Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Write & Create program / NOVEMBER 2022<br />
Sarah Holding<br />
UK<br />
www.sarah-holding.com<br />
About<br />
Formerly an architect and an academic (publishing books<br />
and articles as Sarah Chaplin), I am now a full-time author<br />
based in south-west London.<br />
I mostly write in the emerging genre of cli-fi or climate fiction,<br />
having published ‘SeaBEAN, the trilogy’ in 2013-2014,<br />
‘Chameleon’ in <strong>2020</strong>, and ‘How to Write a Poem’ in 2021.<br />
This is my first writing residency and I am looking forward to<br />
this precious month at <strong>Arteles</strong> away from my busy family life,<br />
when I shall be working on a new collection of poems, possibly<br />
some short stories inspired by my Finnish surroundings,<br />
and finding the focus to complete the first draft of a new YA<br />
novel. I enjoy going for walks in nature, meditating, cooking,<br />
practising yoga, and trying to learn Japanese. As someone<br />
who also loves meeting new people, drawing and playing<br />
jazz, I also hope to learn something from the other residents<br />
working on the music and art side!<br />
inland finland<br />
I came to <strong>Arteles</strong> with the intention of deepening my<br />
writing practice as a children’s author whose work has a<br />
strong connection to the environment. Whilst (and perhaps<br />
because) I set myself no actual goals, I’ve come away with<br />
a first draft of a YA novel set in Iceland entitled Gap Year, an<br />
almost finished draft of another YA novel I’d been working on,<br />
and a collection of poems and photographs about my time<br />
at <strong>Arteles</strong>. I challenged myself to meditate and write at least<br />
one poem each morning, as preparatory practices before<br />
continuing with my novel, and the photographs were taken<br />
while out on my daily midday walk around Haukijärvi. At the<br />
weekends when I took a break from writing, I made a few<br />
small paintings and collages in the studio. Sometimes I also<br />
played my flute in the music room.<br />
It has been an amazingly vital experience to watch autumn<br />
turn into winter, to feel the temperature dropping and watch<br />
the lake freezing over, to experience a new relationship to<br />
twilight and darkness, and to become almost as hibernatory<br />
as a forest creature over the course of a month. Accepting<br />
and embodying a quietly creative path has become so much<br />
easier having been around a dozen other creative introverts,<br />
watching their process and getting to know what drives them<br />
to make their work.