News July 2008
Morley Gallery in association with ‘ArtyBird’ proudly present: -
An exhibition of 'Artist in Residence' work
by
Seetha A, Ceiren Bell, Christina Eberhart, Georgina Evans, Tracey Fah, Sarah Forrester, Effie Fotaki, Nina Gehl, Lorna Giezot, Natasha Morrison, Viv Philpot, Isabella Pitisci
Opening event: Wednesday 16th July 2008, 6-8pm
Morley Gallery Gallery. 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London. SE1 7HT
Tel: 020 7450 1826 Fax: 020 7928 4074
Exhibition open to the public:
from 17th July until 24th July inclusive
Artists in Residence (AIR) is an exciting showcase of new art work and projects by 12 artists who met whilst studying for an Artist in Residence Award in association with ‘ArtyBird’ and Morley College, London.
The exhibition aims to demystify and raise public awareness about what it is to be an Artist in Residence by showing how the participating artists approach working within the public arena and how their work and related activities can benefit the local community and beyond.Focusing on the artist’s own practice and its relationship to project proposal and development, the exhibition promotes the importance and benefit of the role of the Artist within the community, covering a breadth of artistic practices and projects that include painting, drawing, textiles, sculpture, photography, video, animation, performance and installation art. The exhibition provides opportunities for the public to directly engage with the artwork and with the artists and to acquire new skills, through participation in artist-led workshops to be held in the gallery throughout the exhibition (contact the gallery for details).
Initiated and curated by Veronique Chance, artist and AIR Project Mentor, this exhibition is an independent step forward for these artists who, having completed the Artist in Residence Award, have the opportunity to showcase their work and to reflect on their professional artistic practice.This exhibition has been made possible with support from Morley College and the Royal Female School of Art Foundation.
AIR exhibitors:
Seetha A and Kenneth Hay
(Moorland Productions) take an open and experimental approach to a variety of media, exploring social and historical themes such as tourism and European integration.
Ceiren Bell
uses animation to explore the medium’s core ability to engender empathy and enchantment for viewer and practitioner alike, and has an interest in both its cultural and practical accessibility.
Christina Eberhart
concentrates on the dialogues between imagination and the everyday through the use of a variety of media and skills such as painting, drawing, photography, crochet and sewing.
Georgina Evans
mixed media practice explores embodied experiences, including the physical, the emotional, identity, relationships, solitude, touch and breath.
Tracey Fahy
uses various pinhole, low-tech and toy cameras to produce images, which are artificially aged and represent a hazy sense of memory.
Sarah Forrester
works with unusual partnerships of museum-quality antiques and curiosities, which are then married up photographically as “fictional objects”, to later become individual sculptures.
Effie Fotaki
documentary photographs focus on the visual culture of the city and the urban environment through the extensive study of her local community
Nina Gehl
works from photographs, postcards or found images to produce paintings which, through layers and textures, explore notions of the banal, the sense of loss and the representation of memory
Lorna Giezot
practice focuses on perception and how it is shaped by sensory experience, and explores the boundaries between art and other subjects
Natasha Morrison
mixed media work represents natural phenomena using artificial ingredients to reacquaint the viewer with their innate sense of wonder
Viv Philpot
creative textiles practice explores the increasingly uncomfortable relationship between the natural and the man-made worlds
Isabella Pitisci
work combines conceptual rigor with the everyday, the mechanical with the sensual, and is concerned with memory and the archive.
April 2008
Tracey Fahy at the Hayward Gallery
Tracey Fahy's photograph entitled 'Trash' was one of the ten winning entries of The Hayward flickr Rodchenko photography competition, selected by Hayward curators.
These selected images were displayed on plasma screens in The Hayward foyer from 14 - 27 April 2008.
Tracey Fahy is currently studying towards the ArtyBird Artist in Residence qualification.
April 2008
Artist in residence qualification comes to Leicester
During 2008 in association with Creative Braunstone and Braunstone Working, ArtyBird will bring the exciting new City and Guilds approved ‘Artist in Residence’ training programme to selected artists in Braunstone, Leicester.
This course which is sponsored by Creative Braunstone and Braunstone Working is aimed at artists wishing to pursue a career within the creative industries.
Artists will carry out a series of assignments designed to build ideas, confidence and planning strategies for residency work.
November 2007
Moira Lovell wins Jerwood Photography Prize
Congratulations to Moira Lovell one of our graduating students. Moira is one of 5 to win the prestigious Jerwood Photography Prize. Moira graduated from the ArtyBird Artist in Residence Qualification in 2007 and has an M.A. in Photography.
‘Moira's current body of work involves taking young women out of school themed nightclubs and placing them, still wearing their 'fancy dress', in a new but not totally irrelevant space. This body of work has grown out of preliminary photo-sketches taken at such themed clubs, these documentary photographs show girls, under the influence of alcohol, flaunting themselves in revealing uniforms. The clubbers gyrate provocatively; emulating lap dancers with porn star facial expressions. Is this the influence of media imagery, informing the sexual identity of women or their own sexual instinct? Furthermore their routines appear to be aimed squarely at the opposite sex. Lovell's club shots invite the spectator to question the positioning of feminism within today's society.’
The 2007 Jerwood Photography Awards Exhibition
9 November - 9 December
Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN