annie and mac

A & M at a fireside session -pic by Mary Alice

Caravanserai is a project that just seems to have taken off thanks to all involved… especially to Pete & Debs (who kind of inherited us when they took ownership of the campsite business in 2008!

We’ve had a caravan here since 2003 & being the artists/people we are, work & life mould into one – what was once a space of recovery from work is now a project! and one that we thoroughly enjoy and wish we had more time for (well actually money to buy some time). Anyway, what we are interested in here, is inviting people to Treloan who are keen to explore creative possibilities to do with the local environment and culture.

It’s fantastic to be able to offer a residency space to artists, writers, foragers, geographers (whoever) as their input helps make the campsite special – encouraging a multi faceted sense (or senses) of place. At the heart of caravanserai (a place where companies of people meet) is being and connectivity …with the locality, people, land, environment. Events such as the annual ‘FEAST’ and ‘fireside sessions’ bear witness to this.

Linked to caravanserai is also Annie’s PhD studies with RANE (Research in Art, Nature and the Environment) at University College Falmouth and Mac’s ongoing literary and (Un/Be) Spoken Word projects.

All of our work as artists, or in Mac’s case also as a writer/poet/performer stems from being immersed in particular contexts. We have worked collaboratively and independently for over 2 decades on projects that span a wide spectrum of activities, situations and sites. These include public art commissions, projects we initiate and invitations to work in places as diverse as new build schools, lightships and ferryboats. We’re privileged to have worked with many people from varied walks of life- from writer/poets and musician/composers to technologists, programmers & psychics. The common thread is doing in response to being in a particular place.

other than that Annie is in her element gardening or fairweather sea swimming and Mac is in his, performing, writing or sketching…