In Ancient Ground, Anne Martin Walsh reflects on vestiges and indentations—traces in the landscape formed by human intervention and the earth’s natural processes. The accompanying work layers collage, acrylic and oil, holding marks like evidence: part history, part erosion, part memory. Read the full piece in Anecdotes Issue 01.
In Pre-Mobile Era, John Murray considers the human–phone relationship as something symbiotic: we’re attached to our phones, and they’re attached to us. Through drawing and painting, the series records this mutual dependence, anchored by a study of an office secretary from the pre-mobile age.
Maria Markham’s Ráth – A Time Past explores Irish ringforts as landscape memory. Grounded in research, the work maps history, archaeology, and place through photo transfer, stitching, ogham notation, and layered markings. Thread becomes a linkage across time—an act of mending and a postcolonial reflection on land.
Lucy Lambe explores censorship and iconoclasm as anxieties about art’s power—how images provoke fear, moral policing, and institutional control. From Michelangelo’s censored nudes to contemporary interventions, the essay argues that restricting art denies its role as mirror, catalyst, and force for change.
Caoimhe Heaney explores the beauty of the breakdown—how change, even when painful, can open space for growth and new meaning. Her layered photomontages hold imperfection gently, finding quiet strength in vulnerability and revealing the unseen beauty and fragility that emerges through transformation.
Anecdotes — Issue 02 (Winter 2025/26) explores perception, resistance and creative process through contemporary artworks, essays and studio reflections from Nua Collective artists.
Anecdotes — Issue 01 has officially landed on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. If you’ve been meaning to dig into what Nua Collective’s artists are making, thinking, and wrestling with in…
January on Spill the Art Tea brings digital brains, market meltdowns, and painterly calm. From AI and process with VitaliV, to NFT fallout with Poppy Cauchi, and a slower, material-led close with James Wellwood — three episodes, three very different energies.
For Nua Collective – 2025 was a year of showing up. Across exhibitions, publications, podcasts, and platforms, Nua Collective continued to work with artists from different places, disciplines, and lived…
Under the Same Sky marked Nua Collective’s London debut — bringing together international artists in a shared environment shaped by coexistence, context, and care. The exhibition invited audiences to sit…
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