ArtSway Associates Programme
ArtSway is pleased to announce the launch of the ArtSway Associates programme offering selected artists training, support and advice over the next three years.
Complementing ArtSway’s exhibition residency and commissioning programme, ArtSway Associates aims to provide legacy support for a selection of artists who have previously undertaken residencies at ArtSway. ArtSway Associates is ArtSway's continuing professional development programme for ten artists who have previously undertaken an ArtSway residency. The programme offers critical support, advocacy, training and seed funding for creative activity over three years. ArtSway Associates is financially supported by The Leverhulme Trust and Arts Council England.
Audiences and arts professionals can access information about the ArtSway Associates through ArtSway Xtra, ArtSway’s regular email newsletter (send an email to artswayxtra-join@artsway.org.uk).
The third ArtSway Associates meeting took place in November, and was led by Nicholas Sharp, an arts specialist lawyer in London. This session was the second in a series of training sessions on contracts development and is being used to develop the ArtSway Associates' contracts. ArtSway Director, Mark Segal, has been meeting with the ArtSway Associates on a one-on-one to finalise the agreements.
The programme has been fast developing, with funding going towards website training and development, publications, marketing, critical input, and support and advice from ArtSway Director, Mark Segal, on funding applications and proposals. In addition to the support offered by ArtSway, a few of the artists are also receiving mentoring from other arts professionals. For instance, Simon Faithfull is discussing his practice with Andrew Wheatley, Co-Director, Cabinet Gallery, while Emilia Telese has undertaken the first of a series of meetings with Robin Klassnik, Director, Matt's Gallery.
ArtSway Associates Artists:
Anna Best
Since relocating to a rural place, Anna Best is currently trying to re-establish herself in the new environment. ArtSway Director, Mark Segal, has carried out a couple of studio visits to offer Anna professional and critical input, and has set up a series of dates across 2010 to continue the process.
Anna has a series of meetings set up with Paula Orrell, Curator Plymouth Arts Centre, across 2010, who will be acting as a mentor, helping to draw from and develop her current practice.
In the meantime, Anna has also been working with Markus Lloyd, on the development of her new website, which is now live: www.annabest.info
Alistair Gentry
Following support from the ArtSway Associates programme, Alistair was awarded an Arts Council England Grants for Arts earlier this year for his new live video / live performance project 'Magickal Realism'.
The project is based on Dr John Dee, the proto-scientist, court magician and fortune-teller to Queen Elizabeth I, who was a much respected scientist in his own time, but subsequently derided as a conjurer and a trickster.
Alistair's 'Magickal Realism' will form part of a much larger, long-term project reconnecting contemporary art with traditional British forms and genres.
You can view a preview of some of the animation, as well as keep up with the project's progression and Alistair's findings by clicking here.
DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
'Magickal Realism' at Colchester Arts Centre
Wednesday 24 February 2010, 7.30pm - 10pm
Alistair will be premiering the long-awaited for 'Magickal Realism' at Colchester Arts Centre.
Tickets are available to buy online or by calling 01206 500900.
For this opening performance ArtSway have organised a FREE coach to the event,which will leave Tate Britain at 5.30pm and return to London for 12am. To book a place please contact
Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (+6) or email jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk.
Further information can be found here
boredomresearch
ArtSway Associates worked with boredomresearch to develop a Real Snail Mail™ brochure, used to bring attention to the project, and have been in discussion about Intellectual Property. The one-day legal workshop for the ArtSway Associates artists, which took place in May, clarified some outstanding questions, and the ArtSway Associates scheme will organise a one-to-one session specifically for boredomresearch.
The artists, Paul Smith and Vicky Isley, had a recent solo exhibition at [DAM] Berlin, where they presented their new work, Lost calls of cloud mountain whirlygigs. Currently, they are working on new work to be presented at ARCO international Art Fair Festival, in Madrid.
ArtSway Associates will be working with boredomresearch later on in the year in commissioning a critical text for a virtual catalogue, and will support the marketing of the artists' presence at ARCO 2010, and have contributed towards the production costs of Real Snail Mail for its presence at Laboral.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
ARCO Madrid, 29 International Contemporary Art Fair
17-21 February 2010. Open to the general public 19 February.
[DAM] Berlin will present boredomresearch at ARCO Madrid 2010. The work presented will be a combination of recent works, to include 'Lost calls of cloud mountain whirlygigs', as well as new work.
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Gijon, Spain
23 April - 30 August 2010
boredomresearch will be part of this group exhibition later on in the year, and as part of this, have set up a didactic version of Real Snail Mail to be set up in a scool as of the end of February.
Hannah Maybank
Hannah Maybank is currently receiving support from ArtSway Director, Mark Segal, on funding applications, and a studio visit from poet and critic Cherry Smyth was organised and funded by ArtSway Associates, which led to the essay Gathering Life in ArtSway's New Forest Pavilion.
A pre-Christmas ArtSway Xtra coach trip took us to Hannah's solo exhibition at Gimpel Fils, London, which was complemented by a great talk delivered by Hannah on her working methods, influences and inspirations. You can view Hannah's recently exhibited works here.
ArtSway is also pleased to announce that the winner of Hannah Maybank's ink drawing is Stephen Morrison from Fordingbridge, who was drawn at random from over 100 entries.
Hannah Maybank. The Visit, 2008
Anne Hardy
Anne Hardy is currently spending time in her studio, working on ideas for forthcoming shows. Mark Segal, ArtSway Director, has conducted a few studio visits and is working with Anne on developing partner projects over the course of the next three years.
ArtSway Xtra organised a coach trip to Anne's recent solo exhibition at Maureen Paley in November 2009, and invited Anne-Sophie Dinant, Associate Curator at the South London Gallery, to give a talk on Anne's work.
Anne Hardy and ArtSway Associates also recently commissioned Francesco Manacorda, Curator at the Barbican Art Gallery to write a text on Anne's oeuvre. The completed piece, Two-dimensional Sculpture byFrancesco Manacorda, will soon be available to read on Anne's website. In the meantime, you can view Anne's recent body of work by visiting her website.
Anne Hardy, Prime, 2009
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva
Please vote before Sunday 7 February for Elpida's Spitalfields sculpture proposal by clicking HERE!
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva is one of eight artists to have been shortlisted for the Spitalfields Sculpture Prize commission. Elpida's proposal, Beauty of Detail, is for a semi-transparent maze of woven metal sheets, using silver and copper silk-like threads to creat new vistas of Spitalfields. The public would be able to wander through its fragile, organic form, viewing the local landmarks in new ways.
The winning sculpture will go on display in October 2010 and will be sited in one of London's highest profile public spaces, Bishops Square, Spitalfields, London.
You can view more on the proposal by visiting Elpida's website.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Spitalfields Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Foyer of Allen & Overy LLP, One Bishops Square, Spitalfields, London, E1 6AD
15 January - 12 February 2010
Elpida's proposal for Bishops Square, Spitalfields, will be on display until 12 February, alongside the proposed works of the other seven shortlisted artists.
Climate change, cultural change
24 September 2009 - 24 September 2010
Elpida's work is being showcased in a group exhibition organised by The World bank and the Embassy of Switzerland in Macedonia until September 2010. For more information please visit the Climate Change = Culture Change website.
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Beauty of Detail, 2010
Emilia Telese
Emilia Telese has a range of exhibitions coming up in 2010 - 2011, with plans afoot for a public art commission from the John Hansard Gallery.
She has already undertaken web development training organised by ArtSway Associates and has also had regular professional development meetings with Mark Segal.
Her radio programme on Italian diaspora, Radio Sophia, is now being aired every Tuesday at 3pm, broadcast from Brighton's Radio Reverb, 97.2FM.
As part of ArtSway Associates' programme, Emilia has been receiving professional development advice from Mark Segal, and recently met with Robin Klassnik, Director of Matt's Gallery, for advice on career progression and critical input.
Dinu Li
ArtSway Associates has been working with Dinu Li on finding an appropriate mentor for his practice, as well as on the development of the third part of his trilogy.
Following the success of the second part of the trilogy which was shown at ArtSway's New Forest Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia, Family Village made its London debut at the Danielle Arnaud gallery, London and was shown by Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong, at PULSE Miami in December 2009. It completes its journey in July 2010 when it will be part of Dinu's forthcoming solo exhibition at QUAD, Derby.
The accompanying publication to Family Village, which contains the artist in conversation with Teresa Gleadowe and a critical text by Professor Gerard DeGroot can be obtained from ArtSway and from the Arts University College at Bournemouth.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Dinu Li at QUAD, Market Place, Cathedral Quarter, Derby, DE1 3AS
3 July - 5 September 2010
Dinu Li's solo exhibition at Quad will feature new work commissioned by QUAD alongside The Mother of All Journeys and Family Village
Dinu Li, Family Village, 2009
Charlie Murphy
Since the success of Charlie Murphy's Kiss-in Event at the Dana Centre in 2009, she has been developing exhibition proposals and is busy with writing funding applications.
Chalie's long-awaited solo exhibition The Anatomy of Desire, the culmination of years of work and kiss-in events, opened on Monday 8 February at text+work, the Gallery, the Arts University College at Bournemouth. More information on The Anatomy of Desire can be found by clicking here or by visiting Charlie's website.
A major publication accompanies Charlie's solo exhibition, and includes three newly commissioned texts by Luce Irigaray, major Belgian feminist and cultural theorist; Leonore Tiefer, New York-based author and sexologist; and fellow ArtSway Associate, artist and writer, Alistair Gentry.
Copies of the publication can be obtained from the ArtSway shop.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
The Anatomy of Desire at text+work, the Gallery, the Arts University College at Bournemouth
8 February - 5 March 2010
Simon Faithfull
Simon Faithfull's drawings, made during the course of Liverpool to Liverpool - a journey by container ship from Liverpool, UK to Liverpool, Canada - are soon to be etched into the stone paving of a new public space in Liverpool. This first major public art commission will be unveiled outside Liverpool Lime Street Station in April 2010.
Simon was recently located at the Mobile Research Station no.1 in Berlin: the half hi-tech Antarctic Research Station / half rusty-broken-dumpster was being used by a group of eccentric researchers as the basis of a research station. But, rather than researching the frozen wastes of Antarctica or the moons of Saturn, the invited artist/researchers began their research into the wilderness and urban zones of uncertainty that still lie at the centre of Berlin...
You can find out more information on the Mobile Research Station no.1, and view a selection of images by visiting the following:
Mobile Research Station No.1 blog
Mobile Research Station No.1 Photographs
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Voyages Extraordinaires. Simon Faithfull and Christoph Keller
CRAC Alsace, France
February - 16 May 2010
You can take a virtual tour of Simon's current exhibition by at CRAC Alsace, by clicking here
Simon Faithfull, Recent Findings at Harris Museum & Art Gallery
27 March - 5 June 2010
For more information on the Harris Museum & Art Gallery please click here
ArtSway Associates is funded by The Leverhulme Trust
