Artist in Residence
the Artist in Residence position AIMS TO FACILITATE CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS OF the experience of walking the Athelstan Pilgrim Way
From March 2025, Sheona Beaumont will be working to produce visual art works for exhibition in autumn 2025, to coincide with the final routes launch taking place in September.
Sheona says:
Pilgrimage along the APW is not simply a celebration of the natural environment and church heritage, but rather is part of a living faith tradition.
I see the residency as an opportunity to present a more imaginative and soulful way of seeing and appreciating our world, through the public example of a contemplative and creative photographic practice.
About Sheona’s work
Photographic / collage / kaleidoscopic / transitions / Apertures / lenticular
Composite photography which builds layered images, particularly through habits of repeated looking and journeying. Sheona lives in Sherston, to the west of Malmesbury, and her work for the residency will use photographs taken on her daily walks of the APW routes.
ABOUT Sheona Beaumont
Sheona is an artist and writer whose photographic work explores Christian traditions and beliefs. She has held artist residencies in a variety of ecumenical settings: as Photographer in Residence at St Cyriac’s Church, Wiltshire (2018), at Trinity College Bristol (2014-15), and with Churches Together on Dartmoor (2008). She also writes for journals, photobooks, and academic publications exploring the relationship between theology and the arts.
The Artist in Residence position is kindly supported by the Diocese of Bristol, the Malmesbury Area Board (Wiltshire Council), and Malmesbury Carnival
