Residents / Interdisciplinary Residency March 2016

UK, Visual Art – selected with Tottenham Hale International Studios

Carla Cruz is a London-based artist from Portugal whose ongoing project All My Independent Women experiments with forms of collectivity, the erasure of authorship and practices that take place outside and in defiance of the mainstream art system. Cruz’s research has resulted in the genesis of a community cultural centre in Guimarães, rural Portugal called RASTILHO. Carla has recently completed the residency Finding Money at Open School East, London with the artist Antonio Contador. Cruz is a Research Associate for Goldsmiths University of London, based at the community centre in Walthamstow – The Mill.

Carla Cruz joined the Interdisciplinary Residency at Hospitalfield in March 2016. Her main focus was on an exploration of greatness and goodness, particularly in respect to Carol Sheild’s latest novel ‘Unless’. She was considering the writing as a framework to critique the ‘art world’ system and other established norms of progress.

http://carlacruz.net

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UK, Artist/Curator

Charlotte Cousins an artist and curator, with a First Class BA (Hons) from Bath Spa University. Charlotte’s practice attempts to depict the solid lucidity of human memory. Utilising film, the photographic and sculptural materials.  She’s recently completed her first residency in Athens, Greece with the help of the Snehta program. Currently looking towards her upcoming solo show at the Lauriston Arches, Glasgow, (August 2015). She is also expecting her first interview as a contributor to Young Artists In Conversation to be published online in the same month.

http://www.charlottecousins.co.uk

USA, New Media, Performance

Eddo Stern is an artist and game designer. He works on the disputed borderlands between fantasy and reality, exploring the uneasy and otherwise unconscious connections between physical existence and electronic simulation. His work explores new modes for narrative and documentary, experimental and multidisciplinary computer game design, and cross-cultural representation in new media. His work has been widely exhibited at international venues including The Tate Gallery Liverpool, Reina Sofia, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, The ICA, The Hammer Museum, The New Museum in NYC, The Rotterdam Film Festival, ICC Tokyo, The Sundance Film Festival, and The Art Gallery of Ontario.

http://eddostern.com/

UK, Composition, Writing, Performance

Dickson, Duncombe and Kampman are Glasgow based artists whose work explores voice as object, the instability of meaning, and using sound to unsettle the balance between perception and reality. Labyrinthine, their debut work together which premieres at La Monnaie, National Opera of Belgium in October 2015, aims to deconstruct the apparatus of opera, particularly how women sound – in words and music – through the juxtaposition of classical structures, fractured narratives and plastic vocals. Their collaborative approach to text and sound allows them to challenge traditional modes of production within opera, particularly the hierarchy of librettist – composer – performer.

UK, Writing, Directing

Jessica Fox’s love of stories began at five years old when reality betrayed her and dressing as Superman did not in fact grant her super powers. A graduate of Prague’s National Film School, Fox founded Mythic Image Studios making shorts, documentary, music videos and commercials. Most recently, Fox directed Shakespeare: The Puppet Show at the Victoria Albert Museum, is adapting her first novel, Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets for screen and is co-creating Never After, a fairy tale series featuring Gillian Anderson. Fox was a resident storyteller at NASA and feeds her inner nerd media consulting for science organisations.

http://www.jessicafox.info

UK, Painting

A recent graduate from the Glasgow School of Art, and now regularly exhibiting, Judith Hagen works from the East End-based Crownpoint Studios. Dealing largely in realms of painting and writing, the work occupies emotional and metaphysical spaces and landscapes and human histories, searching through ideas of social narratives, solitude and personal mythologies, and the sometimes sad and absurd contrasts between reality, humanity and worldly beauty. The themes Hagen deals with stem from a wide range of sources; literature, philosophical writings, ideas of reality, time and space, and also world myths, histories and religion.

http://judehagan.blogspot.co.uk

Canada, Visual Art, Sculpture

Marie-France Brière has, for several years, oriented her research towards sculpture that explores multiple avenues within its shifting practice, and that raises, amongst others, questions around relationships of surface, permeability, and opacity. In addition, and more recently, she has devoted her attention to public art, seeking through the blending of genres and other approaches, to suggest a reading of the object that is both complex and poetic. Under the auspices of the Politique d’intégration des arts à l’architecture du Québec, she has created numerous works that activate and engage material experience in interior as well as exterior spaces.

http://www.mfbriere.ca

USA, Printmaking, Sculpture

Nicole Geary is an American artist hailing from the green, swampy lands of Florida, where she earned a BFA in printmaking from the University of Florida. She graduated with an MFA in printmaking from the University of South Dakota in 2013. She exhibits in juried print and sculpture shows, international residencies, and regularly participates in printmaking conferences. She is a current resident of ArtistLab at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, funded by the Surdna Foundation, and teaches at the Southwest School of Art and St. Philips College. Nicole lives and works in San Antonio, Texas.

http://www.nicolegeary.com