Extra Special People: Residency Mania

Magpie from Joanne Masding on Vimeo.

On Wednesday 10 April from 6.30-8.30pm, Eastside Projects are hosting Residency Mania as part of their Extra Special People programme.

Artists and curators currently based in the West Midlands will share their thoughts on and experiences of being involved in a range of international residencies through a series of quick-fire 15-minute talks. Each contributor has experience of working in a different residency context from rural to urban, international to local. Some have developed bodies of research and others large-scale new work. Some have worked in response to historic collections or environments and others in programmes designed to support collaboration between artists and scientists.

Contributors include artists Faye Claridge, current artist-in-residence at the Sir Benjamin Stone Collection, Birmingham (as part of a residency with the Library of Birmingham funded by Turning Point West Midlands) and Joanne Masding, recipient of the Turning Point West Midlands funded residency at Temple Bar, Dublin, and the Standpoint Futures Residency in January and February 2013 respectively. Laura McDermott, Clore Fellow 2012/13 will discuss the Collide artists’ residency programme, CERN, Geneva, where she will be on a three-month placement from June 2013. Design studio An Endless Supply will compare and describe their experience of working with Grizedale Arts in Cumbria and Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridgeshire.

These talks will be followed by questions and informal group discussion. This event will be the perfect time to find out more about how different artists and organisations approach and utilise residencies.

The event is held at Eastside Projects in Birmingham. £4/£2 concessions and free for ESP members.

West Midlands Residency Opportunities

Sketch design by Studio Myerscough via Capsule websiteThere are some fantastic residency opportunities in the West Midlands at the moment which we wished to highlight:

The Lombard Method Summer Residency and Solo Exhibition - Residency and exhibition selected by Helen Legg, Director of Spike Island, Bristol. The residency runs for one month, from 25 July to 22 August 2013, and aims to provide a supportive environment in which to make new, exhibition standard work. To offer critical input during this intense period of development, Helen Legg will visit the selected artist in the studio during their residency. The residency is followed by a 3 week solo exhibition at The Lombard Method. Deadline: Sunday 21 April 2013

Capsule/Library of Birmingham - Creative Residencies - Capsule are welcoming applications for week-long Creative Residencies in the Library of Birmingham. As part of the Discovery Season Capsule and Library of Birmingham are inviting artists, creative practitioners and arts organisations to propose ideas for week-long residencies in the ‘Playground of Discovery’: an exciting and dynamic structure designed by Studio Myerscough to be situated in the foyer. Residencies will need to offer free drop-in activity for visitors to the Library of Birmingham around the central principle of Discovery. The structure will be able to accommodate between 10- 20 people. Deadline: Monday 29 April 2013.

AirSpace Gallery Graduate Residency 2013/14 - AirSpace invites graduating students from BA and MA Fine Art courses to apply for their graduate support scheme, which was introduced in 2012. Residents are offered a shared studio space within AirSpace for 6 months, monthly suppory meetings, a solo show at the end of the 6 month period within AirSpace and access to all studio facilities and support structures.

Adam Gruning, Graduate Residency Artist, 2012 said:

"I would definitely recommend the residency to other artists looking for opportunities after University. The residency offers the valuable debut solo show opportunity artists dream of as well as a supportive artist community that makes the transition from University to practicing artist positive, productive and enjoyable."

Deadline: Monday 3 June 2013

For information on residencies and more, sign up to the Turning Point West Midlands Artists' News and Opportunities Bulletin which is send to your inbox every 3 weeks.

TPWM Artists in Residence: Juneau Projects Make Music in Worcester

Artist-duo Juneau Projects are to create an album of songs for people to download at locations in Worcester.

The Worcester-based residency, one of five TPWM artist-residencies awarded to institutions in the region, is being led by the University of Worcester, working in partnership with Movement Gallery and Worcester City Art Gallery.

Juneau Projects will be in Worcester in early 2013 to research and develop new work in, for and with the city.  Building on their long-term project of collaborative music making, they will produce a short album of songs downloadable for free via contemporary ‘shrines’ to the sometimes perverse and always weird back-to-nature techno-urban 21st century culture of modern Britain.  

The shrines will relate to the city centre venues in which they are housed. After a period of on-site research in February and March, they plan to write and record a song for each venue, collaborating on the songwriting and recording process with venues’ users. Juneau Projects will present the outcomes of their work in May, when Worcester residents and visitors will be invited to gather all the tracks that have been produced by plugging a USB stick into the shrines located in each venue taking part. They hope that experience of collecting the songs will offer an antidote to the ever increasing speed of the worldwide web.

News from Turning Point West Midlands

Turning Point West Midlands has been busy rolling out its TPWM Projects with its partner lead organisations: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, New Art Gallery Walsall, The National Trust, New Library Birmingham, Worcester University, Eastside Projects, Grand Union, and Writing West Midlands.

 

New Art West Midlands (NAWM)

As part of this new BA/MA graduate exhibition in 2013, four artist bursaries have been awarded. The bursary artists are: Rashid Khan (University of Wolverhampton); Stuart Layton (University of Worcester); Sophie Bullock (Birmingham City University and Corey Hayman (Coventry University).

NAWM will take place at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery from Friday 15 February to 19 May 2013,  The Barber Institute from Friday 8 March to 19 May 2013 and Grand Union from Friday 15 February to 16 March 2013.

The New Art Gallery Walsall (NAGW) and Artist Development

A range of professional opportunities are being offered to artists through the NAGW/TPWM partnership including a 6 week artist residency at NAGW's studio.

The selected artist is Pak-Keung Wan. He has an MA from the Royal College of Art and is based in Birmingham. Pak-Keung will use the residency to develop Lune – a series of painstaking pencil drawings that link to a publication by NASA, and an animation. 

The National Trust

In partnership with TPWM, the National Trust have set up a new Artist Residency opportunity at Dudmaston Hall. The recipient will be announced on the TPWM website soon.

Eastside Projects

Stuart Whipps and Joanne Masding have been awarded the first Heterotic residencies, funded by TPWM, at Spike Island and Temple Bar Gallery and Studios respectively. Both artists will be resident during February 2013. 

New Library Birmingham

The Artist in Residence Faye Clarridge is currently showing work at the Towner Art Gallery. 

New TPWM Flyer

TPWM with Fraser Muggeridge Studio has produced a new flyer. With a minimalist but vital message`Visual Artists' Support/Support Visual Artists' the purpose of the flyer is to lead people to the TPWM website where they can find a wealth of information covering all aspects of the visual arts in the West Midlands and beyond the region.

TPWM Visual Arts Forum

Wolverhampton Art Gallery hosted the forum lead by represenatives of artist collectives from across the region. Professor Nabeel Hamdi followed with an inspiring talk on `Small Change'.

This is just a snapshot of the activity taking place across the region.

Artist Development: Residency at the New Art Gallery Walsall announced

The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to announce that Birmingham-based artist Pak-Keung Wan has been selected for a 6-week practical studio residency (12 November-22 December 2012), which has been offered in partnership with Turning Point West Midlands.

Wan will use the residency to develop Lune, an ongoing series of painstaking pencil drawings inspired by a NASA publication detailing all 11,898 solar eclipses over a 5000 year period. Time will be given over to animating these drawings through daily projections onto the walls and surfaces of the studio and via static electronic screens within the space.

The selected artist articulated a clear and original vision for the residency, which will see the studio collapsed into a site for production, presentation and discourse around the work and the NASA material at its source.  

Please note that the Gallery is unable to offer individual feedback to applicants in connection with this artist development opportunity. 

Eastside Projects offering two Artist Residencies in Bristol and Dublin

The Heterotic I

Application deadline: Monday 29 October

Eastside Projects is delighted to offer two residencies in partnership with Spike Island in Bristol and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios in Dublin. These residencies are open to all artists based in the West Midlands and offer time and space to develop work and ideas as well as new networks and professional connections. They are funded by Turning Point West Midlands.

Both residencies will run for one month, from 1st February to 1st March 2013.

Each residency artist will receive:
A Fee of £1000
Studio space and access to other facilities
Travel costs to and from the West Midlands
Critical input and mentoring

For full details click here.
For application form click here.

Please click on the following links for more information about Eastside Projects and the Extra Special People programme. 

Artist Development: Residency opportunity at The New Art Gallery Walsall

The New Art Gallery Walsall is offering a 6-week practical studio residency opportunity from 12 November to 22 December 2012, for an artist or artist collective working in any medium. The selected artist(s) will have exclusive access to the Gallery’s studio space. The outcome of the residency will be self-determined, allowing room for experimentation and/or the development of a new or existing project. Artists are also invited to respond to the architecture of the Gallery and its collections.

The resident artist(s) will have an introduction to Gallery staff and will receive curatorial input and support. Other resources include access to the Gallery’s art library and archive, and to a permanent collection of historical, modern and contemporary art.

This opportunity is only open to artists from the West Midlands.  

Budget:

£1500 artist fee

Up to £250 for travel and materials

Deadline: 9am, 29 October 2012

Residency announced: 5 November 2012

To download an application form, please click on the links below:

WORD                      PDF

Please send your application by email to Zoe Lippett, Exhibitions and Artists' Projects Curator at The New Art Gallery Walsall: LippettZ@walsall.gov.uk

Artist Faye Claridge exhibits work from residency with Library of Birmingham

Image: Doc Rowe, Padstow Oss Mayday © Doc Rowe

Library of Birmingham artist in residence Faye Claridge is contributing to an exhibition at Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne entitled Collective Observations: Folklore & Photography from Benjamin Stone to Flickr.

Faye Claridge's work is made in response to the Sir Benjamin Stone collection as part of the residency, which is supported by Turning Point West Midlands.

Since 1897, when Sir Benjamin Stone established the National Photographic Record Association (NPRA), photographers have had a fascination with the rites and rituals of Britain. Photography and folklore practice have a complimentary relationship – the medium of photography captures the ephemeral moment. Despite existing in the here and now, both photography and folklore are an act of remembrance. Photographs act as a repository of these fleeting happenings, and constitute an artefact of folklore in themselves.

Exhibition runs: 13 October 2012 - 6 January 2013.