Desktop Studio Visit: Belladonna Paloma 
Tuesday 5th December, 5-6pm GMT (online) 

Join our latest Desktop Studio Visit with residency artist Belladonna Paloma and Wysing's assistant curator Ruth Dorber.

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Discussion will focus on Belladonna Paloma's residency at Wysing Arts Centre and artistic influences, ranging from medieval women’s writing to bog bodies, exploring themes of desire and spirituality. The conversation will be followed by an opportunity for questions from the audience. 

The studio visit will be streamed live on our Wysing Broadcasts site. 

Access Information 
 
This event will be captioned. Please get in touch with us to let us know if there is something you need to be able to participate in this event, by emailing John Bloomfield at john.bloomfield@wysingartscentre.org. 

About Belladonna Paloma 

Belladonna Paloma is an artist, poet & witch living in Shetland, UK. She paints, tattoos, writes poetry, and makes computer games. Her work is into listening to faeries, how divination disturbs linear time, grief rituals, toilets and necromancy. Bella makes art as acts of devotion. This devotion has recently been centred on Shetland’s boglands, and wetlands more generally, continuing her interest in the politics and mysticism of waste. 

Recent projects include: The Flowering Milk of The Boghead, computer game presented as part of the Vital Capacities online exhibition, ‘Gateways’ (current); The Well of Sickness Shimmering, computer game made in collaboration with Uma Breakdown exploring the folklore of holy wells (launching Autumn 2023 at The Overkill Festival, Netherlands); Bog-lore, solo exhibition at Gaada, Shetland (March 2023); Descent to Kilgrimol Rx, solo exhibition at Abingdon Studios, Blackpool (2022). 

https://sammypaloma.com (artist website) 

About Ruth Dorber 
 
Ruth Dorber is a curator and writer. She studied Curatorial Practice at Glasgow School of Art. She has previously worked with MIMA, Headlands Centre for the Arts, Atlas Arts, The Association for Art History, Understate Projects, and as an artist assistant to Indira Allegra. 

Her practice explores fandom and the role of curator as fan. She runs @gushresidency Glasgow, which works with artists to explore themes of love, care and desire.