As with most art scenes, there are the usual complaints of claustrophobia, nepotism and cliquey-ness, but also of westerners exacerbating employment, inflation and local culture.

Palestine is very good for art education for its size; it has three large American–style universities in Nablus, Hebron (technically, a polytechnic) and Birzeit, just outside of Ramallah and one dedicated art school in Ramallah.

Palestine was occupied by the British Mandate for a short period of time after the First World War, which coincided with the creation of the state of Israel - before this, it had been part of the Ottoman Empire since 600 CE.

Interview with artist collaborators Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Artroute Palestine author Nathan Witt.

Visiting artists can find work with the large variety of social projects that exist in Palestine. Whether a residency, or for a humanitarian NGO funded project like Campus in Camps, or for crossover groups like Exterritory Project or DAAR.

Curating isn’t what I anticipated would become a central tenet of my practice. I didn’t become a curator via institutional in-house training or graduate from a post-graduate curating course.

Artroute Iceland was written by Alicja Rogalska

Accounts was a six-part show commissioned by Artquest on Resonance 104. 4FM that explored artists’ ways of making and thinking about money.