, and speak to enable their own understanding and clarity of the week’s drawings, artworks, events, actions, interactions, discussions, and effects.

Through a value-based philosophy of communication the session enabled quality and clarity of individual's thinking and reflection through the group's focused listening attention.

In keeping with the nature of the THINKING / LISTENING ENVIRONMENT, there are no images of this session.

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The SPRINT REVIEW was a space for residents to loop back to the introductions each made at the start of the Group Residency, framed by the considerations 'where are you now, what new questions do you have?'.

Residents made short presentations to the group, highlighting key thoughts, ideas and considerations from the week's activity by talking through work in progress.

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Video by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Drawing Exercises, Archaeological Museum Venafro / Museo Archeologico di Venafro, Molise, Italy

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Drawing Exercises, Archaeological Museum Venafro / Museo Archeologico di Venafro, Molise, Italy

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Shari Tishman defines slow looking as 'taking the time to carefully observe more than meets the eye at first glance'.

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Working in Venafro's Archaeological Museum / Museo Archeologico di Venafro the group engaged in a series of SLOW LOOKING exercises based on Shari Tishman's book ‘Slow Looking'.

Through drawing the group was prompted to spend time giving attention. Building on the time spent on each exercise the invitation was to look slowly and differently through and with drawing.

This process used various focal explorations such as scatter vision, list making, drawing movement and sound and what is felt, drawing one site from different perspectives, and micro and macro looking.

Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Drawing Exercises, Archaeological Museum Venafro / Museo Archeologico di Venafro, Molise, Italy

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Drawing Exercises, Archaeological Museum Venafro / Museo Archeologico di Venafro, Molise, Italy

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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Collemacchia, Apennine and Mainarde mountains, Italy

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023

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The Group Residency took place in Collemacchia, a small village within Italy’s National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, a protected area of exceptional significance and beauty. Engagement with the natural world begins on the doorstep and the stunning mountainous landscape offers an excellent environment for reflective practice. The ancient, undisturbed and extensive terrain holds a rich and complex history visible in the area’s architecture, customs, agricultural lands and forests.

The area is sparsely populated by villages that are largely trilingual Italian-French-English due to the large community of emigrants who continually move between European nations, stemming from economic migration dating from approx. 1850. The village has been home to Tracy Mackenna’s family for centuries and the curators of The Museum of Loss and Renewal foster strong links with the local community which is highly supportive of the Residency Programme.

Setting out from Collemacchia always on foot, drawing activities took place amongst Samnite and Roman paths, architectural structures, and water sources. The mountains' dry-stone terraces that were once fully productive provided a geographical structure on which to walk, read aloud, draw, converse and share.

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Land clearing and fuel, above Collemacchia

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Photograph by Tracy Mackenna, The Museum of Loss and Renewal, for DRAWING DEEPLY, 2023