Category: Would Like To Meet: Quarantine

The photograph was taken during a recent artist residency on 26.11.25 at 10am, whilst listening to the Chemnitz Carillon being played from the town hall of Chemnitz, Germany. The carillonneur sits at a console,
a bench similar to an organ bench, and operates a keyboard with his feet and traditionally clenched right hand and open left hand. There is a key for each of the 48 bells. The keys are larger than on a piano and they are connected to the clapper of the bell by a long steel wire. Only manual operation makes it possible to strike the bells both loudly and softly and with gradations. As we listened it snowed, covering the 3D city map in the square. 

Delighted to share I’ve been selected as one of five Greater Manchester artists to participate in Quarantine‘s ‘Would Like to Meet’ cross border intergenerational exchange, with five artists from Chemnitz Germany.

I am paired with a young self trained artist named Linus Grösel who works across music and visual art.

Here are Linus’s social media accounts if you fancy a follow:

Linus’s Zwischenwelten project website
Linus’ Instagram

The idea is that we will all come together for two residencies in both countries later in the year. Where we will share practice, and make time for each other to ask questions across generations and our cities. It is a very open ended and experimental engagement and I’m really looking forward to sharing my city but also discovering his.

Image: Collection of David Gledhill