Current (2020...)
Spring 2020
In January I was awarded a Developing Your Creative Practice Grant by Arts Council England and huge thanks to them for supporting my practice. I was due to 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.. Covid-19 has delayed some of the travel plans inevitably but work continues on all of the other areas.
In January I was awarded a Developing Your Creative Practice Grant by Arts Council England and huge thanks to them for supporting my practice. I was due to 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.. Covid-19 has delayed some of the travel plans inevitably but work continues on all of the other areas.
I was also recently appointed as a Trustee of the art space Devonshire Collective, based in Eastbourne. A baptism of fire as we support them through fundraising - also looking to the future as we develop the artistic vision, mindful of the new challenges ahead....
A Woman's Place Project is in development phase as Our Precarious State takes shape. Currently the thinking is to realise a series of commissions and aligned activities which will explore women’s experience of living precariously - affected by issues that include the environmental crisis, gender and sexuality, mental health, housing, education and language barriers.
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Questions I am raising through the research include:
How are we affected by uncertainty and insecurity?
What is the impact of bias and discrimination?
What creative changes can we make to find a way forward?'m also interested in the ability of creative practitioners to adapt and respond to risk and uncertainty, and how their approaches to practice might offer wider society alternative viewpoints in these times of precarity.
Get in touch if you are interested in contributing to the conversations... I'd love to hear from you.
How are we affected by uncertainty and insecurity?
What is the impact of bias and discrimination?
What creative changes can we make to find a way forward?'m also interested in the ability of creative practitioners to adapt and respond to risk and uncertainty, and how their approaches to practice might offer wider society alternative viewpoints in these times of precarity.
Get in touch if you are interested in contributing to the conversations... I'd love to hear from you.
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.
I am 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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