In March 2024, I was artist-in-residence at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, responding to Silences & Stories: an exhibition of the work of Greenlandic-Danish artist Pia Arke. You can see more about the project here: [link]

Research which informed the project

• Pia Arke archive
• Pia Arke, Nuuk Art Museum, by Stine Lundberg Hansen
• Greenland: Uncovering Art History, Nordics.info Interview with Nivi Christensen, Director of Nuuk Art museum
• Ethno-Aesthetics essay by Pia Arke
• Pia Arke, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark exhibition catalogue
• Artist, Ethnographer, Explorer: Pia Arke’s Manifold Voices review by Sofie Krogh Kristensen
• Pia Arke: rewriting the landscape from the ground, review by Marie Muracciole 
• The Implied Truth in Curating Greenlandic Art essay by Nivi Christensen (accessed using Google Translate)
• Tupilakosaurus: Pia Arke’s Issue with Art, Ethnicity & Colonialism 1981-2006, Kuratorisk Action PDF available here
• PIA ARKE / TUPILAKOSAURUS review, BildMuseet, Sweden
• Cultural Heritage Repatriation in Greenland: FROM A TUPILAK’S POINT OF VIEW by ​Magdalena Zolkos
• Greenland’s lost generation documentary
• The Climate Question: Why does it matter that Greenland is melting? podcast
• The first African in Greenland podcast
• A new wave: spate of UK exhibitions signal growing recognition for Inuit and Sámi art review by Alexander Morrison
• The Colony of Good Hope, novel by Kim Leine
• The Prophets of Eternal Fjord, novel by Kim Leine
• The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate, memoir by Nancy Campbell

Project playlist

Arke’s work which I reference

• Old School Map (2), 1992
• Self-portrait, 1992
• Three Graces, 1993
• Arctic Hysteria, 1996