Friday 7 – Sunday 9 November ALL EVENTS ARE FREE
LIGHTING UP LEICESTER WITH CREATIVE TALENT FROM ACROSS THE UK www.ukyoungartists.co.uk
About the UK Young Artists Leicester Festival 2014
Three days of exhibitions, performances, workshops and masterclasses
Welcome to the UK Young Artists Leicester Festival 2014, our third event in the Midlands, showcasing the best of the country’s creative talent. The Leicester Festival’s rich and varied programme will again highlight the extraordinary diversity and quality of the creative arts in the UK today. The programme, the expanded workshop offer and additional creative networking opportunities will build on the success of our previous events in Derby and Nottingham. A recent report stated that the creative industries contribute significantly to the UK economy, with almost a third of those involved being self-employed with the need for continuing support. UK Young Artists recognises the need to encourage and foster this expanding part of the economy by providing training, performance opportunities and exhibitions across art forms and practices. Our Leicester Festival gives you the opportunity to encounter a select group of these talented practitioners and be able to say, as they gain national and international prominence, that you saw them first in Leicester! Congratulations and thank you to all those selected. I hope the festival fosters collaboration, debate and celebration of the creative arts and its diverse activities and practitioners. Thank you also to our selection panel, De Montfort University and the other partners and venues across the city who have helped to make the festival possible. Enjoy the festival!
Terry Shave, Chair of UK Young Artists www.ukyoungartists.co.uk
UK Young Artists Ambassadors —
Anna Williams Anna is an award-winning dancer and choreographer based in the UK. She’s worked as a performer and maker in dance, theatre, opera and live art for over twenty years. She was a dancer and soloist with the Russell Maliphant Dance Company and has danced with Random Dance Company, Aletta Collins, Carol Brown Dances, New Art Club and Nik Haffner. She’s currently the rehearsal director for Vincent Dance Theatre and has just been made an Associate Artist at Dance East starting April 2015.
Mandy Barker Mandy’s artistic direction has evolved from graphic design to contemporary photography. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including The Photographer’s Gallery, The Mall and Cork Street Galleries in London, The Science & Technology Park, Hong Kong, and The Anchorage Museum, Alaska.
Marcus Coates Through performance and film Marcus Coates takes his audiences on a dark and humorous journey in an attempt to explore the full potential of imagination, while simultaneously questioning the artist’s role within society. Marcus has an extensive knowledge and understanding of British birds and mammals and continually draws parallels to examine how we perceive human-ness through imagined non-human realities. These ornithological observations have led him to develop a unique method of interpreting the natural world and its evolving relationship with society.
Tom Roden - New Art Club Tom formed New Art Club with Pete Shenton in 2001. Roden and Shenton are co-artistic directors and choreograph their own work, whilst often integrating other performers and performing collaboratively with other groups. Their influences include Mark Whitelaw, Graeme Miller, DV8, Merce Cunningham and Reeves and Mortimer. They have toured across the UK, including performances at the Dundee Repertory Theatre, the Soho Theatre, London and the Liverpool Playhouse, and have also taken their work to Australia, China, the United States and Europe.
Friday 7 November Time
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9am - 6.30pm 9am - 6.30pm 9am - 6.30pm 9am - 6.30pm 9.15am - 6pm 9.15am - 6pm 10am - 4pm 10am – 5pm 10am - 6.30pm 10am - 6.30pm 10am - 6.30pm 10.30am - 12.30pm 10.30am - 12.30pm 2pm - 4pm 2pm - 5pm 5pm - 6.10pm 5.30pm - 6pm 6.30pm - 7.15pm 8pm - 9pm 9.30pm - 10pm
Visual Art Visual Art Visual Art Moving Image Visual Art Moving Image Workshop Applied Arts Visual Art Moving Image Moving Image Talk Masterclass Masterclass Moving Image Performance Performance Music Performance Performance
Cove Spilled Screen Toposcope The Individual’s Pursuit Vacant Lot bioFlaneur PrintLab Silver, Wax and Ceramic works Brick Cloud Three works Stay tuned… Meet the Programmers Exploring the Swarm: Practical Masterclass International Producing and Touring Masterclass Mother, I am Going Impulse Collective - The Canterbury Tales Joe Snape - Lärmlicht #5 Gurdain Singh Rayatt - Flashy Fingers Needless Alley - In Embryo Joe Snape - Lärmlicht #5
Silver Arcade ground floor Silver Arcade first floor Silver Arcade third floor Silver Arcade third floor Embrace Arts Embrace Arts LCB Depot Café New Walk Museum & Art Gallery Two Queens Two Queens Two Queens Embrace Arts Studio 1 Embrace Arts Studio 3 Embrace Arts Studio 1 PACE Building (DMU) Studio 2 Embrace Arts – Main Hall PACE Building (DMU) Studio 1 Embrace Arts Main Hall The Y Theatre PACE Building (DMU) Studio 1
Saturday 8 November Time
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9am - 6.30pm 9am - 6.30pm 9am - 6.30pm 9am - 6.30pm 10am - 12.30pm 10am - 1pm 10am - 4pm 10am – 5pm 10am - 6pm 10am - 6pm 10am - 6.30pm 10am - 6.30pm 10.30am - 11.30am 11.30am - 12.10pm 12pm - 6.30pm 1pm - 1.30pm 2pm - 3pm 2pm - 4pm 2pm - 4pm 2pm - 5pm 3pm - 3.45pm 4pm - 5pm 5.30pm - 6.30pm 8pm - 9.10pm 10pm - 11pm
Visual Art Visual Art Visual Art Moving Image Moving Image Masterclass Workshop Applied Arts Visual Art Moving Image Visual Art Moving Image Talk Performance Moving Image Literature Talk Masterclass Masterclass Moving Image Literature Music Performance Performance Music
Cove Spilled Screen Toposcope The Individual’s Pursuit Mother, I am Going Being Present: Live Art Masterclass PrintLab Silver, Wax and Ceramic works Vacant Lot bioFlaneur Brick Cloud Stay tuned… Words from the Street: Working as an Artist in the Community Katherine Hall - Fill in the ______ Three works Jo Kelen - Animal Antics Artist Talk - Nadim Chaudry Avoiding Writer’s Block: Poetry Masterclass Expanding Choreographic Practice Masterclass Mother, I am Going Clare Sita Fisher - Write Where You Are The Hermes Experiment - Psychological tales Dance Triple Bill Madeline Shann - Little Terrors Thomasthinks – Plynth
Silver Arcade ground floor Silver Arcade first floor Silver Arcade third floor Silver Arcade third floor PACE Building (DMU) Studio 2 PACE Building (DMU) Studio 3 LCB Depot Café New Walk Museum & Art Gallery Embrace Arts Embrace Arts Two Queens Two Queens Two Queens New Walk Gallery Two Queens New Walk Café The Exchange PACE Building (DMU) Studio 4 PACE Building (DMU) Studio 3 PACE Building (DMU) Studio 2 New Walk Café New Walk Museum & Art Gallery PACE Building (DMU) Studio 1 Upstairs at The Western The Lansdowne
Sunday 9 November Time
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10am - 6.30pm 10am - 6.30pm 10am - 6.30pm 10.30am - 12:30pm 10.30am - 4pm 10.30am - 4pm 10.30am - 4pm 10.30am - 4pm 10am - 6pm 10am - 6pm 11am - 11.45am 11am – 5pm 12pm - 3pm 12.15pm - 1pm 1pm - 1.30pm 1pm - 1.45pm 2pm - 3pm
Visual Art Moving Image Moving Image Talk Visual Art Visual Art Visual Art Moving Image Visual Art Moving Image Performance Applied Arts Moving Image Music Literature Literature Music
Brick Cloud Three works Stay tuned… Artist-Led Spaces and Accessing Opportunities Cove Spilled Screen Toposcope The Individual’s Pursuit Vacant Lot bioFlaneur Katherine Hall - Fill in the ______ Silver, Wax and Ceramic works Mother, I am Going Gurdain Singh Rayatt - Flashy Fingers Jo Kelen - Animal Antics Clare Sita Fisher - Write Where You Are The Hermes Experiment - Psychological tales
Two Queens Two Queens Two Queens Embrace Arts Studio 1 Silver Arcade ground floor Silver Arcade first floor Silver Arcade third floor Silver Arcade third floor Embrace Arts Embrace Arts PACE Building (DMU) Studio 4 New Walk Museum & Art Gallery PACE Building (DMU) Studio 2 New Walk Museum & Art Gallery Upstairs At The Western New Walk Cafe Upstairs at The Western
Programme Applied Arts
Eluned Glyn Ceramics Minimus Maximus New Walk Museum & Art Gallery Slip-casted earthenware ceramics created by re-constructing existing vessels from charity shops. The pieces are deconstructed and re-built into a solid form. The piece is used as a master copy which is then moulded in pottery plaster, cast in slip and fired up to five times.
Jodie Hatcher A series of woven sculptural vessels New Walk Museum & Art Gallery Created through experimenting with different aspects of the process; the weave, form, scale and material. Each piece is created using thin strips of sheet metal woven together in geometric patterns, to create sheet material which is then shaped around a range of metal stakes and wooden formers, to create the desired form.
Yasmin Falahat Night Walking
Moving Image
Aleks Cicha bioFlaneur Embrace Arts Aleks’ films superimpose recent biotechnological development and research onto the culture of consumerism. They challenge, provoke and speculate on the effects of specific scientific research on everyday life, social interaction and social behaviour.
Sandra Fruebing
The Individual’s Pursuit Silver Arcade The creation of a narrative based on a character whose quest is to inhabit an in-between space as an exploration of what is beyond the obvious. The story of the individual’s pursuit challenges common sense and discusses the idea of the in-between space and borders.
Three Works Caitlin Webb-Ellis Mother, I am Going 2pm - 5pm Friday 10am - 12.30pm & 2pm - 5pm Saturday 12pm - 3pm Sunday PACE Building (DMU) Artist-filmmaker working across video, installation, writing and performance. Recent work investigates memory and distance, the viewer’s position and the problem of representation.
Maria Abbott Stay Tuned…
Two Queens Three moving image works: a stop-motion animation, an archival film and a film of a hybrid between performance, installation and kinetic sculpture. Artists: Annlin Chao, Chun-yu Liu, Karolina Bielskyte
Literature
Clare Sita Fisher Write Where You Are
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
Two Queens
3pm Saturday 1pm Sunday New Walk Museum & Gallery
A collection of hand-sculpted 3D wax pieces spray-painted and scratched into, combined with areas of stitched thin monofilament.
Fake commercials that advertise bizarre beauty products, custom made by the artist, that promise to enhance a woman’s life.
Clare is our UK Young Artists Festival Writer in Residence. She’ll be writing and performing new work inspired by other artists’ work at the festival.
Jo Kelen Animal Antics 1pm Saturday, New Walk Museum & Art Gallery 1pm Sunday, Upstairs at The Western A compilation of some of Jo’s favourite poems and some of her most recent in an entertaining and light-hearted show.
The Hermes Experiment Psychological tales 4pm Saturday, New Walk Museum & Art Gallery 2pm Sunday, Upstairs at The Western An exploration of psychological states through the ages using contemporary music from a quartet who perform diverse experimental compositions and arrangements while venturing into live free improvisation.
Music
Dance Triple Bill 5.30pm Saturday, PACE Building (DMU) A programme of three works, one blending live response movement with digital documentary footage, a new production loosely based on a true story involving the politics of a country in a time of corruption, death feuds and gangs, and a piece that scratches the surface of poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Artists: SoulUrge5, What Is Written, Rachel Burn.
thomasthinks Plynth 10pm Saturday, The Lansdowne
Gurdain Singh Rayatt Flashy Fingers 6.30pm Friday, Embrace Arts 12.15pm Sunday, New Walk Museum & Art Gallery Professional tabla player with a performance that is authentic to the art form yet captivating for rhythm lovers and all audiences featuring rhythmic complexities, dramatic compositions, punchy grooves and harmonic delivery. Tabla reimagined!
An audio-visual performance featuring live instrumentation and spontaneously generated visuals. Each of the participants are artists within their own right and will be coming together to create something extraordinary, creating an uplifting ambience of spontaneity, delicate sonics and poetic expression, blurring the boundaries between sonic and visual arts. Artists: David Hepple Guitar, Glen Hicks - Bass, Tom Harris - Beats, Keys, Voice and Will Pettipher - Visuals and Saxophone.
Madeline Shann Little Terrors
8pm Saturday, Upstairs at The Western A dance theatre lecture, Little Terrors uses movement, storytelling, experimental sound design and any other means necessary to explain why life is terrifying.
Performance
Katherine Hall Joe Snape Lärmlicht #5 5.30pm & 9.30pm Friday PACE Building (DMU) Joe uses odd instruments, found objects and electricity to make unusual musical performances.
Fill in the ______
Needless Alley In Embryo
8pm Friday, The Y Theatre A new and multidisciplinary performance integrating the talents of seven artists.
11.30am Saturday, New Walk Museum & Art Gallery 11am Sunday, PACE Building (DMU) A troubling yet ordinary lecture of nonsense, playing on the oddities of managing time and the fragility of relationships.
Impulse Collective The Canterbury Tales
5pm Friday, Embrace Arts Following their smash hit Exposed at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival, this young East Midlands based company present their anarchic new take on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
Visual Arts
Toposcope Brick Cloud
Silver Arcade
Two Queens
Work exploring movement within and around spaces both geographical and psychological, examining the human desire for movement, exploration and the building of tools to navigate with and inhabit. Artists: Alexander Wallis, David Langham, Gina Soden, Oliver Quinn, Sandra Fruebing, Susannah Stark
Works from artists exploring pattern, surface and man-made forms, working in a space between where painting ends and sculpture begins. Artists: Beth Shapeero, Daniel Cave, Jo Willoughby, Leonie Brandner, Sam Laughlin, Se Rin Park, Tess Williams
Vacant Lot Embrace Arts
Alexander Duncan Cove
Silver Arcade Over 10,000 pieces of collected polyurethane and polystyrene foam make up this work that explores the idea of the unknown in life and art.
Spilled Screen Silver Arcade Works from three painters working with methods of deconstruction, abstraction and fragmentation. Artists: Alberto Condotta, Daniel Bourke, Loz Atkinson
Works from artists exploring the relationship between society and the individual, examining consumerism, technologically augmented and heightened hyper-realities, and the production of objects both mass produced and obsessively crafted. Artists: Anna White, Beth Kane, Joshua Green, Olivier Marc Thomas Leger, Sam Laughlin
Full programme details and ticket links for performances can be found at www.ukyoungartists.co.uk
Venue Listings
De Montfort University - PACE Building
The Exchange
The Performance Arts Centre of Excellence (PACE) is part of the School of Arts at De Montfort University, a school that encompasses performance arts, visual arts and arts management courses, offering undergraduate and postgraduate study that encourages a cutting-edge approach to contemporary practice together with strong academic critical enquiry and analysis.
At the centre of Leicester’s Cultural Quarter since 2011. Host to comedy, bands, themed nights, weddings, birthdays, launch events, christenings and book clubs. Open all hours from breakfast (8.30am weekdays), through lunch, to early evening drinks then pre theatre, pre club, party venue (1am on the weekend).
Richmond Street, Leicester, LE2 7BQ www.dmu.ac.uk
50 Rutland Street, Cultural Quarter, Leicester LE1 1RD 0116 251 3434 / www.exchangeleicester.com
The Landsdowne Embrace Arts To be embraced and respected locally, regionally and nationally as an arts centre, welcoming audiences and artists to share in pioneering visual and performing arts inclusively. Richard Attenborough centre Lancaster Road, Leicester, LE1 7HA 0116 252 2455 / www.embracearts.co.uk
LCB Depot A creative hub at the heart of Leicester’s Cultural Quarter providing a wide range of services to the creative industries in Leicester to help them flourish. 31 Rutland St, Leicester, LE1 1RE 0116 261 6800 / www.lcbdepot.co.uk
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery Leicester’s original museum has wide ranging collections and displays spanning the natural and cultural world. 53 New Walk, Leicester, LE1 7EA 0116 225 4900 / www.leicester.gov.uk/museums
Silver Arcade One of only two arcades in the UK that are four storeys high this 19th century building is in the heart of Leicester’s city centre. Fully refurbished and re-opened to the public in 2013 it has won four conservation and development awards for the retaining of the arcade’s many original features whilst being fully modernised; bringing the building into the 21st century. Silver Arcade, Silver Street, Leicester, LE1 5FA 0116 253 8159 / www.thesilverarcade.com
Visit The Lansdowne on London Road for an experience a little out of the ordinary. Serving up premium cocktails, beers and delicious food day and night in a relaxed and comfortable environment. 123 London Road, Leicester, LE2 0QT 0116 285 4131 / www.orangetree.co.uk/thelansdowne
The Y Theatre Built in 1900, The Y is the oldest surviving theatre in Leicester. A bustling live performance venue with an eclectic programme including music, comedy, theatre, new work and spoken word. 7 East Street, Leicester, LE1 6EY 0116 255 7066 / www.ytheatre.co.uk
Two Queens An artist led gallery and studio complex situated in Leicester’s Cultural Quarter. 2 Queen Street, Leicester, LE1 1QW www.2queens.com
Upstairs at The Western Leicester’s first pub theatre programming brave, inspiring and engaging performances in Leicester’s West End. The Western Pub 70 Western Road, Leicester, LE3 0GA www.upstairsatthewestern.com
Map
Key De Montfort University 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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De Montfort University PACE Building Embrace Arts LCB Depot New Walk Museum & Art Gallery Silver Arcade
Cultural Quarter 6. The Exchange 7. The Landsdowne 8. The Y Theatre 9. Two Queens 10. Upstairs at The Western
Train Station
Workshop Programme
As part of the festival programme, UK Young Artists has teamed up with IdeasTap to curate a special programme of events including practical workshops, performances and masterclasses. All events are free and bookable through the IdeasTap site: www.ideastap.com/spa Meet the Programmers
Fri 7 Nov, 10.30am - 12.30pm, Embrace Arts, Studio 1 With Fergus Evans (freelance producer), Natalie Ibu (In Good Company) and Francesca Waite (The Lowry). An informal panel discussion looking at development programmes available to artists and the best ways to access them. The session will cover the best ways to network and present yourself and your work as well as providing an opportunity for you to ask the panel of programmers and producers about their experiences and ask for advice.
Exploring the Swarm
Practical Masterclass with Anna Collette Hunt Fri 7 Nov, 10.30am - 12.30pm, Embrace Arts, Studio 3 Join Anna Collette Hunt for an introduction to hand modelling and basic clay joining skills. Participants will be given the opportunity to create a mini swarm using Anna’s moulds and a bit of imagination.
International Producing and Touring
Masterclass with Joe Bone Fri 7 Nov, 2pm - 4pm, Embrace Arts, Studio 1 Joe Bone will discuss how to make international theatre touring a viable means and cover ways in which artists may want to make their production internationally attractive.
Being Present Live Art Masterclass
with Deux Oiseaux (Natalie Raven and Joanna Partridge) Sat 8 Nov 10am - 1pm, PACE Building (DMU), Studio 3 An intensive, body-based workshop delivered by live art performance company Deux Oiseaux based on their mutual, body based live art practice. The workshop will require you to bring with you a level of integrity; a commitment to yourself, to others, and especially to your practice. It’s open to performers from all disciplines, as the exercises and techniques can be applied to all performing arts practices which utilise the body.
Artist Talk – Nadim Chaudry
Sat 8 Nov, 2pm - 3pm, The Exchange Nadim will talk about his career as a practising visual artist. He’ll cover his background and education, finding the right studio space and how he now works within this space. Nadim will also talk about securing his first solo shows and his recent commissions. Then it’s over to the audience for a short Q&A.
Avoiding Writer’s Block
Poetry Masterclass with Deborah Stevenson Sat 8 Nov, 2pm - 4pm, PACE Building (DMU), Studio 4 Write and share 20 poems whilst nurturing the right questions to help you and your poetry get to where it needs to go. Explore the importance of verbs, nouns, writing, sharing and letting loose your inhibitions when it comes to getting your writing out there and using your writing as a means of learning about yourself.
Expanding Choreographic Practice
Masterclass with Antje Hildebrandt Sat 8 Nov, 2pm - 4pm, PACE Building (DMU), Studio 3 This workshop will explore a variety of ways through which to approach choreography. It will look at creative strategies, processes, tools and methods for making performance as well as improvisation, scoring, games and task based structures for creating choreographic work.
Artist-led Spaces & Accessing Opportunities Sun 9 Nov, 10.30am - 12.30pm, Embrace Arts, Studio 1
With Michelle Bowen (Primary), Beth Shapeero (founding member of Backlit) and Dan Kelly (Two Queens) This panel discussion will cover how some of the artist led spaces in the East Midlands were set-up and how they currently run. We will also cover opportunities available through these spaces and how best to access them. This will be followed by a Q&A with the panel.
As part of the festival programme, UK Young Artists is offering an outreach programme of activity in conjunction with Writing East Midlands, Leicester Print Workshop and Pedestrian. All events are free! printlab with Leicester Print Workshop Fri 7 & Sat 8 Nov, 10am - 4pm (sign up for a 90 minute slot) at LCB Depot
Aimed at creative practitioners, the printlab gives you the opportunity to learn about printmaking, test and explore the possibilities of the medium in relation to your art practice and contribute to our collaborative printed zine whether you are a practicing artist or not. The zine will evolve throughout UK Young Artists Leicester Festival.
Leicester Print Workshop Leicester Print Workshop promotes, sustains and advances fine art printmaking as a contemporary visual art form; as a craft; as a focus for exhibitions and commissions; in schools, with community groups, to artists and to the general public. The workshop makes a creative impression and a meaningful contribution to visual arts in the Midlands. Leicester Print Workshop was first established in 1986 and became a registered charity in 1993. It is an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation (NPO). — www.leicesterprintworkshop.com
Words from the Street
Working as an Artist in the Community Sat 8 Nov, 10.30am - 11.30am at Two Queens Join local writer Mahsuda Snaith as she talks about her success as a published young artist and her experience working as a Writer in Residence at Kennedy House Homeless Shelter. How can working as an artist in the community benefit your work? How can a writer encourage new artists who don’t ordinarily have a voice? In this lively talk Mahsuda will discuss the triumphs and pitfalls of working as an artist in the community and will read from her new novel inspired by the homeless community. This will be followed by a screening of What You Don’t See When You See Me, a short film with readings of residents’ work. The floor will then be open for a Q&A with lead writer Mahsuda Snaith, UK Young Artist and shadow writer Tom Harris and filmmaker Guy Jenkins. This project is part of the Writing East Midlands’ Write Here Residency Programme, presented in partnership with UK Young Artists and Pedestrian.
Writing East Midlands Writing East Midlands is the writer development agency for the region. Working in partnership with a broad range of cultural organisations including schools, universities, arts venues, museums, libraries, producers and local authorities to encourage relationships between writers and their communities. — www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk
Pedestrian Pedestrian provides education and training to young people at risk and vulnerable adults; individuals whom are often socially excluded and from disadvantaged backgrounds. — www.pedestrian.info
Artists Applied Arts Eluned Glyn Ceramics
Intrigued by the marriage of form and function, and the distortion of the domestic object; familiar yet foreign in form, Eluned Glyn Ceramics takes existing vessels from charity shops and re-constructs their forms. www.elunedglyn.com
Jodie Hatcher
A designer-maker inspired by architecture and forms found in nature Jodie specialises in woven metalwork. She explores how far she can push the material to create her desired form. www.jodiehatcher.co.uk
Caitlin Webb-Ellis
An artist-filmmaker working across video, installation, writing and performance. Caitlin’s recent work investigates memory and distance, the position of the viewer and the problem of representation. www.webb-ellis.org
Chun-yu Liu
Born in Taiwan and currently studying for her MFA at Wimbledon College of Art, Chun-yu trained as an abstract painter before using moving image as her medium. Her work explores identity, migration, narrative, and fantasy.
Karolina Bielskyte
Yasmin specialises in mixed media, creating textural, sculptural pieces using a range of materials. She has recently graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design, studying for a BA in Textile Design. www.yasminfalahat.com
An interdisciplinary artist experienced in design for theatre, performance, exhibition and film. Bewitched by space, its law and mystery, Karolina’s interested in creating magic spatial environments that allow and evoke particular experiences for the audience, performers and for herself. karbielskyte.wix.com/portfolio
Literature
Maria Abbott
Yasmin Falahat
Clare Sita Fisher
Clare’s recent work includes an interactive story-telling installation for Leeds Light Night 2014, for which she was selected as a SHINE Emerging Artist. Her short fiction has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies and in 2013 she won the Spread the Word Writing Prize and the Cinnamon Press Writing Prize for her short fiction. www.claresitafisher.com
Jo Kelen
Jo has been writing poetry for as long as she can remember and has recently started performing. She’s performed in venues across Nottingham and this summer at the Strawberry Fields Festival in Leicestershire as a member of the Mouthy Poets collective.
Moving Image Annlin Chao
Annlin’s work includes animation, illustration and installation. She’s passionate about using new materials, experimental techniques and the magic of stop motion. Graduated from Royal College of Art, London, in 2014. www.annlinchao.com
Aleks Cicha
Aleks explores architecture through film, photography and product design. Her design work begins with scientific fact and, informed by everyday social observation, is elaborated in the author’s imagination. www.aleksandracicha.com
Maria has screened her video art at film festivals including Beacons Festival in Skipton, Whitley Bay Film Festival, Northern Stage Newcastle Arts and Music Festival in Newcastle and CAAPO Public Art Project ‘Formal Interference’ in Florence, Italy. maria-abbott-art.weebly.com
Sandra Fruebing
Sandra’s work is concerned with the establishment of the self within today’s society. Her work involves research within the fields of film, literature and the ordinary social interaction. www.sandra-fruebing.de
Music Gurdain Singh Rayatt
Professional tabla player, and disciple of maestro Pandit Shankar Ghosh, his father and his grandfather, Gurdain frequently performs tabla solos and has accompanied world-class musicians including Purbayan Chatterjee, Roopa Panesar and Soumik Datta. He’s performed at festivals including WOMAD (UK) and Saptak (India). www.gurdain.com
The Hermes Experiment
Passionate about contemporary and experimental music and dedicated to creating art that is innovative and unique. The quartet performs diverse experimental compositions and arrangements and ventures into live free improvisation. www.thehermesexperiment.com
thomasthinks
Tom collaborated with Czech composer Tomas Zeman on the jazz / hip-hop album Black Sheep. He founded Project S2di0; a creative project space and recording studio where he runs community projects and collaborates and records with Nottingham based artists and performers. www.thomasthinks.co.uk
Performance Impulse Collective
An emerging professional theatre company challenging the modern boundaries of theatre to create new and exciting work. The collective uses verbatim, comedy, autobiography and projection, in experimental ways. www.impulsecollective.co.uk
Joe Snape
Using odd instruments, found objects and electricity to make unusual musical performances Joe has presented his work at numerous festivals and venues, including Melkweg (Amsterdam), ACUD Theater (Berlin), Wonder Site (Tokyo), and The Kitchen (New York City). joesna.pe
Katherine Hall
Katherine’s choreographic work aims to capture unsustainable and unfinished moments of human experience and to consider the on-going nature of life’s oddities, know-hows and intimacies through performance. www.katherine-hall.com
Madeline Shann
A theatre maker, choreographer and performer Madeline makes her own live work and film, mixing theatre, music, live art with dance styles including contemporary, breakdance and European folk. www.madelineshann.co.uk
Needless Alley
The collective explores artistic bonds on stage and draws on influences from both Modernist and post-dramatic performance to create theatrical happenings through juxtapositions of, and collisions between, artistic practices. www.needlessalley.co.uk
What Is Written
Comprised of individuals from different training and style backgrounds yet connected by the journey of exploring the liberation of oneself through the medium of dance, pushing their extremities to create new movement vocabulary and innovative dance pieces.
Rachel Burn
Rachel makes dances to connect people and her work is made from the stuff that makes up life, mundane or profound. Preferring to work with groups, and habitually with women, she loves shape, pattern and empathy. www.rachelburn.com
SoulUrge5
Creating contemporary dance performance that focuses on installation work to challenge and engage audience perceptions. Their work explores contact, improvisation and ideas emanating from process versus performance.
Visual Arts Alberto Condotta
A fine art graduate, Alberto is currently working on practice-led PhD research on pattern superimposition. His work has been shown in the UK, North America and continental Europe. www.albertocondotta.com
Alexander Duncan
Currently studying for an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art and working primarily with sculpture, photography, sought objects, video and drawing. highertide.blogspot.co.uk
Daniel Bourke
Daniel explores how digital technologies have become intertwined with daily life. His paintings are a digital mash-up of photographs, code and gestural mark-making which he takes into oil paint. His work draws inspiration from glitch art, surrealism to abstract expressionism and the Dutch golden age. www.danielbourke.com
Daniel Cave
Observation, personal rumination and the painting medium are essential elements within Daniel’s work. He has exhibited paintings and drawings in Nottingham and London. He’s currently working on a publication of selected drawings. www.danielcave.co.uk
David Langham
David’s practice is concerned with the relationship between humanity and its surroundings. Whilst encountering obvious physical environments, he aims to consider the social and cultural parameters which can also influence a person’s experience with a place or situation. www.david-langham.co.uk
Gina Soden
Alexander’s practice focuses on disrupting the social conventions of a traditional gallery by exploring the communication between spectator and sculpture through tactility and movement. www.awwallis.co.uk
At the heart of Gina’s photography is a preoccupation with abandoned structures and locations. Travelling throughout Europe, she explores the boundaries of beauty, decay, nostalgia and neglect. Every image is a product of a journey, referring to the physical demands of gaining entry and to the passing of time. www.ginasoden.co.uk
Anna White
Jo Willoughby
Alexander Wallis
Photographer with a passion for documenting the ‘everyday’, Anna is drawn to subjects that are personal to her and her community. Her work has been exhibited at Tate Britain and has featured in The Telegraph and The Big Issue. www.annawhite.net
Beth Kane
Concentrating on the lives people lead, Bethany aims to reveal their narrative through photography by highlighting details within a particular environment. She has previously exhibited in Derby, Cologne, London and Birmingham. www.bethanykane.co.uk
Beth Shapeero
Beth works with the physical aspects of painting and qualities of abstraction. She co-founded Nottingham’s Backlit Gallery and was awarded the ARHC Scholarship for the MLitt programme at The Glasgow School of Art. www.bethshapeero.com
A mixed-media artist predominantly working with found and made objects, painting and drawing. Jo has a playful and experimental approach to materials often combining 2D and 3D works in small installations and assemblages. jowilloughby.tumblr.com
Joshua Green
Joshua works predominantly in oil paints, combining traditional values with contemporary ideas. His main interests lie within the importance of the everyday, place and portraiture. Joshuagreen.brushd.com
Leonie Brandner
Leonie’s practice revolves around questions of identity, singularity and multiplicity, solitude, fluidity, continuity and disruption, connection, separation and the on-going change through interaction. bleonie.wordpress.com
Loz Atkinson
Loz’s concept driven work has been depicted in paint, sculpture and digital media. She plays with perceptions of what is seen and not seen, using bold shape, line, colour and symbolism. www.lozatkinson.co.uk
Oliver Quinn
Oliver explores our relationship to immaterial space and our time spent participating within it using flat environments and intangible frameworks that allow the viewer to find lines of flight for the eye to wander through propositional spaces.
Olivier Marc Thomas Leger
Olivier creates drawings of fantastic creatures and animals fabricated into worlds with thriving ecosystems and habitats. His work holds an overwhelming organic feel that pervades a feeling of living harmony. He was awarded the Attenborough Prize in 2014. www.olivierleger.co.uk
Sam Laughlin
Sam’s practice deals primarily with architecture, using it to engage with wider ideas often latently expressed in the structures we build. His work has been exhibited in Europe and North America and published internationally. www.samlaughlin.co.uk
Se Rin Park
Se Rin presents big landscapes using geometric ideas. The rhythm of painting is established through articulating echoing planes of colours. The use of line and colour moving between images connects to the outside world and pure abstraction. www.parkserin.com
Susannah Stark
Susannah’s work is an on-going investigation into printmaking as a mode of knowledge production, formed by the historical and conceptual legacies of the printmaking process; dependency on procedure and repetition, ties to literature and to craft and use as a tool for dissemination, both politically and commercially. www.susannahstark.com
Tess Williams
Large-scale abstract painter working within the boundaries of traditional/deconstructed painting and installation. Picking apart the traditional stretcher/canvas based method of painting creating work that engages with the space it’s in. www.tessrachelwilliams.com
Joe Snape image: Ben Cherry
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