Current (2020...)
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January 2020 - I have been awarded a Developing Your Creative Practice Grant by Arts Council England! Huge thanks to them for supporting my practice. I will be travelling to New York, Helsinki, Madrid, Liverpool and Glasgow (viruses permitting...), working with a great mentor and developing a new project Our Precarious State.
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I started working with HOUSE Biennial in 2019, developing the future strategy and looking at its regional and national position within the visual arts. Interesting to consider new ways of commissioning and developing audiences, mindful of the character and history of the organisation that you are working with. This one is a slowish burn and I'm looking forward to seeing how it all progresses.
A Woman's Place Project is in a development phase at the moment. It's not the easiest time to be raising money and developing ideas - agendas seem quite limited as we continue in this time of economic and social uncertainty. However I'm having great meetings with potential partners, and it's always good to touch base with artists, who have a way of seeing the world differently and understanding that risk is part of the creative dynamic.
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I will be mentoring seven artists through the a-n Mentoring programme this year. I also continue to mentor some other artists - always fascinating and gets me to more studios, having conversations and seeing art ! I was also a selector for the a-n Bursaries in December 2019 - huge congratulations to the 158 successful applicants.
2016 - 2018
A Woman's Place Project
Our 2016 - 2018 programme included new artists commissions, exhibitions (including Liberties 2015 & 2016) , a film and events programme, and a study day.
In 2018 Lubaina Himid, CJ Mahony, Lindsay Seers, Emily Speed, Alice May Williams and Melanie Wilson were commissioned by curators Lucy Day and Eliza Gluckman for A Woman’s Place Project to realise new work at National Trusts’ Knole in Sevenoaks, Kent. The works highlighted the progression towards female equality through the stories of the women who have contributed to the spirit and history of Knole. Home to the Sackville family for 400 years, Knole is the setting for Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.
More info on the Curating page and at www.awomansplace.org.uk
Our 2016 - 2018 programme included new artists commissions, exhibitions (including Liberties 2015 & 2016) , a film and events programme, and a study day.
In 2018 Lubaina Himid, CJ Mahony, Lindsay Seers, Emily Speed, Alice May Williams and Melanie Wilson were commissioned by curators Lucy Day and Eliza Gluckman for A Woman’s Place Project to realise new work at National Trusts’ Knole in Sevenoaks, Kent. The works highlighted the progression towards female equality through the stories of the women who have contributed to the spirit and history of Knole. Home to the Sackville family for 400 years, Knole is the setting for Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.
More info on the Curating page and at www.awomansplace.org.uk
Images:
Top Row:
Alice May Williams, film still from By The Accident Of Your Birth, 2017 (c) Alice May Williams
CJ Mahony, Still Life, Still Waiting, 2018. Photo Jonathan Bassett
Lindsay Seers, 2052selves (a biography) (c) Lindsay Seers & Keith Sargent - 2017
Bottom Row:
Melanie Wilson, Women of Record 2018 A Woman's Place Knole (c) National Trust Ciaran McCrickard
Emily Speed, Innards 2018 A Woman's Place Knole (c) National Trust Ciaran McCrickard
Lubaina Himid, Collars and Cuffs 2018 A Woman's Place Knole (c) National Trust Ciaran McCrickard
Top Row:
Alice May Williams, film still from By The Accident Of Your Birth, 2017 (c) Alice May Williams
CJ Mahony, Still Life, Still Waiting, 2018. Photo Jonathan Bassett
Lindsay Seers, 2052selves (a biography) (c) Lindsay Seers & Keith Sargent - 2017
Bottom Row:
Melanie Wilson, Women of Record 2018 A Woman's Place Knole (c) National Trust Ciaran McCrickard
Emily Speed, Innards 2018 A Woman's Place Knole (c) National Trust Ciaran McCrickard
Lubaina Himid, Collars and Cuffs 2018 A Woman's Place Knole (c) National Trust Ciaran McCrickard
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