Sally Stenton Artist

  An invitation to travel   In collaboration with Caroline Wendling Arts Council England has awarded funding for this project to take place from March  to December 2017. Click here for the project site

Experiments with the edges of walking: a collective reconnaissance  Thesis for MRes (RCA) 2020 Synopsis The enquiry borrows the word ‘edge’ with all its meanings to ask how it might be applied to walking. Walking, in this instance, encompasses both quotidian routine walking and the deliberate act of ‘going for a walk’. There is an [...]

Residency at Brisons Veor, Cornwall November 2nd to 16th 2024 Working with uncertainty to re-discover elements of my art practice. Exploring how writing, walking and making interact and work as containers for the unpredicted. Solitary, but not solitary…company and compatriots in other guises – pebbles, paper, sand, water, vegetables, air and gravity. One of the [...]

Bending as a form of resistance   Collaboration with Kelcy Davenport and Pernille Fransden to explore movement as both metaphor and embodiment of constructive agency. The project references Antonio Negri's Trilogy of Resistance and builds on live rehearsal work  in 2017 of the first play in the trilogy 'Swarm'. 'Bending as a form of resistance' [...]

In search of the unpredicted A piece of experimental writing was prompted by a call for papers, following a conference in Amsterdam where I was due to facilitate a walk. Covid got in the way and I left Amsterdam 2 days before the conference was due to start. This piece of writing became a way [...]

Residency at Cambridge School of Art  Oct 2017 to July 2018 Artist Access to Art Colleges (AA2A) a-n artists network Q&A The walk from art to science along the forensic science corridor and out into the dark - with a smart phone attached to my waist, I recorded the journey there and back. The projections [...]

Project Potpourri: Artist Collectives - A Call and Response In 2023 Project Potpourri called out into the void to other Collectives to come together to create an online publication. Pragya Bhargava, Svetlana Atlavina and Sally Stenton facilitated the process with support from their parent collective -Experimental Space Collective [esc] and from Dr John Wright, lecturer [...]

WALKING BEYOND WORDS Exploring our smallness and the interconnectedness of everything Start date: Tuesday 7th March 2023 [for 52 weeks] A collaboration between Aya Hastwell, Sally Stenton and all the walkers who are participating. In this series of 52 weekly walks we are walking alone, knowing that others are walking also. It is a kind [...]

‘If the cloud allows’ On 16th October 2018 we walked in a circle at the same time in Basrah, Iraq and Cambridge, UK, treading on the same earth and gazing at the same moon. Artist Sally Stenton worked alongside with Dr. Nawrast Sabah Abd Alwahab (University of Basrah, Department of Geology) to bring this walk [...]

unBLOG These pages are windows on the development of thoughts and ideas from the start of my research journey on the one year MRes at RCA which began on 23rd September 2019. The design of this site enables me to disrupt the reverse linear format of a blog. The right pointing arrow connects from past [...]

Taking the walks [for a walk]     Walks with[out] edges generated 52 collages that fused together experiences of walks in different places across the world. The collages were collaged together and printed onto fabric so that we might carry the collaged walks with us on our walks. For 4 weeks we explored ways of [...]

 द्वार : ПОРТАЛ : PORTAL   Walks connecting countries in association with Experimental Space Collective [esc]   The first walk Kazakhstan and the United Kingdom 29th August 2021 A collaboration between Aya Hastwell and Sally Stenton 12 people took a photo as a simultaneous gesture during a walk from their homes. Associations between the images [...]

Walks with[out] edges In November 2020 a year of  weekly walks began with people walking at the same time in different places with a shared, simple non-instructional title. We walked at 7.30am (UK time) on Tuesday mornings. Contributions of words, drawings and photos etc are fused together into a collage each week by one of [...]

[esc] EXPERIMENTAL SPACE COLLECTIVE   Experimental Space Collective [esc] has evolved from online weekly meetings of artists that began in March 2020 in response to experiences of lockdown. We aimed to bring physicality into the virtual space and to exploit and challenge the hostile screen environment, to see how it could work to forge new [...]

  The Listening Stick 2015 to 2019 In collaboration with Judy Nakazato   Revoicing stories of the excavation of a bronze age timber circle from the north Norfolk coast in 1999. Click here to go to the project site Artists Sally Stenton and Judy Nakazato’s art installations in the coastal landscape of Norfolk led them [...]

MUD Collective is a Geology-Art-Sound research collective based in Iraq, France and the UK. Between us we are currently exploring ‘thinking through mud’ in consideration of shifting ideas around human and more-than-human, organic and inorganic, intra-action. Click here for the project site Mesopotamian Mud: the third walk Video and new audiomix – for HERE&THERE collaborative livestream. [...]

Image credits Website design: Alex Abadjieva Collage: Pragya Bhargava A Glass Envelope International Online Artist Residency Facilitated by Svetlana Atlavina and Sally Stenton 9th to 30th November 2020 Click here for Residency website   Artists [and location for the residency] Pragya Bhargava: Gurugram, India Sarah Praill: London, United Kingdom Sylwia Dylewska: Suffolk, United Kingdom Ean [...]

Experiments in back tracking A series of experiments during my residency at Joya:AiR served as starting points for venturing into the landscape and seeking different ways of returning. From the house it is possible to walk in all directions. The unevenness of the ground encourages the use of existing tracks. A few routes are compacted [...]

Sand Castles     2014 - 2015   Hunstanton beach, North Norfolk Series of installations, digital and pinhole photos Photo: Chris Stenton 2015       Photo: Chris Stenton 2015       Photo: Chris Stenton 2015 Video still Image: Sally Stenton Photo: Sally Stenton Pinhole image hand processed in darkroom Photo: Sally Stenton Pinhole [...]

Stone paper cloud Selected for Art Language Location 2016 Cambridge Festival of Ideas Award   2 locations and the walk between Developed in association with Dr Augusta McMahon and Professor Ann Copestake from the University of Cambridge. Click here to go to the project site     University of Cambridge  Computer Laboratory