'Nicolas Burrows (who is one third of brilliant collective Nous Vous)... has just founded Natives, an “ongoing, itinerant residency project,” as he explains to us, for “gathering together practitioners who share a sensitivity towards landscape, wilderness and walking, opening up collaborative possibilities, allowing for a closer connection with the landscape and exploring alternative ways of living and making.”
In its first iteration the group of practitioners consists of Marcus Oakley, Sister Arrow, Supermundane, William Edmonds and Nic himself, and it culminates in the first edition of Natives Journal, the paper rendition of all that they made and did together while in Cumbria.
The first issue of the journal is a beauty to hold. It contains a perfect amalgamation of creative materials by diverse artists which are strung together by a thread of common experience rather than repeated ideas. With a number of postcards, prints and an audio soundtrack contained within its pages, the notion of it having been made by a collective is very strong.
“I’m pleased with the result,” Nic continues. “Elliot at Victory Press who printed it did a great job. We also collated and bound it by hand, so it’s nice that it has that element to it as well. To me it’s a good reminder of the time spent there – for other readers I hope that the bits of sound, the texts and the images all contribute towards building up a picture of the place we were in, through the eyes of five different artists.”
Source: www.itsnicethat.com/articles/nicolas-burrows
Natives Blog
https://nativesresidency.wordpress.com
My Notes
I really wanted to do something like that for my India Brief. I had this in my head, a collection of different media and formats all depicting my experience and time spent in India because it was such as visually interesting and amazing place. Seeing these artists collaborate on a similar project really helps me to realise the potential of my project.
The idea of collaboration might be something that I can actually draw upon because I have connections to people travelling round India at the moment. Perhaps I can use some of their writing, or photographs to add to my exhibition piece - or illustrate some of their experiences. For this I will need to contact them to see what is possible for them to get involved in - because obviously communication is not very reliable with someone travelling around India! One girl I know, who's dad is a famous Indian writer, is currently travelling round India and is keeping a blog diary. Extracts or illustrations based on these could be really cool to include in a book? I could have a range of things like the above project. Poetry - old and new, my art, photographs, exerts of books, or blogging diaries etc.
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