the impossible project (2019/ 2020)

anna tregloan

“The Impossible Project invites in the ideas that never got off the ground. Projects that were imagined but never became more than a sketch, an outline or model. Projects begun but never realised. They were too expensive; too impractical; politically ill timed or unfashionable. Perhaps they simply landed in the wrong place or time; or fell on deaf ears. The Impossible Project is a floating island of unrealised imagination, where ideas collected from a selection of artists, performers and creative producers connect with a new imagination:- that of an unwitting public now privy to ideas never before made public.

It is, most simply, a celebration of the imagination and talent of the artist. It marks out that the projects that reach the public sphere are only a small portion of what is created. It recognises that if all ideas became reality it might just mean we don't have enough ideas. And, it recognises the challenge of change. A good idea in the wrong time or place might become 'impossible' but no matter, it is still much better than no idea.

The Impossible Project imagines a utopia for the imagination.”

The Impossible Project was launched by Anna Tregloan in 2019 to celebrate the unrealised imagination of artists working across all realms of creative practice and continued in 2020 to map projects affected by the impacts of Covid, which devastated arts industries and individuals worldwide. I am incredibly honoured to have been included in both chapters of this beautiful archive of things that never were.

To learn more click on the images above and below to take you to the dreamscape of THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT