Amber Ablett (she/her) is an artist and writer based in Vestlandet, Norway. Using performance, text, sound and re-enactment, her work looks at the importance of belonging to how we be together, with a focus on how our society shapes, reflects, controls and limits our multifaceted identities. Ablett uses her own stories of generational migration and Afro-European descent, as starting points to create a space for questioning, communality and critical thinking; she is interested in how we learn about ourselves through learning about other people and the conflict between our internal and perceived sense of home. Stepping away from spectacle, Ablett often uses workshops and gatherings as an alternative framework to experience art.

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This is one of five free workshops as part of The Fallow Year, where Amber Ablett invites other artists to think about what creates rest for them, and to use the exhibition's frame to explore that. The five gatherings reflect on the exhaustion that can accompany having marginalised stories, and by creating space for people with shared experiences, identities or backgrounds, explore how community can offer moments of restoration and belonging.

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