Past Work

Although at first sight the practices of artists Addy Gardner and Nicholas Hedges appear very different, the inspiration and meaning behind their work has in fact a great deal in common, not least the role played by both landscape and ...

Between 29th October and 18th November 2010 I will undertake a residency at The Lock Up Cultural Centre in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Aside from being a great adventure - travelling from the UK to the other side of ...

The Past is Time without a ticking clock. A place where paths and roads are measured in years. The Present is a place where the clock ticks but always only for a second. Where, upon those same paths and roads ...

Postcards are a kind of conversation, inasmuch as they're a connection between two places; one that's unfamiliar and one that's known. That's not always the case of course, but their form's a framework - a metaphor - with which I ...

Diaries are windows onto the past. Paintings, films and photographs, all, to some degree offer a similar view, but in the words of their authors, we can in diaries glimpse the distant past as if it was only yesterday. And ...

This work was shown as part of a conference on the Holocaust held at Northampton University. One of the main focuses of the conference was the Bełżec Death Camp, Poland. The individual images which make up the work are all ...

As part of my Umbilical Light series, Echo is an installation of 200 details from three photographs taken at St. Giles Fair, Oxford between 1908 and 1914. The day of this exhibition (Wednesday 9th September 2009) has been specifically chosen ...

On 3rd May 1852 in Cardigan Street, Jericho, Charlotte Noon died following injuries sustained in an attack by her husband. She was just 33 years old when her husband Elijah ran her through with a sword. She was buried in ...

Through being a tourist in places such as Auschwitz, Bełżec and Majdanek, as well as the battlefield sites of Ypres and Verdun, I have become a tourist in the past, the lives of others, and ultimately myself. After my visit ...

The journey into my own past and that of my ancestors began following a visit to Poland in October 2006, during which time I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau. There are, as far as I’m aware, no familial connections with the camp or ...

The Oxford Brookes University Interdisciplinary Arts MA Show 2008 will showcase 12 richly diverse artists all working within a multi-disciplinary framework. Part of what gives this group their integrity is their difference – classically trained musicians study along side film ...

I first discovered Będzin in a book I bought in Auschwitz-Birkenau which contained reproductions of photographs found in the camp just after its liberation. Many of the photographs were those which had once belonged to people who'd lived in the ...

In the past eighteen months I have visited numerous sites around Europe, all of which have witnessed the traumatic events of the Holocaust. The camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek and Bełżec in Poland and Natzweiler-Struthof in France, all once Hells on ...

Dreamcatcher is an installation for the Brookes 'Obsessions' show at Modern Art Oxford in March 2008. Emerging from a series of ideas derived from my work on the Holocaust, it aims to explore the theme of memory, post-memory and moments ...

Like much of my work over the past year, this project has developed through my ongoing work on the Holocaust and sites of historical trauma, including Auschwitz, Belzec and the battlefields of Ypres. Much of that work has been focussed ...

Text taken from the OVADA press release. "OVADA presents Residue: the results of three artists' residencies. Catherine Charnock, Nicholas Hedges and Tom Milnes are all emerging artists who were chosen from open submission. Here they present a dynamic collection of ...

On the door of the room in which the work was shown, the following quote was fixed: "I can never know what it was like to be there, just as they could never know what it was like to leave." ...

"The space beyond us into which we continually dissipate, does it come to taste of us at all? Do Angels take back into themselves only what is theirs, only what has streamed from them, or do they, as if mistakenly, ...

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