Join artist Paul Rooney in conversation with Andrea Hawkins, Senior Producer with Arts&Heritage.

The event will explore the use of sound within Paul’s creative practice over the past twenty years including his most recent sound installation ‘Song (After Nature)’ at Lindisfarne Castle commissioned by the National Trust in partnership with Arts&Heritage and supported by Maltings and Newcastle University.

Paul Rooney is an artist/musician based in Liverpool, who makes music with words “investigating the intersections of music, myth, memory and place” (The Wire magazine). His installations, videos and records explore the unpredictable narratives that haunt everyday objects or places, and the comically unreliable nature of narrative itself.

Works by Rooney were included in the British Council show Electric Earth: Film and Video from Britain, which toured to eighteen international venues from 2003 to 2006; and British Art Show 6, which toured around the UK in 2005-2006. He has had solo exhibitions at Site Gallery, Sheffield (with Susan Philipsz), Matt’s Gallery, London and the Liverpool Biennial. He was the winner of the second Northern Art Prize in 2008, and two of his installations were purchased for the Arts Council Collection in 2015.

Andrea Hawkins is Senior Curator at Arts&Heritage, a national visual arts agency based in Northumberland which forges collaborations between artists and heritage organisations to create new perspectives for audiences. Andrea joined A&H in 2014 to deliver Meeting Point and now leads the action research programme of museum training and contemporary art commissions. Before A&H, Andrea was an independent curator working on social art projects with communities for bait Museums Northumberland has held positions at Lanternhouse, Whitworth Art Gallery, Harris Museum & Art Gallery and Arts Council England.