Art to Art is a project that features commissioned poems in response to Morgan Quaintance’s film Missing Time, showing at John Hansard Gallery in May and June 2021.

Working with poets, JHG Writer in Residence Ella Frears facilitated a masterclass that enabled the group to explore the themes of Quaintance's film, which later developed in to poems performed on Zoom and Facebook Live. 

In collaboration with Ella Frears, Hannah Cox (JHG Duty Manager) and Nick Makoha and the Obsidian Foundation, the event featured poets Damian Basher, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, alongside Obsidian Foundation members Kondo Heller, Asmad Jama and Kojo Apeagyei, as well as hosts Ella Frears and Nick Makoha. 

Organised in partnership with ArtfulScribe, as part of the SO:Write Literature Development Project.

About Clementine E Burnley
Clementine E Burnley is a feminist migrant writer,  Obsidian Foundation poet and facilitator. She’s been shortlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize,  Amsterdam Open Book Prize, the First Pages Prize and was selected for Chimamanda N. Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus Trust Workshop. In 2021 her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She’s also a 2021 Edwin Morgan Second Life Grantee. Her work has appeared in Emma Press’ Anthology of Britain, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Parabola Magazine and The Centifictionist. You can find her online on Twitter @decolonialheart and www.clementineburnley.com.

Clementine E Burney: Homing

Art to Art is a project that features commissioned poems in response to Morgan Quaintance’s film Missing Time, showing at John Hansard Gallery in May and June 2021.

Working with poets, JHG Writer in Residence Ella Frears facilitated a masterclass that enabled the group to explore the themes of Quaintance's film, which later developed in to poems performed on Zoom and Facebook Live. 

In collaboration with Ella Frears, Hannah Cox (JHG Duty Manager) and Nick Makoha and the Obsidian Foundation, the event featured poets Damian Basher, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, alongside Obsidian Foundation members Kondo Heller, Asmad Jama and Kojo Apeagyei, as well as hosts Ella Frears and Nick Makoha. 

Organised in partnership with ArtfulScribe, as part of the SO:Write Literature Development Project.

About Damian Basher
Damian Basher performs and runs live literature events and workshops and is half of Panda-monium, Hampshire’s leading panda-harmonium duo.

Damian Basher: Missing Time

Art to Art is a project that features commissioned poems in response to Morgan Quaintance’s film Missing Time, showing at John Hansard Gallery in May and June 2021.

Working with poets, JHG Writer in Residence Ella Frears facilitated a masterclass that enabled the group to explore the themes of Quaintance's film, which later developed in to poems performed on Zoom and Facebook Live. 

In collaboration with Ella Frears, Hannah Cox (JHG Duty Manager) and Nick Makoha and the Obsidian Foundation, the event featured poets Damian Basher, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, alongside Obsidian Foundation members Kondo Heller, Asmad Jama and Kojo Apeagyei, as well as hosts Ella Frears and Nick Makoha. 

Organised in partnership with ArtfulScribe, as part of the SO:Write Literature Development Project.

About Kondo Heller
Kondo Heller is a poet, writer, Ledbury Critic, and experimental poetry filmmaker. They are an incoming Cornell University MFA Poetry student and have performed their poetry amongst other places at the Roundhouse, APT Gallery, and the Barbican. They also co-host a monthly radio show called Poetic Healing with Zen and Kondo on THFradio. Find Kondo on Instagram @howtogrowaflower.

Kondo Heller: Brown Noise

Art to Art is a project that features commissioned poems in response to Morgan Quaintance’s film Missing Time, showing at John Hansard Gallery in May and June 2021.

Working with poets, JHG Writer in Residence Ella Frears facilitated a masterclass that enabled the group to explore the themes of Quaintance's film, which later developed in to poems performed on Zoom and Facebook Live. 

In collaboration with Ella Frears, Hannah Cox (JHG Duty Manager) and Nick Makoha and the Obsidian Foundation, the event featured poets Damian Basher, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, alongside Obsidian Foundation members Kondo Heller, Asmad Jama and Kojo Apeagyei, as well as hosts Ella Frears and Nick Makoha. 

Organised in partnership with ArtfulScribe, as part of the SO:Write Literature Development Project.

About Ella Frears
Ella Frears is a poet and artist based in London. Her debut collection ‘Shine, Darling’ (Offord Road Books, 2020) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Her poems about the St Ives Modernists are on display at Tate St Ives. She is the current Writer in Residence for the John Hansard Gallery.

Ella Frears: Light And Shade In The Manner Of A Hypnotist

Art to Art is a project that features commissioned poems in response to Morgan Quaintance’s film Missing Time, showing at John Hansard Gallery in May and June 2021.

Working with poets, JHG Writer in Residence Ella Frears facilitated a masterclass that enabled the group to explore the themes of Quaintance's film, which later developed in to poems performed on Zoom and Facebook Live. 

In collaboration with Ella Frears, Hannah Cox (JHG Duty Manager) and Nick Makoha and the Obsidian Foundation, the event featured poets Damian Basher, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, alongside Obsidian Foundation members Kondo Heller, Asmad Jama and Kojo Apeagyei, as well as hosts Ella Frears and Nick Makoha. 

Organised in partnership with ArtfulScribe, as part of the SO:Write Literature Development Project.

About Asmaa Jama
Asmaa Jama is a Danish born, Somali artist, poet and co-founder of Dhaqan Collective, a feminist art collective. They have been published in print and online in places like Ambit, ANMLY and The Good Journal. Asmaa’s work has been translated into French, Swahili, Somali, Spanish and Portuguese. Most recently they were shortlisted for Brunel African Poetry Prize and longlisted for the National Poetry Competition. Asmaa is a Cave Canem Starshine and Clay Fellow.

Asmaa Jama: I Interview My Father About The War In An Attempt To Swallow The Indiscrepancies

Art to Art is a project that features commissioned poems in response to Morgan Quaintance’s film Missing Time, showing at John Hansard Gallery in May and June 2021.

Working with poets, JHG Writer in Residence Ella Frears facilitated a masterclass that enabled the group to explore the themes of Quaintance's film, which later developed in to poems performed on Zoom and Facebook Live. 

In collaboration with Ella Frears, Hannah Cox (JHG Duty Manager) and Nick Makoha and the Obsidian Foundation, the event featured poets Damian Basher, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, alongside Obsidian Foundation members Kondo Heller, Asmad Jama and Kojo Apeagyei, as well as hosts Ella Frears and Nick Makoha. 

Organised in partnership with ArtfulScribe, as part of the SO:Write Literature Development Project.

About Kojo Apeagyei
A multidisciplinary artist, Kojo Apeagyei is a writer, photographer, actor and events producer from London. As a writer, he centres investigative journalism, and poetry - finding that the two often masquerade as each other. Kojo's experimental approach explores memory, truth, and irony to discover evocative experiences which land somewhere between prose and poetry. An Obsidian Foundation Fellow, an alum of the 2018 Arvon writers retreat and 2017 Apples and Snakes Writers Room, Kojo was also nominated for the Young People's Laureate for London in 2018. He formerly produced and hosted the monthly poetry night, Pen-Ting Poetry – with a sold out run of 11 shows and has featured at places such as the Battersea Arts Centre and Neverworld Festival.

Kojo Apeagyei: 1945; A Handful Of Memories

Art to Art is a project that features commissioned poems in response to Morgan Quaintance’s film Missing Time, showing at John Hansard Gallery in May and June 2021.

Working with poets, JHG Writer in Residence Ella Frears facilitated a masterclass that enabled the group to explore the themes of Quaintance's film, which later developed in to poems performed on Zoom and Facebook Live. 

In collaboration with Ella Frears, Hannah Cox (JHG Duty Manager) and Nick Makoha and the Obsidian Foundation, the event featured poets Damian Basher, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, alongside Obsidian Foundation members Kondo Heller, Asmad Jama and Kojo Apeagyei, as well as hosts Ella Frears and Nick Makoha. 

Organised in partnership with ArtfulScribe, as part of the SO:Write Literature Development Project.

About Nick Makoha
Nick Makoha is the founder of The Obsidian Foundation. In 2017, Nick’s debut collection, Kingdom of Gravity, was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and was one of the Guardian’s best books of the year. Nick is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and the Complete Works alumnus. He won the 2015 Brunel International AfricanPoetry Prize and the 2016 Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Prize for his pamphlet Resurrection Man. His poems have appeared in the Cambridge Review, the New York Times, Poetry Review, 'e Rialto, Poetry London, TriQuarterly Review, Boston Review, Callaloo and Wasa'ri. He is a Trustee for the Arvon Foundation and the Ministry of Stories, and a member of the Malika’s Poetry Kitchen collective.

Nick Makoha: The Paradox

A Map of Memory

Gaza’s Warmth, from Bread to the Sea

Madinat al Noor – The City of Light, Laughter, and Long Evenings

Gallery Assistance - This is the first instalment of the new John Hansard Gallery Podcast presented by our gallery assistants, Luke Shears, David Baker, Sarah Maccario, Dave Hubble, Sophie Butcher and our special guest Nadia Thondrayen - Exhibitions Curator. 

For our first episode we discuss how the length of time gallery assistants spend with the work can change their impressions of it, the curation of the show and the need for engagement with contemporary art.

Gallery Assistance - Episode One - Gerhard Richter

Alongside the current nationwide project, Ancient Mariner Big Read (www.ancientmarinerbigread.com), our friends in the English Department at University of Southampton have assembled four incredible podcasts, inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Sit back and enjoy!

The Mariner’s Podcasts are developed by the English Department, University of Southampton 

Episode Three
‘In a ship al steereless’: Medieval Stories of the Sea – Marianne O’Doherty  

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale tells the story of the beautiful, virtuous, Roman princess Constance, drifting alone in a rudderless boat on a storm-tossed sea, and eventually washing up on Northumbrian shores. What does this powerful and compelling vision have to tell us about Late Medieval England’s sense of the ocean that surrounded it? 

Marianne O’Doherty is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Southampton. She specialises in medieval travel and pilgrimage writing, geography, and mapping. 

More about English at University of Southampton:
www.southampton.ac.uk/english

About Ancient Mariner Big Read:
John Hansard Gallery is pleased to be a partner for Ancient Mariner Big Read, curated by author Philip Hoare (Professorial Fellow in English, University of Southampton), artist Angela Cockayne and Sarah Chapman (Director of The Arts Institute, University of Plymouth).

Launching on Saturday 18 April, stars of UK stage, screen, music and the arts are helping to transform one of English Literature’s most celebrated poems for the digital age.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is an epic tale of adventure, fear and fascination; a work of 18th Century science fiction that has prophetic messages for the natural world, climate breakdown and mental health globally relevant in the 21st Century.

‘In a ship al steereless’: Medieval Stories of the Sea — Marianne O’Doherty

John Hansard Gallery is part of University of Southampton and is a National Portfolio Organisation funded by Arts Council England.

John Hansard Gallery

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