Anna Boland (England)
Open Studio: Made in Kathmandu / date: 26th April, 2025
Anna is an interdisciplinary artist, based in the South West of England. I’m currently working in sculpture, installation, digital media, projection and light. Her practice is influenced by dystopian fiction, notions of invisible environments and worlds, our internal bodies, and biological forms. She is fascinated with the things we cannot see and making the invisible visible. Recent work has explored the potential of found and everyday recycled materials that replicate functions within the human body, to protect and support our essential everyday existence, through carrying water, electricity, communication networks, and support structures. Allowing the properties and limitations of the materials and found objects to influence the process, methods and outcomes produced.
Jeanne Brasile (USA)
Open Studio: Made in Kathmandu / date: 26th April, 2025
A native of New York, Brasile is currently based in New Jersey, USA. Her work has been shown at the Gwangju Biennale (’24) in South Korea, The Newark Art Museum of Art, Jawahar Kala Kendra Gallery in Jaipur, India, The Mattatuck Art Museum, The Montclair Art Museum, Regis College, and Ramapo College of New Jersey, among other venues. In addition to being a practicing artist, Brasile is an art writer, curator, yoga instructor and meditation coach. She is also the Executive Director of the Hunterdon Art Museum. When she is not traveling or working, she can be found hiking in the mountains or strolling the beach looking for new inspiration.
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Laine Cunningham (USA)
Residency period: March-April 2025
Laine Cunningham’s writing confronts war, genocide, and abuse of power through contemporary lenses. Her recent stories examine an elderly nun from Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, a woman complicit in rape camps during the Bosnian war, and the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia. Patricia Hampl likened one story to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s work, stating, “These characters are often thought of as beyond writing about, but they are the most important to write about.” Ana Menéndez, author of The Last War, praised another piece on the Rwandan genocide as “a rich drama about human cruelty, love, and hope,” prompting its development into Cunningham’s current novel-in-progress, The Grace of the Weaverbird.
As publisher of Sunspot Literary Journal, Cunningham amplifies global voices, with published works exploring the Jim Crow South, indigenous land rights, and child soldiers. Through her company, Writer’s Resource, she supports authors and thought leaders as a ghostwriter and editor. She has taught internationally and been featured in outlets like CNN Money, NBCNews.com, and The Sydney Morning Herald. Her awards include the James Jones Novel Fellowship and The Hackney Award. She previously worked with literary agent Jack Scovil and her fiction appears in journals such as Provincetown Arts and Fiction Southeast.
