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 audiovisual designer and visual artist working on multidisciplinary projects grounded in research into social subjects. Her projects take form in photography, sound design, film, textile design and video art installations. Anne’s work is frequently site-specific, collaborative and resonates strongly with the community she works in. Her work often explores the themes of identity, memory and history. She participates and reflects through her work on socio-ecological subjects, to tell stories and to create a role for herself in order to help build vibrant communities and provide a platform for those overlooked. Anne lives and works in The Netherlands.
Anne has a Bachelor of Arts in Audiovisual Arts from the Royal Art Academy of Ghent, Belgium. After graduating in 2013 she began a career as an audiovisual designer and in 2019 she started working fulltime as an visual artist. Currently Anne’s focus is on a variety of collaborative and multidisciplinary 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. Their projects are broadly focused upon identity formation, exploring how current and historic experiences at a micro level can shape and be shaped by events, processes and systems at a macro level. The duo's aim is to create works for engagement both in and outside of traditional gallery spaces and the power of art to encourage social participation.
Their work has been exhibited across Europe in a variety of solo and group exhibitions. Previous projects have been successfully awarded grants and funding through International organisations including: The European Cultural Foundation, The Consulate General of the Netherlands, The Italian Ministry of Culture, Goethe Institut, The Arts Council Malta, The Creative Industries Fund NL (The Netherlands), Arts Tasmania (Australia), Australia Council for the Arts, Stroom Den Haag (The Netherlands), CultuurSchakel (The Netherlands), Viborg Kunsthal (Denmark), Hošek Contemporary (Germany), Ministry of Culture of Karelia (Russia), Municipality of Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Filmboard Karlsruhe (Germany), Artist Residencies Enschede (The Netherlands), Takt Berlin (Germany) and LINZ FMR (Austria).
CV
EDUCATION
2009-2013 Bachelor of Arts, in Audiovisual Arts, Royal Art Academy, Ghent, Belgium
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Virtual Listening, Public Space, FMR – Festival for art in digital contexts and public spaces, Linz, Austria
2022 We Are Here, Creative Communities - Euro-Mediterranean co-creation, artworks in public space, Stigliano, Italy
2022 Sound Walk DIHAN – Does It Have A Name Centre for Performing Art Groningen, Groningen, NL
2022 Installation Solidarity Sky, Open Sites, public art exhibition, Ieper, Belgium
2022 News From Home, artwork in public space, Municipality of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2021 Sounds of Our Cities, Group exhibition, News From Home – Saint Andreu, Barcelona, Spain
2021 Sound Walk Lindenauer Hafen, Armadillo: Gallery for Sound Art, Leipzig, Germany
2021 Naked Windows, The City, Goethe Institute, Group exhibition at Pushkinskaya, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2021 Talk To Me Audiotour, Re-creatie, De Heygraeff, Woudenberg, NL
2020 Talk To Me, sound installation, Klimaatmuseum, Pampus Island, NL
2020 Tasman, mixed media installation, Concordia, Enschede, NL
2019 News from Home – Petrozavodsk, Vykhod Media Centre, Petrozavodsk, Russia
2019 Ice Fold, News From Home – Reykjavik, video installation, SÍM gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
2019 Phantasm, video installation, Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht, NL
2019 News from Home – Viborg, Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg, Denmark
2019 Phantasm, four channel video installation, Gallery Hošek Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2022 Winner UNESCO Media Arts Film Scholarship 2022, Filmboard Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
2022 Stroom Den Haag, grant towards public art installation Solidarity Sky, NL
2022 Municipality of Plovdiv, grant towards public art project, Municipality of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2021 The Social Art Award 2021, Institute for Art and Innovation, Berlin, Germany
2021 Stroom Den Haag, grant towards exhibition Sounds of Our Cities, NL
2021 Consulate General of the Netherlands in Russia, grant towards project Naked Windows, NL
2021 Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, grant towards project Talk To Me, NL
2020 Stroom Den Haag, grant towards exhibition Tasman at Concordia, Enschede, NL
2020 Stroom Den Haag, Promise grant towards project Solidarity Sky, NL
2020 CultuurSchakel, grant towards project Solidarity Sky, NL
2020 Stroom Den Haag, publication, project News from Home newspaper, NL
2019 Stroom Den Haag, grant towards exhibition News From Home in Russia, NL
2019 European Cultural Foundation, Step grant towards project News From Home, NL
2019 Artsbridge Grant, Arts Tasmania, grant towards exhibition Phantasm, Australia
PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
2023 Workshop My (virtual) island home, Tender Absence, online
2022 Workshop Klimaatmakers, Klimaatmuseum, Technolab, Leiden, NL
2022 Performance, Purpose Reporting, Thrive Institute, ABN AMRO Hoofdkantoor, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Presentation, Sounds of Our Cities conference about art, Stockholm, Sweden
2021 Presentation, The City, Goethe-Institut, EUNIC and SPAR, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2021 Presentation Talk To Me, Armadillo: Gallery for Sound Art, Leipzig, Germany
2021 Workshop 'Becoming other-than-human’ at Jan Ligthartschool, Woudenberg, NL
2021 Presentation Talk To Me - De Heygraeff Audiotour, Reinaerde, De Heygraeff, NL
2020 Presentation News From Home at EINA University School of Design and Art of Barcelona, Spain
2020 Workshop 'What has the nature to say', Het Klimaatmuseum, Fort Island Pampus, NL
2020 Workshop City Walk and Collages, Kunsthal Viborg, News From Home, Denmark
2019 Presentation SÍM residency, Presentation News From Home, Reykjavik, Iceland
2019 Presentation Viborg Kunsthal, Presentation of News From Home, Viborg, Denmark
2019 Presentation Vykhod Media Centre, Presentation of News From Home, Petrozavodsk, Russia
2019 Presentation Kattilakoski Culture Cooperative, Presentation of News From Home, Finland
2019 Presentation Takt Kunstprojektraum: Presentation of News From Home, Berlin, Germany
PRESS AND PUBLICATION
2021 The Social Art Award 2021, Institute for Art and Innovation, Berlin, Germany
2021 Talk To Me - De Heygraeff Audiotour, newspaper, article in ‘Let op Woudenberg’, NL
2021 Artist interview, documentary 'Out of Focus' by Maarten de Kroon, NL
2020 Offcity book publication, Selected projects, Pardubice, Czech Republic
2020 The News from Home Newspaper, NL
2020 Solidarity Sky, Radio interview Den Haag FM, NL
2020 Solidarity Sky, News article Mercury Newspaper, Australia
2020 Solidarity Sky, News article The Advocate Newspaper, Australia
2020 Solidarity Sky, News article Den Haag Online Newspaper, NL
2020 Solidarity Sky, News article Dagblad070 Online Newspaper, NL
2020 Solidarity Sky, News article Dutchculture Online Newspaper, NL
2019 Creative Pool GESTALTEN, the project News from Home, Germany
2019 Interview newspaper Viborg folkeblad about the project News from Home, Denmark
2019 News Television, САМПО ТВ 360, (English translation: Duet "News from Home") - Russia
SCREENINGS AND NOMINATIONS
2023 Unfolding, Premiere, International Film Festival Karlsruhe, Germany (Upcoming)
2022 Naked Windows (VR), Official selection Terni Film Festival, Italy
2021 Naked Windows (VR), Official selection Future Vision Festival, Tokyo and Amsterdam
2021 Naked Windows (VR), Official selection Animation Nights New York, US
2021 Naked Windows (VR), Official selection The 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece
2021 Naked Windows (VR), Official selection Venice Architecture Film Festival, Italy
2019 Sakura: An Archetypal Journey, Official selection Tourfilm Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2019 Sakura: An Archetypal Journey, Official selection Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival Online, Germany
2018 Sakura: An Archetypal Journey, Official selection Foca Film Days, Izmir, Turkey
2018 Sakura: An Archetypal Journey, Official selection Zero Plus International Film Festival, Russia
2018 Sakura: An Archetypal Journey, Studio Loos, The Hague, NL
2018 Sakura: An Archetypal Journey, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
ARTIST IN RESIDENCES
Xi·Art Museum, Lucitopia Town, Fuzhou City, China (Postponed)
Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan (Postponed)
2023 LINZ FMR, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria
2023 Tender Absence, Glocal Class for digital performance, Virtual Residency, Germany
2022 Farfara 2031, Virtual Residency, Unfinished Art Space, Malta
2022 Creative Communities - Euro-Mediterranean co-creation residency, Matera2019, Stigliano, Italy
2022 News From Home, Context Air, Municipality of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2021 Virtual Residency 'VITAA –The City', Goethe-Institut, EUNIC and SPAR, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2021 Re-creatie, Reinaerde, at Reinaerde, De Heygraeff, Woudenberg, The Netherlands
2020 Artist Residencies Enschede (ARE), Enschede, The Netherlands
2020 Online residency at Offcity, Pardubice, Czech Republic
2019 SÍM residency, Reykjavík, Iceland
2019 Hošek Contemporary residency, Berlin, Germany
2019 Frosterus residency, Kattilakoski Culture Cooperative, Kärsämäki, Finland
2019 Karelian art residence, Petrozavodsk, Russia
2019 Riddergrade residency, Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg, Denmark
2019 Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
2018 AIR 3331 Residence Program, Tokyo, Japan