Write Here Nottingham Contemporary
Wayne Burrows at Nottingham Contemporary
Writer and editor Wayne Burrows will be ‘resident’ at Nottingham Contemporary from January to the end of March 2011, responding to exhibitions, the working environment, and its services. Throughout the residency he will run a series of workshops with groups of older people, and a larger community group, providing a supportive environment in which the participants will be encouraged to creatively respond to all facets of Nottingham Contemporary (i.e. exhibitions, office environment, café, study, lifts, signage, website, brochures, menu, etc.) He will explore the use of music, film and technology within the exhibitions, including their relationships to popular culture.
This residency in a dedicated contemporary arts venue and therefore displays how writers can work in, and respond across different artistic disciplines.
For more information about the workshops please see here.
Visit the Nottingham Contemporary Writer Residency page here.
To read Wayne’s Write Here at Nottingham Contemporary blog, click here.
Wayne Burrows
Wayne Burrows’ first collection of poetry, Marginalia, appeared from Peterloo Poets in 2001, and his latest, Emblems (Shoestring Press) was published last year. His work has featured in the British Council’s New Writing anthologies, the Forward anthology and many mainstream and small press magazines.
He has written widely on the visual arts, performance and music for newspapers, websites and magazines like Metro, Nottingham Visual Arts and The Big Issue in the North, and took over the editorship of Staple Magazine in late 2007. He recently collaborated with the artist Neville Gabie on a project based in Sneinton Square, and delivered a series of workshops at Nottingham Contemporary which examined how artists use writing within their practice and writers use art as a inspiration in their work.
He has also performed ‘The Enigma of Robert Holcombe’ at Hatch,and ‘Disturbances’, a short piece using found images and text, with a score by Jon Brooks, at Annexinema.
