AIR 3
4 - 11 Sept 2009
Image: 'Gilded Shoes' by Katherine Moloney
Artist in Residence Course 2010 is currently recruiting.
AIR 3 is the third in an exciting showcase of new art work and projects by a group of artists who met whilst studying for an online 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 wider community, covering a breadth of artistic practices and projects that explore the interdisciplinary nature of painting, printmaking, textiles, sculpture, photography, performance and installation art.
The exhibition provides opportunities for the public to directly engage with the artwork and with the artists whose residency projects and proposals will available and to hand throughout the exhibition.
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.
Morley College is now recruiting new students for the next AIR course, due to start in January 2010.
Please contact the Visual Art Department for further details:
T: 020 7450 1934
E: stephen.wright@morleycollege.ac.uk
This exhibition has been made possible with support from Morley College.
*ArtyBird is a national online art-education agency, based in Leicestershire
AIR exhibitors:
Carmen Aleman's work involves photography, video and installation. Throughout her artistic journey she explores issues of gender and feminine identity, using power, sexuality, violence, the passing of time, life and death.
Sash B listens to DANCE, installs WORDS, sews PAINTING, cuts across EVERYDAY items, drawing dis-placement, dis-function, dis-articulation. Grounded by the Physicality of a Dance-based Fine Art practice that moves between disciplines and media she gives flesh to Figurative abstrAction.
Linda Duffy creates responses to places and the people whose lives intersect with those places. She is particularly interested in places of transition and change and has worked on projects that map conversations and events with the historical changes of particular places.
Judith Feasey is a painter /printmaker working mainly in oil, watercolour and etching. Her still life paintings form a central part of her work, the subject matter coming from childhood objects and things close to her day to day living.
Anna Hennings' work explores the spatial relationships and phenomenology of the social and architectural spaces that we inhabit and the links between them, creating site specific installations and sculptures.
Stephanie Imbeau's artwork is the product of her exploration of community, belonging, and the role that architecture plays in contextualizing life. She is interested in how homes and the built environment affect the way people live and interact with others.
Jolanta Jagiello is a sculptor who works predominantly in welded and scrap metal and found materials. She has also organised and curated high quality public art exhibitions primarily in non-gallery spaces, She is an AA2A recipient 2008-9 and Digswell Art Fellow.
Katherine Moloney works with a variety of media from plaster to knitting. She makes, finds or collects everyday objects, which she then subverts to explore everyday ideas, some of which relate to her own identity as a twin.
AIR tutor:
Deborah Bird is a professional artist, currently exhibiting at Bromham Mill, Bedfordshire. She acts as a consultant for City & Guilds and was responsible for developing the Artist in Residence qualification in 2005, She is also the course tutor at ArtyBird for the online qualification. She has completed a number of residencies in and around Leicester
AIR mentor:
Veronique Chance is an artist who works in a range of media that are mainly photography and video based but also maintain strong links to sculptural and performance art practices. She is currently studying for a practice led PhD at Goldsmiths College, where she has also taught and is an Associate Lecturer at Wimbledon and Camberwell Colleges of Art.
