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03/03/24 - Northumberland Field Work
23rd - 25th February 2024 Northumberland Residency: Collecting and reading land energies Between the 23rd and 25th February myself and my...

Ritchard Allaway
Mar 3, 20246 min read
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22/02/2024 - Storing Earth Energy
23rd Feb 2024: Experimentation: Extracting and storing energy I feel like I have been working with E.B’s for so long now that people are...

Ritchard Allaway
Feb 22, 20244 min read
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21/02/24 - A Narrated Film in Landscape
21st February 2024: An Outcome: Content and Dissemination As in my previous blog entry, ‘Over-Silton: A return or a derive’, I discussed...

Ritchard Allaway
Feb 21, 20244 min read
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20/01/2024 - Over Silton - A return or a derive?
20th January 2024: Collecting material: Re-visiting landscape - a return or a derive? On New Years Eve 2022, I found myself walking...

Ritchard Allaway
Jan 20, 20247 min read
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11/01/2024 - Installation Art
11th January 2024: Reading: Re-visiting installation art through three texts Claire Bishop – Installation Art CB ‘I.A’ gives a short...

Ritchard Allaway
Jan 11, 20245 min read
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02/12/23 - Shifting Landscapes: An Immersive Exhibition
Emergence Magazine Presents Shifting Landscapes: An Immersive Exhibition 1st – 10th December 2023 – Bargehouse, London It has been...

Ritchard Allaway
Jan 9, 202411 min read
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19/09/23 - A Visit to the Baltic
The Baltic Centre For Contemporary Arts It feels like an age ago when summer was here and some sun gleamed upon our bodies, and it also...

Ritchard Allaway
Sep 20, 20234 min read
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01/09/23 - Land Samples & Artistic Outcomes
1st September 2023: Making: Working with Samples I am finding my practice starting to move at quite a rapid pace at this moment in time....

Ritchard Allaway
Sep 4, 20235 min read
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15/08/23 - Auchope Rigg & The Pennine Way
15th August 2023: Residency: Hiking the Pennine Way Between Scotland and England On August the 7th I headed out on another residential,...

Ritchard Allaway
Aug 15, 202311 min read
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10/08/2023 - The Wimshurst Machine Part 2
Building a Wimshurst 2.0 1st August 2023: Construction: Building a Wimshurst Machine (for the second time) Well, here I am again,...

Ritchard Allaway
Aug 10, 20236 min read
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24/07/23 - Reflecting on the Arts in Society Conference
Reflecting on the conference: New Aesthetic Expressions: The Social Role of Art – Jagiellonian University 5th – 7th July 2023 I flew out...

Ritchard Allaway
Jul 24, 202313 min read
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05/06/23 - Exploring Land Samples with Photographic Practice
Exploring Land Samples with Photographic Practice 22nd May 2023: Experimentation: Working with Samples With my samples collected within...

Ritchard Allaway
Jun 9, 20237 min read
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17/05/23 - Danby, Walking & Collecting Land Samples
Experimentation 17th May: Experimentation: Gathering Materials As time is not fully on my side at the moment, and with the need/wants to...

Ritchard Allaway
May 17, 20236 min read
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03/05/23 - An Earth Battery and an Arc Generator
Experimentation 3rd May: Experimentation: Working with an Earth Battery and Arc Generator Something I have been discussing/thinking about...

Ritchard Allaway
May 3, 20236 min read
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14/04/23 - Natural Interaction: Nick Jordan
Natural Interaction 14th April: Natural Interaction: An Exhibition from Nick Jordan With the postponed residency into Scotland, I took up...

Ritchard Allaway
Apr 14, 20235 min read
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12/04/23 - Scotland Residency Postponed
Unfortunately my first residency of 2023 has been put on hold. I was due to drive up to Kirk Yetholm and hike to Auchope Rigg/Hen Hole,...

Ritchard Allaway
Apr 12, 20232 min read
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10/04/23 - PM1 Outcome
Well if you have been reading these blog entries and/or have been with me for the past twelve weeks, it has been no secret that I have...

Ritchard Allaway
Apr 10, 20234 min read
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25/02/23 - Terminology
Terminology 25th February: Terminology: Defining Land, Landscape, Wilderness, Nature, & Environment You can tell with the current...

Ritchard Allaway
Feb 25, 202311 min read
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20/02/23 - Defining Practice
20th February: Defining Practice: Writing an artist statement…for 2894th time. ‘Where is your statement?’ ‘Can I have that statement I...

Ritchard Allaway
Feb 20, 20235 min read
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15/02/23 - Working to a Referral
15th February PM1: Reflecting on a referral Working to a Referral What has occurred? First of all, I must apologise for my lack of blog...

Ritchard Allaway
Feb 15, 202310 min read
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