Ane Hjort Guttu (b. 1971) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Oslo. She works across a range of media, with a particular focus on text and moving images. Her practice explores the relationship between freedom and power, how we navigate public space, individual autonomy, and the social, economic, and political conditions of art. She has an extensive exhibition practice both nationally and internationally, and has also published several books, the most recent of which will be released in 2026. Ane Hjort Guttu is a professor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Image of Ane Hjort Guttu, courtesy the artist.

‘Time Passes’ (2015), Ane Hjort Guttu. As installed for ‘eating or opening a window or just walking dully along’ (2015), The International Festival Exhibition, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway

Ane Hjort Guttu’s film Manifesto (2020) will be shown at CAST in 2026. The film speculates on the aims and purposes of institutional art education. Newly migrated into a university and an open-plan campus building, an art school feels cornered by a suffocating culture of surveillance and administration. Staff and students find ways to subvert control through secret operations. Drawing on her own experiences as an art teacher, Ane Hjort Guttu explores what is lost when creativity is replaced by order and provides action plans for how to be the playful rebel.

 ‘Manifesto’ (2020), Ane Hjort Guttu. Photo: Patrick Säfström.

Film still from ‘Manifesto’ (2020), Ane Hjort Guttu. Image courtesy the artist.

‘Manifesto’ (2020), Ane Hjort Guttu. As installed in the exhibition ‘The Practice of Everyday Life’ (2025-26), CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France.

Adam Chodzko is a multimedia artist exploring collective imagination – its visions, knowledge, desires, ambiguities and contradictions – as it shapes our connections with each other and the worlds we inhabit. His ‘sci-fi’ works often take the form of searches; trying to see collectively, in relation with others. But also trying to glimpse with others what we’re keen to look away from.His heterogeneous body of work ranges across video, performance, drawing, sculpture and socially-engaged processes.

Adam Chodzko’s work is widely exhibited both nationally and internationally. He has also lectured or tutored at Art Schools in the UK, the USA and Canada. Chodzko is currently undertaking a practice-led PhD exploring the collective nocturnal dreams of a community via AI and indigenous dreamwork.

‘Woven time – a girdle of fig leaves’ (2023), Adam Chodzko. Courtesy the artist.

Adam Chodzko. Photo © Richard Boll.

Teresa Gleadowe is a curator, writer and editor with extensive experience in the contemporary visual arts in the UK and internationally. She initiated The Falmouth Convention held at University College Falmouth in 2010 and The Penzance Convention held at Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange in 2012 and has developed the ongoing series of Cornwall Workshops held at Kestle Barton on the Lizard peninsula. In 2012 she founded CAST (the Cornubian Arts & Science Trust) based in Helston. She was the Director of Groundwork, a three-year project developed in partnership with Tate St Ives, Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange and Kestle Barton, which culminated in a programme of international contemporary art in Cornwall in 2018.

In 1992 Teresa developed the first UK-based MA in curating at the Royal College of Art and directed the programme until the summer of 2006, when she left the college to work freelance. She was Research Consultant and Series Editor for the Exhibition Histories series published by Afterall and has taught on curatorial programmes internationally. She was a Trustee of Nottingham Contemporary from 2006 to 2015, latterly as Chair, and is a Trustee of the Art Monthly Foundation and the Kestle Barton Trust.

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Participant Biographies

Twelve participants were selected from the open submission: Holly Antrum, William Arnold, Anna Boland, Bronwen Buckeridge, Neil Chapman, Josie Cockram, Laura Hopes, Joe Lyward, Mark Leahy, Garry Loughlin, Ben Sanderson, and Robin Phoenix Whitehouse.

Based in Stroud, Gloucestershire, Holly Antrum is currently working on an expanded script project, entangled with the quest for the fictional voice of a narrator for a new artist film. Sitting behind this is a serial artwork engaged with a semi-fictional navigation of the BFI National Archive, titled Markéta’s Notes. The development of this project has taken the forms of making artist books, interviews, a performance, and a curated Mixtape screening of archival film extracts, including the work and interests of filmmaker and theorist Peter Wollen, and seven short episodes of her own moving image project at the British Film Institute (2023). Holly is currently completing a PhD by Practice at Kingston School of Art and the British Film Institute and is also an Associate Lecturer at Bath Spa University. Holly’s films are distributed by LUX Artists’ Moving Image.

William Arnold is an experimental, conceptual and documentary photographer, interested in the layers of human and natural history that comprise the making of the landscape, and the role played by the photograph in documenting time and change – the subjective and objective politics of places and their histories. In 2019 he co-founded the Some Interesting Apples research project concerning the propagation of novel Malus cultivars from chance seedlings via public taste trials. He is a long-term tenant of a large vegetable garden – striving towards a degree of self-sufficiency while conducting horticultural experiments – and teaches photography at Falmouth University on the BA Marine & Natural History programme and the BA Photography online.

Anna Boland is an interdisciplinary artist based at KARST studios in Plymouth. Fascinated by the unseen, she explores the invisible architecture of bodies, the hidden scaffolding of our environments, parallel worlds, and elusive forces made tangible through sculpture and installation. Her practice uses found and everyday materials to replicate bodily and infrastructural functions, from carrying water and electricity to supporting communication networks and structural frameworks. Process is central to her work, and material led exploration generates forms that sit between the familiar and the uncanny, evoking bodily presence while referencing environmental systems. She is currently investigating antibodies and dark matter. Though vastly different in scale, both are understood through their effects, and she is exploring sculptural strategies to give form to these invisible systems and make the unknown tangible.

Bronwen Buckeridge is a Senior Lecturer at Falmouth School of Art and has a studio at CAST in Helston. Sound recording and language are central to her work: ‘When I’m not recording, I like to engage with small communities, stepping into the role of witness, translator and producer, gently remixing and shaping what I find into performative events, installation and artist books.’ Previous works include a live pigeon race, conversations with dogs, and an earthwork offering for wild boar, made with the assistance of a gamekeeper and a coven of witches. She is currently making a series of recordings and writings around the Helford River.

Neil Chapman is a researcher, writer and artist. He describes his current work as being based on developments arising from his PhD studies (completed in 2011) ‘which looked at the history and currency of writing as the practice in practice-led research’. Currently in progress is a collective endeavour with writer and artist David Stent, These Weak Kindnesses , written in response to the 187 collages in Max Ernst’s Une semaine de bonté (1934). Neil has recently left his job teaching Critical Studies as Senior Lecturer at Falmouth University. In the past, publishing has been part of his practice and he hopes soon to relaunch his imprint entitled ‘scenesadventures’.

Laura Hopes’s work focuses on the shifting relationship between land and people in rapidly changing climates. She has lived on the edge of Dartmoor for more than 20 years and is currently developing new work that communicates the ecological urgency of an overlooked landscape at the tipping point – upland peat bog. Her practice draws upon multiple forms of knowledge and is open to collaboration and working communally.Through extensive collaboration within the collective Still Moving, and with other academics, experts and artists in diverse fields, it stretches to encompass multi-disciplinary research, writing, dramaturgy, film, performance and installation.

Mark Leahy is an artist and writer based in Totnes, Devon, working with text, image and performance. He makes solo and collaborative performance works using language, gesture, and digital interfaces to examine how individuals are shaped by or can resist cultural and social forces. Elements of humour, repetition, references to high and low culture, thread through the work allowing audiences to make connections, construct narratives, or recognise patterns. Through his work with CAMP CIC, Mark is active in peer networks supporting artists’ activity in the South West. He teaches part-time and offers research supervision at university level.

Garry Loughlin is a lens-based artist whose work interrogates power, territorial control, and the ways in which narratives are shaped and asserted. Through photography, writing, and archival material, he explores the intersection of history, myth, and geopolitics, questioning how authority is inscribed onto landscapes and collective memory. His practice is driven by a curiosity for micro-histories — seemingly peripheral events that, when examined, reveal deeper structures of influence and control. He often combines archival material with his own imagery, to create a fragmented aesthetic that reflects the complexities and contradictions of contested spaces. Brought up in the Republic of Ireland, he now lives in Bristol.

Currently Assistant Curator for Young People (Partnerships) at Tate St Ives, Joe Lyward commissions artists to work with schools, youth groups and marginalised communities. Since 2022 he has also run Hweg, a small gallery located within a former shop and home on Penzance high street, which presents projects created by local, national, and international artists. Joe has a special interest in re-invigorating modern artworks through dialogues with contemporary practices and new audiences.

Joe grew up in North Cornwall. His previous positions include learning and engagement roles at Kettle’s Yard, The Box in Plymouth, and Hayward Gallery Touring. He has an MA in Children’s Book Illustration.

Working across painting, drawing, printmaking, and textiles, Ben Sanderson describes his practice as developing slowly, embracing cyclical processes of growth and decay. He often transforms or recycles existing works, treating his archive of paintings as an open space that can be reshaped and reimagined through making.

Over the past eight years, his work has extended into schools, universities, gardens, care homes, galleries, museums, shops, and domestic spaces. He is interested in how art can act as a tool or navigator for experiencing life, and how shared engagement with practice can create spaces for growth and understanding. Alongside his studio work, he runs workshops and teaches part-time as an Associate Lecturer at Falmouth University.

Robin Whitehouse is currently working on interventions/ happenings in public space in the Netherlands, using publications and video to record. Alongside this he is working within a framework of institutions related to archeology and art education in a project about the rise and fall of an educational plaster cast collection. Robin grew up on the Lizard peninsula near Mullion and then the village of St Martin and has studied and developed his artistic practice across Europe, but is now taking steps to spend more of his time back in Cornwall.