The Screaming House - the website for placing a sculpture of Edvard Munch's lost house in Sunderland


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Ice-bound car park (site of Munch's demolished house) with the Winter Studio beyond.


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Artists' houses at Ekely, built by Oslo city on land bequeathed by Munch.


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Skylight of Munch's Winter Studio.


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Jarlsborgveien, the road where Munch's house once stood. Ekely was at no. 14. Modern houses now line the road.


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The circle of trees Munch called his "Pleasure House" still stands. The trees featured in several artworks by Munch.


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Looking towards the site of Munch's demolished house from the Winter Studio.


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Winter Studio with outdoor "summer studio" left (now enclosed).


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THe Winter Studio and Ekely at night.


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Alan O'Cain in Munch's Winter Studio, with photograph of Munch (standing in the same studio) behind, night.


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The Winter Studio - detail.


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The Winter Studio - in residence 2008.


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Creating Kyss (The Kiss) in Munch's studio.


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"To my mind one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link" - Paul Cézanne, letter to Roger Marx 1905.

Kyss (The Kiss) (self-portrait opposite Edvard Munch) ink, wax crayon and acrylic on paper, 2008.