Residents / Interdisciplinary Residency November 2016

USA, Print Media/Sculpture – Solo Printmaking Place during Interdisciplinary Residency

Francine Kay Affourtit (1975) is a Philadelphia based artist, educator and arts organiser. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA from Tyler School of Art as a Temple University Fellow. Affourtit has exhibited her work internationally, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the International Print Center of New York, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, and Werkstadt in Berlin. Francine has attended several residencies globally, including The Skopelos Foundation for the Arts in Greece, The Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College, and Kala Art Institute in Berkeley.

http://www.francinekaffourtit.com

UK, Sculptural Installation

Garth Gratrix is an artist and curator based in Blackpool where he is the Director of Abingdon Studios. Since 2008 he has been involved in commissioning, curating and editing exhibition, engagement and publishing projects in the north of England. His work is concerned with relationships, current and new found, real or staged. He creates sculptural installations and experiments with materials, environments and spaces as a means to propose narratives of implied dialogue; scenarios or conundrums which indicate silent debate or collaboration.

https://garthgratrix.com/

UK, Fine art: Film, Performance, Installation

Jeremy Hutchison is a British artist based in London. Having studied linguistics and written advertising for Coca-Cola, he received a distinction from the Slade School of Art. Hutchinson has recently returned to the UK following fellowships at SOMA, Mexico City and the Whitney Museum, New York. He has presented solo projects at Space (London), Division of Labour (Worcester), Bikini Wax (Mexico City), Rurart (Poitiers), Radar (Loughborough), De Appel (Basel), Paradise Row (London), and Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (Manchester). Hutchinson is currently artist-in-residence at [space] in London and will participated in the 37th EVA Biennale, Ireland in 2016.

http://www.jeremyhutchison.com

Italy, Video, Installation

Pamela Breda lives and Works in Venice. In 2012 she received her MA in Visual Arts from IUAV University, Italy. Her work has been exhibited in international venues in Venice, London, Santander, Salzburg, Trondheim, Moscow, and in institutions such as Karlsruhe Kunsthalle, Fondation Francois Schneider, La Casa Encendida, Fondation Botin, Fondation Bevilacqua La Masa and Venice Architecture Biennal, Italian Pavillion. Her main area of research is focused on cultural visual tropes and traditions, on the contingency of the artistic process and on its multiple outcomes. She analyses western imaginaries connected with culturally and socially-engaged contexts of production and reception.

http://cargocollective.com/Pamela-Breda

UK, Performance

Tempo Rubato’s recent work includes Partner Dances For One, a solo performance for stages (work in progress showings Camden People’s Theatre, Calm Down Dear Festival 2015 and Battersea Arts Centre, Scratch October 2015), Floorplan//Here Or Now, an exhibition of performance at Rich Mix, London in September 2015; and the Imaginary Festivals Project, a collaborative writing project with the Forest Fringe 2014. Tempo Rubato run a monthly digital and performance writing group, research on which they will present this April, at the International Conference on Artistic Research in The Hague.

https://temporubatoresearch.wordpress.com