Update - summer and autumn 2025

It has been a busy period with several exhibitions, festivals and projects and also travelling for leisure purposes. From June - September I was showing work in the exhibition 100 years of art in Trondheim at Kjøpmannsgt Ung Kunst. In July, a solo exhibition at Surnadal Billag with graphic works from 2024 and 2025, then in August a brief trip to Italy to take part in Cross Cities Festival where I showed a remade version of my video work Immemorial from 1989. The original was a three screen installation, shown on CRT monitors. For Cross Cities all three video  streams were combined into one projection with a stereo sound track that mixed all six audio channels from the original installation. In between Cross Cities and the next projects. I moved into a new, large studio space at Studio E39, Eidsvåg. This is a recently started project consisting of 13 individual studios plus common spaces. September was an active month with projects in Trondheim, as part of Poetics of Space, and Gulen, where PFBD presented our latest site-specific performance as part of the Wrap satellite series. Images below from several of these projects. The next upcoming event will be a week workshop in Venice, further developing the Poetics of Space artistic research project.

Six Songs, digital print series at Surnadal Billag

Print series A Map of Abandoned Strategies, Possible Outcomes and Lost Causes

Song of Iron 1 and 2. Combined digital and screen print

Tiger Tiger, screen print
Shown at Surnadal Billag and KuK, Trondheim

Three Four Two, digital print

Immemorial. Video projection at Cross Cities Festival
Sant' Agata dei Goti, Campania, Italy

New work space at Studio E39, Eidsvåg
Testing out the video projection

Persistent Disequilibrium #5 (string theories)
The latest work by PFBD (pixels / frames / beats / drones)
Video projections on the wall of a silo

A four day workshop and performance at Kjelbju-Låven, Gulen
A Wrap Satellite Production
Trond Lossius playing back field recordings and sounds from software synths

Tijs Ham performing with a new single-string bass instrument
treated through a modular synth
A short video documentation of the performance here.

A performance of James Tenney's composition In a Large Reverberant Space
Performed by SITron (Trondheim Sinfonietta) in Byåsen Tunnel, Trondheim.
Part of the artistic research project Poetics of Space led by Michael Duch, NTNU
Video of the concert here.

Poetics of Space at Veierland

Poetics of Space, borrowing its title from Gaston Bachelard's famed book, is an artistic research project initiated by Prof. Michael Duch of the Music Institute at NTNU, Trondheim.  This week we are on the island of Veierland in Oslo Fjord for a workshop dealing with sound, space and place. Updates will follow as the project develops. To begin, a few images of the location.

A Map of Abandoned Strategies, Possible Outcomes and Lost Causes

Exhibition at Trykkeriet Bergen, March 15 - April 13 2025

New works in silk screen and digital print, produced at Trykkeriet, February - March 2025.

The print technicians at Trykkeriet produced the prints in close collaboration with the artist. Welsh has previously used the silkscreen process multiple times in larger public art projects, including at Halden Prison (2009) and the Østland Terminal at Posten in Lørenskog (2010). With experience as a graphic designer in the late 70s and early 80s, he has long had an interest in a visual language that combines elements of fine art and design.

A Map…. is the title of a diverse collection of visual material produced over the last year. As quite an absurd proposition, the title is a hint on how one might read the images, but is not a recipe pointing to any specific meaning. The images in the exhibition, a selection from a much larger series, are meant to point toward one another and provide an opportunity to read the exhibition as a whole. Many of the images hover between concrete representation and a more abstract expression. Shifts in scale and the building of motifs in several layers combine to open a dialogical space where both the artwork and the viewer play a role in meaning-making. The images are meant to be both serious and playful, and the intention is that the joy of creation is visible in the exhibition.

MOVING Ålesund 2025

 On 20 - 21 February, I participated in this year's Moving video festival, arranged by Aggregat artists' workshop in Ålesund, where I held a lecture on Video Art in Norway.  The speciality of Moving festival, in which I first participated 12 years ago in 2013, is a series of outdoor video projections in Ålesund's public spaces including a pedestrian shopping street and the facades of older buildings. This year's artists were Kaia Hugin, Kjell Bjørgeengen, Stein Henningsen, Ørjan Amundsen, Sara Larsen Stiansen and Zhanna Gladko. 

https://www.aggregatkunst.com/movingfestivalen-25/

Kaia Hugin watching projection of her video
Motholic Mobbles no. 11

Stein Henningsen artist talk in the Moving seminar

Kjell Bjørgeengen's 1984 video Giants Disco projected on the gable end
of an old building