Resonant Landscapes Open Studio with Athene Greig & Christopher Haddow

ArtHouse Jersey’s Elsewhere Together Residency Series invites artists to forge encounters in unfamiliar terrain, creating new dialogues across disciplines and landscapes.

Over the course of their week-long residency, visual artist Athene Greig and musician Christopher Haddow merge their creative practices in an open-ended exploration of land, sea, and the sensory traces they leave behind. Working with field recordings, analogue tape loops, drawing, painting, and writing, the duo respond intuitively to Jersey’s coastal environment and to one another - bringing the outside in through layered, experimental gestures.

This residency also marks a personal milestone: as a married couple and parents of two young children, this will be the first time since 2019 that Athene and Christopher have been able to dedicate time simultaneously to their practices. Their collaboration reflects the shared experience of being working artist parents, exploring the dialogue, similarities, and differences that shape their individual outputs.

The residency will culminate in an open studio and live performance across two connecting spaces at ArtHouse Jersey’s Greve de Lecq Barracks. Audiences are invited to move between the two environments, experiencing how sound and image interact in real time - from field recordings, live improvised guitar and tape looping, to drawing, painting, and mark-making unfolding before you.

Through resonance, both acoustic and emotional, Athene and Christopher seek to capture the subtle frequencies of place, allowing image and sound to drift, overlap, and settle.

Join us at 7pm on Thursday 30 October to experience the outcomes of this unique collaboration. The evening will be informal and relaxed, so please feel free to bring your own refreshments (BYOB) and stay as long as you wish.

For more information, please contact Producer Robyn Cabaret by e-mail at robyn@arts.je.

ABOUT:
Christopher Haddow is a Glasgow-born guitarist and composer known for his innovative approach to music. His work spans styles from the ethereal sounds of lap steel guitar to the intricate textures of open-tuned guitar. In his Chalford, Stroud studio, Haddow explores soundscape design, field recording, and tape loops.

His musical journey began at thirteen, inspired by a musically rich household. While his peers favoured bands like Limp Bizkit, Haddow was drawn to Americana, folk, and artists like John Frain. During his school years, guitar playing became central to his identity, leading to his first band, Friends from School, which garnered attention from major labels but disbanded before realising its potential.

Undeterred, Haddows talent led to a new project, providing him access to a rehearsal studio for six years and numerous gigs. As lead guitarist in the Glasgow surf new wave band Paper Planes, Haddow further developed his unique sound. He also played with Jacob Yates and the Pearly Gate Lockpickers, contributing to four albums, and explored psychedelic avant-garde with Eugene Tombs.

Now, Haddow steps into the spotlight solo, showcasing twenty-three years of self-taught guitar playing rooted in DIY culture. His textural, minimal approach focuses on creating soundscapes that express inner thoughts through improvisation, embracing unpredictability and emotional depth.

Athene Greig is a British artist who has lived in Scotland and London and now lives in Stroud. She studied Painting at the Glasgow School of Art and from 2015-17 took part on the Turps Studio Programme in South London. Whilst at Turps she was selected by DOLPH projects to present a solo exhibition at Sluice2017.

Group exhibitions include Creekside Open 2017 selected by Alison Wilding, APT Gallery, Deptford and London Open 2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London. Her practice is rooted in painting but also fluctuates between sculpture, installation, film and sound. Working in different mediums allows her to constantly challenge what her practise is and how it takes form. It uses formal painterly languages of colour theory, light and darkness, and takes inspiration from the figurative literary language of female writers.

The work is subtle and sensitive in its nature, using delicate materials such as paper, watercolours, and transparent plastic. Although made intuitively it has a controlled manner that suggests simple yet layered meanings. Her paintings are explorations of gesture, colour and light. She is interested in harnessing a feeling of minimalism to possess a meditative quality and balance feelings of tension with lightness. She wants her work to encourage a lyrical sensibility and intimacy with the viewer.