Auchindrain Trust (Alumni Host, Magdalen College

I think the main thing I took from my internship was to make sure to get stuck in as quickly as

possible. I was undertaking a research project, so I was definitely tempted to spend much more

time reading up on the area I was looking at, but I ended up finding that it was much more

beneficial to start conducting my own tests and developing my own solutions as quickly as

possible. I found I learnt a lot more from implementation actual neural network solutions to

various problems than I was able to learn from reading up about these areas.

Harmanpreet Randhawa, St.Catherine's College, BFA Fine Art, Second Year

Undergraduate, in-person working

During my placement at Auchindrain Trust, I wrote an experimental

research piece and made a short film focusing on the ruinous

arrangements on the site. The project speculated on reading

practices that can allow us to view the ruins on the site through a

non-anthropocentric optic.

I lived with two other interns in a caravan located in the car park of the heritage site.

Auchindrain is surrounded by a very scenic landscape and we spent a lot of our evening

exploring the surrounding forests and hills.

Overall, the internship was very challenging as the site is located in the middle of nowhere. But

regardless I believe it was a somewhat enriching experience; I made my first ever film at the

site which was very enjoyable and it is definitely something that would want to continue in my

artistic practice too.