Peer Matters DIY Residency, West Wales, September
'Peer Matters is a group of artists from across the UK, practitioners who make, share, and muddle through together. We’re trying to hold open a space where our artistic development can unfold collaboratively, setting aside for a moment the usual pressures of professionalisation and precarity'
The last time most of us were in the same room was during the DIY residency we ran at Anna’s studio in West Wales, a few days of making, talking, working, and cooking alongside one another.
What sticks with me most are the photos I took of Anna’s children playing. In them, they’re busy inventing small worlds of their own, as seen above and below - sticks turning into swords, stones into walls.
On our Sunday walk, their imaginary exchanges became happy interruptions that took us out of ourselves, deciding what gift you needed to offer to pass through each ‘gate’, a fern, a stone, or something else you’d collected.
