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2020 - 2021- Developing Your Creative Practice
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.
October 2020 - Chair of the Board of Trustees
I was recently appointed as a Chair of the Board of Trustees for Devonshire Collective, based in Eastbourne. Over th past few months we have transformed and rebranded the gallery space as VOLT Gallery and Project Space. We launched with a fabulous facade commission, Gravitation, on the front of the building by Lois O' Hara and will open open the first exhibition on 29 October with We Didn't Start the Fire by the brilliant Bex Massey, who I have also been mentoring this year!1
I was recently appointed as a Chair of the Board of Trustees for Devonshire Collective, based in Eastbourne. Over th past few months we have transformed and rebranded the gallery space as VOLT Gallery and Project Space. We launched with a fabulous facade commission, Gravitation, on the front of the building by Lois O' Hara and will open open the first exhibition on 29 October with We Didn't Start the Fire by the brilliant Bex Massey, who I have also been mentoring this year!1
As co-founder and Director of A Woman's Place Project I have been working since 2016 on projects which amplify women's voices. Our latest project, conceived pre Covid19, is Our Precarious State. The project explores women’s experience of living precariously, affected by issues that include gender & sexuality, race, neurodiversity & mental health, housing, education, borders & language barriers, underpinned and exacerbated by the environmental crisis.
2021 will include a 9 month period of research towards a longer term project of commissions, actions, and events 2022 – 2024..
Please get in touch if you are interested in contributing to the conversations... I'd love to hear from you.
Our commitment to Black Lives Matter
2021 will include a 9 month period of research towards a longer term project of commissions, actions, and events 2022 – 2024..
Please get in touch if you are interested in contributing to the conversations... I'd love to hear from you.
Our commitment to Black Lives Matter
Mentoring
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.
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.
The Trustees and I have deiced to pause work whilst we evaluate the shifting arts and funding landscape, and HOUSE will go dormant for a while.
The Trustees and I have deiced to pause work whilst we evaluate the shifting arts and funding landscape, and HOUSE will go dormant for a while.
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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