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Summer at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
I feel very lucky to have spent the summer in Maine at Skowhegan. A nine-week residency—or school, really—with around 60 other artists, alongside the faculty. It already feels like a bit of a surreal dream.
What a privilege to spend a summer surrounded by so many brilliant, generous and curious artists. When do you ever get to be in a space, cushioned from the world and cared for in such a way that allows for full-time play? Full-time freedom? Each moment felt completely full: conversations, making, learning, performing, moving, absorbing, observing, playing, dancing.
I feel I made a significant leap forward in my work, particularly in response to the environment around me and the materials I found there. I became very interested in working with sticks and found wood, and came away with lots of solid starting points and works that I’m excited to develop. I can’t wait to get back into the studio and see where they lead.
But Skowhegan was about more than developments in the work. It felt like a reconnection to play—to experimentation, to following an idea simply because it was interesting, and to making alongside other people. A reminder, in a way, of the point of it all.
I had a very nice time.
Midnight Moments in Time Square with 'Bod'
Midnight Moment is the world’s largest and longest-running public digital art exhibition, with work synchronised across nearly 100 electronic billboards throughout Times Square each night from 11:57pm to midnight. Bod was shown every night just before midnight in March 2026.
Seeing Bod projected across 92 screens as part of Midnight Moment in Times Square felt completely mad. It was a monumental shift in scale and context. A work that began as an intimate exploration of the body suddenly inhabited one of the most saturated visual environments in the world.
I love that Midnight Moment reaches such a diverse audience, including people who might not usually seek out or encounter art. My hope was that people might pause, and perhaps tumble into another world for a few minutes.
What I didn’t expect was how many people would actually stop and quietly watch. Times Square is such a busy, highly commercial and overwhelming environment, but Midnight Moment changes the rhythm of the square. For those three minutes, it creates a collective pause.
Bod is slow and highly tactile, focused on the internal and fleshy qualities of the body. There was something particularly compelling about placing such intimate imagery in such a public space. The film explores softness and vulnerability, and our own unfamiliar internal bodily landscapes. For those few minutes, perhaps the hard edges of the city soften, and we look up, look around and look inside.
I was sad not to be able to share the moment with Isabel, who I made the film with. She is a very good friend, and seeing Bod take over Times Square would have been an amazing celebration of the project. We are very lucky to share a similar vision, and collaborating together was such a joy.
This was definitely up there with one of those completely overwhelming, pinch-me moments.
'Walking with Clive'
A Weekend of Coastal Commissions in Morecambe Bay Presented by Deco Publique and theCOLAB
21–23 March 2025
The Morecambe Bay Coastal Commissioning Programme is a collaboration between Deco Publique and theCOLAB, bringing artists and communities together to explore the unique coastal landscapes of Morecambe Bay through participatory projects, public installations and performance. These commissions marked the beginning of a longer-term programme.
This was the first time I had presented an outdoor public performance, and it gave me an opportunity to question what sculpture can mean. Is it still sculpture if it moves? If it is soft? If it is worn, performed, or temporary rather than permanent? Where is the line between sculpture, costume and performance?
There was something exciting about taking the work out of the gallery and placing it in such a completely different environment. The landscape, the weather and the presence of the public all became part of the work in ways I hadn’t experienced before.
A big thank you to Deco Publique and theCOLAB for supporting me in making this work, for giving me the opportunity to reach a new audience, and for allowing me to encounter the work myself in a completely new environment.
DAISY COLLINGRIDGE