News from Home is a collaboration between visual artist and sociologist Luke Conroy (Australia) and documentary filmmaker and visual artist Anne Fehres (The Netherlands). The core aim of ‘News From Home’ is to engage with the people, objects and stories which make up a local community and communicate these through visual art pieces.
These art pieces take the form of digital photo montages. Each of these montages contains between 2 and 200 individual ‘layers’ which are sourced from the thousands of photographs captured by the artists, alongside archival images sourced from the community in which the project is undertaken.
The starting point for News From Home is the humble postcard. The artists are interested in how the postcard presents highly constructed and idyllic images of a place, yet at the same time fails to acknowledge the more authentic but messy reality of that place. The constructed images of the postcard promote a particular ‘tourist gaze’ of a location, whereby the those who visit a place only seek out to confirm the stylised images and experiences seen in postcards, rather than question them or consider a place on a deeper level. It is this ‘deeper level’ consideration that lays at the heart of this project.
'News From Home' is an ongoing project that has been selected for undertaking in six locations during 2019. See works from these locations below and follow our project on Instagram: @news_from_home
If you are interested in viewing a summary portfolio of this project, click here
News from Home is a collaboration between visual artist and sociologist Luke Conroy (Australia) and documentary filmmaker and visual artist Anne Fehres (The Netherlands). The core aim of ‘News From Home’ is to engage with the people, objects and stories which make up a local community and communicate these through visual art pieces.
These art pieces take the form of digital photo montages. Each of these montages contains between 2 and 200 individual ‘layers’ which are sourced from the thousands of photographs captured by the artists, alongside archival images sourced from the community in which the project is undertaken.
The starting point for News From Home is the humble postcard. The artists are interested in how the postcard presents highly constructed and idyllic images of a place, yet at the same time fails to acknowledge the more authentic but messy reality of that place. The constructed images of the postcard promote a particular ‘tourist gaze’ of a location, whereby the those who visit a place only seek out to confirm the stylised images and experiences seen in postcards, rather than question them or consider a place on a deeper level. It is this ‘deeper level’ consideration that lays at the heart of this project.
'News From Home' is an ongoing project that has been selected for undertaking in six locations during 2019. See works from these locations below and follow our project on Instagram: @news_from_home
If you are interested in viewing a summary portfolio of this project, click here
News from Home is a collaboration between visual artist and sociologist Luke Conroy (Australia) and documentary filmmaker and visual artist Anne Fehres (The Netherlands). The core aim of ‘News From Home’ is to engage with the people, objects and stories which make up a local community and communicate these through visual art pieces.
These art pieces take the form of digital photo montages. Each of these montages contains between 2 and 200 individual ‘layers’ which are sourced from the thousands of photographs captured by the artists, alongside archival images sourced from the community in which the project is undertaken.
The starting point for News From Home is the humble postcard. The artists are interested in how the postcard presents highly constructed and idyllic images of a place, yet at the same time fails to acknowledge the more authentic but messy reality of that place. The constructed images of the postcard promote a particular ‘tourist gaze’ of a location, whereby the those who visit a place only seek out to confirm the stylised images and experiences seen in postcards, rather than question them or consider a place on a deeper level. It is this ‘deeper level’ consideration that lays at the heart of this project.
'News From Home' is an ongoing project that has been selected for undertaking in six locations during 2019. See works from these locations below and follow our project on Instagram: @news_from_home
If you are interested in viewing a summary portfolio of this project, click here
Anne Fehres (1988) is an interdisciplinary artist from The Netherlands, drawing from a documentary film background to explore social and ecological narratives. Expanding the boundaries of documentary film, Fehres employs speculative fiction, XR technologies and humour to bring attention to the challenges of contemporary society. Her multimedia practice is rooted in research, manifesting in digital art, photography, sound design, video and installations. Across her projects, Fehres utilizes digital collage techniques, blending diverse styles and visuals to reflect the dynamic and fragmented nature of digital culture.
Anne graduated in Audiovisual Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent, Belgium. Currently Anne’s focus is on a variety of collaborative and interdisciplinary projects with the Australian visual artist and sociologist Luke Conroy. From their diverse backgrounds they are drawn to projects that are collaborative and engage with social concerns, ecological issues and interdisciplinary innovation.
Since beginning their collaboration in 2018, Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy have developed a research-driven, interdisciplinary practice shaped by international residencies, cross-cultural exchange, and collaboration with artists, researchers, cultural institutions, and local communities across 13 countries. Their collaborative work spans contemporary art, documentary storytelling, and immersive media, with institutional partnerships including the Heritage for the Future (HEFT) consortium, alongside organisations such as the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Eye Filmmuseum, Nederlands Film Festival, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, and the University of Amsterdam. Their projects have received support from Creative Europe, Goethe-Institut, the European Cultural Foundation, Mondriaan Fonds, the Creative Industries Fund NL, and Stroom Den Haag.
Their solo exhibitions have been hosted internationally by institutions such as Hošek Contemporary (Germany), Concordia (The Netherlands), and Pier-2 Art Center (Taiwan), with their work also featured at renowned institutions and festivals like the International Film Festival Rotterdam (The Netherlands), GIFF - Geneva International Film Festival, Dutch Design Week, Oerol Festival, DOK Leipzig, Kaboom Animation Festival, Into The Great Wide Open (The Netherlands), Netherlands Film Festival, Viborg Kunsthal (Denmark), LINZ FMR (Austria), Hong-gah Museum (Taiwan), Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece) and DMZ Docs (Korea), fostering a dynamic, globally connected artistic practice.
Anne Fehres’ work has been featured on Dutch national public television through AVROTROS’s Opium op Oerol and across NPO Cultuur’s public media channels, alongside critical coverage in contemporary art publication Metropolis M (Netherlands) Fisheye Immersive (France) and Art Monthly (UK).
CONTACT
anne [dot] fehres [at] gmail [dot] com
@annewfehres