Catherine Wynne-Paton

Since my last post, I’ve given my talk on Susan Hiller. Spending time with her work, and the questions it raises around collective experience and what sits outside formal records, felt like a fitting continuation of the themes running through this project. What has shifted more noticeably, though, is the shape of what comes next. In recent sessions at Abergavenny Library, I began discussing the idea of forming a small action group. That has now taken a more defined form as a July “intensive”:...

This month has been quieter on the surface. Since my last talk in April, I haven’t made much visible progress on the project strands I set out at the start of the year. The data-gathering remains paused, and I have not yet formed the group that will eventually help select artists for Abergavenny Library. Instead, the focus has shifted inward. Preparing for this month’s talk on Susan Hiller has meant spending time with an artist deeply concerned with belief, collective experience, and what...

An update of the Male stacks, Female gaps, art monographs in public libraries project. Recent research, talks and reflections on the future of the project