Outside In Magazine Issue 2 - Autumn 2021
Welcome
“Inclusion and diversity are words often heard currently, their meaning and purpose at risk of being lost through familiarity. Outside In’s underlying premise and purpose is built on respecting the individual and avoiding labels of any kind, its work targeted at those who need it, artists facing significant barriers to the art world..” - Marc Steene, Outside In founder and director Front cover image: Families, picking noses by Colin Cameron 02 |
The close of the year is often a time for reflection, but at Outside In – as always – the team is busy striving forward. As well as updating you on all the latest news and opportunities, this issue of the new magazine focuses on exhibitions. It takes a closer look at the shows, both virtual and physical, which are highlighting work by Outside In artists this autumn from Strange Relations in Brighton to this year’s Royal Academy Summer Show. Plus there is a chance to hear from some of the artist curators ahead of Kindred Spirits opening in Nottinghamshire this November which will bring together Outside In’s Charles with Outside In artist collection and the Jerwood Goldlink100 at RA Summer Show Collection. There’s an
interview with renowned sculptor and long-term supporter of the charity Laura Ford who talks about the exhibitions which have impacted her career and have been her creative guides, both ideal for sparking inspiration. I really enjoyed the first magazine, and hope you all did too. It was so good to see many of you taking up the invitation to get in touch and you can find the same postcard feature at the back of this edition. So on behalf of the team please let me encourage you to share your feedback and share the news of Outside In with others too! - Charles Rolls, Outside In chairman | 03
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Key Dates
Visibility Project
Artist Advice
Artist Advisory Group
Ambassador Interview
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Laura Ford Interview
Royal Academy Showcase
Artists’ View Exhibitions
Artist News
Bursary
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Patient Artwork Project
The Outside In Collection
Jo Baring Virtual Gallery
Strange Relations
Kindred Spirits
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Get Creative Guides
Contacts
Postcard Fundraiser
Outreach
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Key Dates Coming Up
New regional hub! Outside In is excited to announce it will soon be opening a new regional hub in partnership with Venture Arts and The Whitworth in Manchester. This hub will involve recruiting a brand new role that will develop opportunities for artists who face significant barriers to the art world. Amanda Sutton, director of VentureArts said: “We are so excited to be working with Outside In and the Whitworth on this project to reach artists and support them to develop their careers at a time when it is ever more crucial to connect with people who would otherwise remain hidden, isolated and unrecognised. We are very much looking forward to cementing this brilliant partnership to build our joint work too.” A huge thanks to the National Lottery UK and Arts Council England who have awarded a project grant of £42k for our North West Artists Development Plan. More information will be released soon so please watch this space! 06 |
HaYoung Kim (b. 1983) Internal Sequence III, 2010, Jerwood Collection
On now - Layers of Creativity, Outside In virtual exhibition, 16 September to 13 January - RA Summer Show, 23 September to 2 January - Strange Relations at Fabrica Gallery, Brighton
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8 - Strange Relations: Artist workshop 11 - Introducing Collections online talk 16 - Artist Support Day in Birmingham and online 18 - Midlands Share Art in conjunction with Bedlam Festival 20 - Kindred Spirits opens at The Harley Galler 24 - Layers of Creativity Share Art event 26 - Artist Support Day online 26 - Artist Support Day in St Helens, Merseyside 26 - Online panel event for Kindred Spirits exhibition 29 - Deadline for the Exploring Collections course with Artspace
Coming Soon Applications will also open this autumn for two Step Up courses. Exploring Collections with the Outside In collection will run in January 2022 and a Leading Workshops course in March 2022 – both will be based in Coventry. For more details please contact Kate Davey on Kate.Davey@Outsidein.org.uk or 07903 028391.
Contacts: For Midlands events please contact José, for other Share Arts and Support Days please contact Hannah and for exhibition events please contact Cornelia and Charlotte, details on page 46.
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Artist Development Midlands Outside In’s ‘Visibility’ BlackArtProject comprised a unique series of events addressing the Black Lives Matter movement. It offered ethnically diverse artists in the Midlands the opportunity to profile their arts practice while exploring black art history and historic works by ‘heroes and sheroes’ of Black Art. Ije, Frances Yeung, Cory Barrett, Gurdip Junjuha, Kitty Kaur, Mandip Sheehra, Melissandre Varin and Rosa Francesca were the contemporary, Coventry-based artists who took part. Partners in the region included Artspace Coventry, The New Art Gallery Walsall, The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum and Iniva. Cory Barrett said it was ‘such an insightful programme’ which offered the chance to ‘connect with some incredibly talented artists showcasing their creative practices’ and discover ‘some pioneers that went before me and have already inspired the world and offered so much’. “I wish this had been available to the 08 |
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younger me who was searching for identity. I am under no illusion now that I am an artist Visibility has certainly opened my eyes.”
public to know that black artists exist, are talented and are part of British history.” To contact José please see page 47.
Over a series of Zoom café online events facilitated by curator and artist Pauline Bailey the artists gave presentations of their work while exploring connections with historic works by artists including Pearl Alcock, Sir Frank Bowling, Keith Piper, Maud Saulter and Lubaina Himid. The events also saw the artists share their views on contemporary arts practice, heritage and black art history amongst many other subjects. Legacies of the project will include a film, to be shown in libraries and on participating partners websites, and in a future exhibition. Outside In’s Hub Programme Manager José Forrest who led the project said: “This was an exciting project which enabled new connections and opened up such vital and inspiring dialogues. It was an opportunity for the wider
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Tips from Outside In Ambassadors Talking about your art: How much of my story should I include?
• It is up to you how much you include, don’t push yourself further than you’re comfortable. Also how you feel about sharing your story can be a journey, it can change over time.
Many Outside In artists make work influenced by their life experiences and struggles they have faced. Some artists feel it is important to share their experiences while others do not. Here Outside In ambassadors share their tips which are based on their experience. Please note these tips might not work for everyone, take what’s helpful for you and leave the rest. • You can make your work the focus of your talk - let the art do the talking • Think in advance what you’re willing to share and what you’d like to keep private • If you choose to, and feel it’s relevant to your artwork, you can just give a couple of sentences in your introduction to set the context of your story • You don’t have to be detailed if you don’t want to 10 |
Mobile by Katya Solyanko
Meet the Artist Advisory Group • Since joining they have made easy read documents for me.
Sarah Watson, Brighton
Can you tell us about the art work you make? • I make art of different types, drawing, painting and photography. • During lockdown drawing has been a way to cope with the situation. • My art is bold, vibrant, I like using colours, textures and patterns. • My main influence is Van Gogh, my favourite painting is Starry Starry Night. What has been the best thing about being on the Artist Advisory Group? • Accommodating for my needs during lockdown.
What is your motivation for being on the AAG? Why is it important to you? • Art is for everyone and everyone should be included. • Art should not have any barriers. What do you hope to see more of at Outside In? • More practical sessions. • Hire out places for workshops and make more accessible for people in rural areas.
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Ambassador Interview Ambassador Rana Ibrahim is based in Oxford.
Meet our ambassadors Outside In believes that the artist’s voice is the most powerful testimony to the success and impact of its work. Outside In ambassadors use their voice and their lived experience to help spread the word about the charity engaging people with its work and aims. Ambassadors receive training and support in the role and enjoy attending events and meeting new people. If you would like to talk to someone about becoming an ambassador please call 01273 381311 or email ambassadors@outsidein.org.uk
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I have been an artist with Outside In since 2018. Mainly I do collage artwork, however previously I started as a filmmaker and still do. I wanted to be an ambassador as I felt is a great way to support other artists with barriers like me especially supporting diversity, refugee, immigrant and women artists. There are lots of things such as: Helping a Palestinian artist to bring her art to the UK, sharing my art and other Iraqi women artists in Iraq to share their art and finally through outside in I manger to be part of amazing 5 talented artists and formed our group called Flow collective. Being an ambassador is a great opportunity to try and find out other hidden art skills you have not being aware of it.
Artwork by Rana Ibrahim
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Step Up Update - Patient Artwork The second Patient Artwork Projects are now underway with artists exploring and responding to fascinating collections. Exhibitions are planned between May and August 2022 for each of the projects at Mental Health Museum, Wakefield, Glenside Hospital Museum, Bristol and for Glasgow Museums. Some of the resulting artworks, and inspiration behind them, can be seen on these pages. Bel Pye (Glasgow)- This piece was inspired by Angus McPhee’s giant grass knitted clothes. I found a natural material near me (ivy from the local park) and sewed a tiny jacket.
Artwork by Bel Pye inspired by Angus McPhee
During the project I was also interested in how I could combine traditional crafts with natural materials, like artists Angus McPhee and Adam Christie. Paige Lyons (Wakefield) - Being an illustrator my interests lie in all things narrative and I was keen to learn about the lives and experiences of the people who spent time in the asylum. 14 |
Mary Francis Heaton by Paige Lyons
Step Up Update - Patient Artwork Finding personal antidotes was difficult, hints of stories here and there, mixed in with medical medical reports and admission documents – it was definitely research you could spend along time on. I was struck like most people to discover the small but significant collection by Mary Frances Heaton, who was a patient at the West Riding Asylum from 1837 to 1873.
Steve Burden (Glenside) – I’m fascinated with the Victorian patient portraits, their personal stories and the methods of treating them – fresh air, exercise, gardening, green space. Leucotomy (the surgical cutting of white nerve fibres within the brain) came later in the 1940s and was barbaric in comparison.
(Left to right) Blue collar, oil and collage on canvas, Class is the elephant in every room and Human beings live in a simplified dreamworld by Steve Burden | 15
Exhibitions Intro Outside in has a growing collection of artworks made by non-traditional artists. The collection aims to provide a legacy for Outside In as well as help build the reputation of these artists and recognise the value they bring to the art world and society in general. Over the past few months we have started the process of documenting and cataloguing the Outside In collection. This has involved contacting artists that gifted art works, some over ten years ago, and making sure we have photographs of all the works. We’ve really enjoyed finding out more about the artists in this collection and are excited to see many of the works being showcased in the ‘Layers of Creativity’ and ‘Kindred Spirits’ exhibition. Pete Jones photographing the Outside In collection 16 |
Motorbike And Man by Manuel Bonifacio
Drew Fox’s artwork being photographed
Find out more: An Introducing Collections talk on Outside In’s Collection In is planned for Thursday 11 November, 1 – 2pm on Zoom. Outside In director Marc Steene and exhibitions programme manager Cornelia Marland will both be speaking at the event, which will also include BSL interpretation. To book please see the events page at www.outsidein.org.uk or contact Cornelia, details on page 46. | 17
Jo Baring Virtual Gallery Outside In’s latest virtual exhibition has been curated by Jo Baring, director of the Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art, a former director of Christie’s UK and the cohost of the top arts podcast ‘Sculpting Lives’, has curated Outside In’s latest virtual exhibition. Jo said the selection process was an ‘absolute joy’. She added: “I was delighted by the sheer creativity of the works. It was so enticing to look through a collection which has a real breadth of materials being used in such an imaginative way.” “I deliberately did not stick to a theme or a particular style; for me the enjoyment was in being surprised, seeing how these artists were using textiles, unusual materials, abstraction or traditional figuration to create works which moved me. I would encourage people to look through the Outside In collection themselves and defy anyone not to find something they would happily have on their own walls!” Layers of Creativity can be seen at www. outsidein.org.uk now. 18 |
Jo Baring
Gum Nut Folk by Joanna Simpson
Ancestor by Anthony Stevens
Selection of works by Friedrich Nagler | 19
All Creatures Great and Small by Chaz Waldren 20 |
Stuff by Jonathan Pettitt
Embroidery 2 by Cecilia Montague
Bonfire Story by Robin Meader Knight by Jasna Nikolic | 21
Strange Relations Fabrica and Outside In are pleased to announce a new exhibition opening this Autumn. Strange Relations by artists Simon Le Boggit and Carys Reilly explores extremity and diversity - inviting audiences to experience work of an extremely large scale and that at a tiny, intimate size. For exhibition visitors, the contrast of the artists’ works offers a playful ‘sizeshifting’ experience. Liz Whitehead, Director, Fabrica said: “We are delighted to collaborate with Outside In to bring the work of Carys Reilly and Simon Le Boggit to Fabrica as part of our 25th anniversary year programme. The works play with the scale of our unique gallery spaces and positions the visitor as the ‘norm’ in the room. Playing with the norms of human scale, looking beyond the norms of human experience and questioning the cultural norms in current exhibition making are key themes in the exhibition.” Strange Relations takes place from 9 October– 28 November 2021 and there will be a series of events running throughout. 22 |
Simon and Carys at Fabrica, Brighton For more information visit www.outsidein.org. uk or call 01903 898171
Even giants have to bend by Simon
Neoangiogenesis I by Carys
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Kindred Spirits
Meet the artist curators The Kindred Spirits exhibition – showcasing Outside In’s collection in response to works from the Jerwood Collection – will be at The Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire, from 20 November. Five Outside In artists have been selected to curate the exhibition, they are: Hayley Hindle, Pamela Schilderman, Angela Chudley, melissandre varin and Corinne. Here three of the artists share why the project appealed to them, what their hopes are for the exhibition and how being involved in curation impacts them as artists:
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Hayley Hindle - Our starting point is ‘Kindred Spirits’- and there are a lot of jumping off points we could take. I’m excited to see how we can integrate everyone’s creative ideas to build something unique and compelling for the gallery that will really resonate with audiences. We’ve also talked a lot as a group about how we can create an exhibition that has accessibility at the heart of the design, as well as a resonant integrity. The Outside In collection and the Jerwood Collection are compelling bodies of work and I’m hopeful that we can take the challenges imposed by the limitations of time, display space and theme to make an exhibition to be proud of!
Corinne - My desire to learn about these important collections, whilst developing my curatorial skills drew me to this project. I’m bedbound and within my current and future curatorial practice aim to challenge the idea of who can be a curator. I’m so thankful for Outside In supporting me to take part remotely, from the safety of bed. My hope is that Kindred Spirits can be enjoyed both physically at The Harley Gallery and remotely. I believe the skills I’m learning, will support and inform a series of exhibitions being curated by myself and my newly formed Collective of housebound artists.
melissandre varin - My hopes for the exhibition have already been met as I have gained knowledge, developed, and nurtured relationships with fellow artists interested in curation. It has not been easy but out of this training I can say that my curatorial understanding has deepened, my patience and capacity to hold space for others’ opinions and desires has grown, and I am confident in the fact that Kindred Spirits is going to be a meaningful moment at the Harley’s gallery. For more, please see outsidein.org.uk or contact José, details on page 47. | 25
Laura Ford Interview
The guest artist for the new Inside Outside In podcast episode is Laura Ford. She spoke to director Marc Steene about the role exhibitions have played for her. Marc: In terms of exhibitions Laura, in your career which ones do you think were the standout exhibitions for you or career changing? Laura: You never know what’s career changing. You know, sometimes you do a show and nobody appears interested at all. So I did a show, for instance, with these works called head thinkers and they were little children’s bodies with donkey’s heads. And I remember the reception was really not very good. Nothing sold, people were very confused about the show. But then, those works have become kind of seminal, actually, you know, they all eventually sold, and they all eventually led to really interesting other shows. It just shows you can come out of an exhibition feeling like, ‘oh, my God really messed up’ but don’t ever feel like that because you love the Headthinker 7 by Laura Ford work and invest in the work. 26 |
Marc: What purpose do exhibitions play for you as an artist, a sculptor? Laura: Well, I suppose it gives you the opportunity to step back from the work and to reexamine it, to rethink. So you know, often in your studio, you feel that work means this, it means that and you’ve got these fantasies about this narrative. When you put it out there and it becomes something separate from you. And that’s useful when to take back into the studio for the next lot of work that you make.
Marc: Is there any advice you’d give to somebody who might be an aspiring sculptor who is really trying to find a way with their work in the world? Laura: Well, I think it’s very important to connect up with other artists. So probably early on, when I was finding it very difficult to get exhibitions, I would get together with friends, fellow artists that I felt I had a connection. I think that’s really important because that stops you from just being very insular, and it helps them get the work out to galleries with less of
an effort, and if you get rejected, it makes the rejection lessen. And actually I have done group shows as well that I’ve that I’ve installed or initiated with other people I think that’s really important. Obviously, it’s just really important to just keep working. The full interview is available on the podcast via our website. Alternatively please get in touch with Matt Forbes-Dale, Matt would also love to hear from anyone interested in getting involved with the podcast or who has thoughts or suggestions for it.
Headthinker 3 by Laura Ford | 27
Outside In at the RA Summer Show The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021 is being co-ordinated by Yinka Shonibare and explores the theme of ‘Reclaiming Magic’ to celebrate the joy of creating art. These pages feature work by Outside In artists that has been selected for the exhibition which opened on 22 September and runs until 2 January. Outside In director and founder Marc Steene said: “It is encouraging to see that the Royal Academy is continuing its approach to a wider inclusion and diversity in the type of artists and art it includes in the Summer Show and we are delighted that work by our artists has been selected for display. There is still much more to be done to move excluded artists to the main stages and spaces of the art world, but we celebrate the RA’s steps in the right direction.” Our congratulations to everyone involved. 28 |
Yinka Shonibare RA in 2017 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photo: David Parry / © Royal Academy of Arts
Artist: Jan Arden “My inspiration comes from a love of folk art. I find folk art and outsider art and art brut is really authentic because it’s coming from a real deep space within ourselves,” says Jan. He says that from the Egyptian hieroglyphics to whalebone carvings made by sailors he is fascinated by the way people have used materials to illustrate ‘different things that they saw and experienced in life’.
This love is for me and you. So with an open heart inquiry bound listen to the sacred sounds dance within natures bowers embracing lifes many showers. For peace cannot come from things if within your heart you do not sing. It’s within the pleasure be a transcendent love that sets us free.
Due to Jan’s passion for work to connect with feelings and experiences, the titles for his art are linked to emotion. This is a poem he has written to go with Prema Love: Love is pure when we take a chance to seek to share and enhance what we are and to become this love I know is for everyone. It’s within our hearts never to leave its why we express the need, the need to be as one in spirit free from the shackles of what to do, this love is pure this love is true.
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Artist: Colin Cameron “I am still astonished, as I had had no aspirations to this when I painted these pictures a few months ago. I paint, principally for my own amusement, in acrylics on canvases. My characters are slightly ridiculous and a bit grotesque - a bit like most people in real life.” Colin’s paintings are based on old black and white photographs – mostly dating from the 1950s and 60s – which he buys from a stall at the flea market held every weekend at Tynemouth Metro Station in the North East of England. Despite there being hundreds of old photos, showing thousands of people, he said that while ‘they were each saying “Look at me!”’ and ‘celebrating their individuality’ ‘what stands out is their sameness’. He explains: “I find painting pictures of nondisabled people with their fingers up their noses liberating. It is a way of emphasising their grotesqueness. However absurd I might think my paintings are, the fact that two of them are currently shortlisted by the Royal Academy suggests there must be something to all of this.” 30 |
Mourners, picking noses by Colin Cameron
Families, picking noses by Colin Cameron
Pop Tarts by Patrick Moses
Clapham Junction by Ian Wornast
Chandrakant Patel
Nnena Kalu
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Bianca Raffaella said: “I am delighted and honoured to have been selected for the Royal Academy summer exhibition 2021. This years summer show theme, celebrates diversity and inclusivity in the visual arts. As a registered blind artist and designer, I overcome my visual impairment by creating art and addressing topics such as body perception and diversity within my paintings and drawings. My unusual method of painting is adapted to my level of sight and I use palette knifes and muted colours that mimics my level of vision. This is my first ever public exhibition and I feel so proud to be exhibiting one of my favourite portraits “Gold” Acrylic on canvas 2021. I was overjoyed and excited to have met Royal academicians Yinka Shonibare CBE – RA coordinator of the summer show 2021 and Mali Morris RA – Curator of room VI where my work is hanging. 32 |
Gold by Bianca Raffaella
Goldink100 said: I have been painting since the age of six years old, I am self taught. My art does a lot to me mindfully, when I am painting I am meditating. These methods I have inherited from my ancestors. It is expressionist art, it is all personal expressions – it is a lot of family and friends. I don’t just do one kind of art, I do different art – I communicate with my colours. When I see what I have created it makes me feel proud and makes me happy, it gives me ambitions to do more. I like critics of my art as it wakes me up and I like good feedback too, I compare notes to carry on creating good art in the future.
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Artists’ View - Exhibitions Two Outside In artists share the exhibitions that have had an impact on them – and the ones they would like to see in the future.
Ashley Ferrari The exhibition that has had a great impact on me was ‘Into The Woods’ curated by Magical Women in February 2021. This was a series of exhibitions and events celebrating Imbolc, an ancient festival marking the return of light after winter. For my solo exhibition I created a series of works featuring the soft glow of misty nights, and the first flush of dawn on the horizon. These pieces were inspired by the idea of finding comfort in being alone yet at one with the earth and sky. Having my work introduced with stirring words from curator Elinor Rowlands created, for me, a sense of belonging, which has contributed to my development as an artist. I would love to participate in a series of Outside In exhibitions curated by, and showcasing, neurodivergent female-identifying 34 |
artists. Neurodivergent women are particularly marginalised due to the impact of gender norms on the perception of ‘being different’; and yet, there is potential to reclaim our power and take up the space that is rightfully ours.” Find out more here: www.magicalwomen.co.uk
Tranquility (Oil on Canvas, 20” x 16”, Nov 2020)
Sherrie Edgar UnNatural History curated by Invisible Dust at The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum looked at the past, current, and future of our relationships with natural history. The exhibition displayed how artists were intrinsic at the beginning of natural history science and how contemporary artists look at nature for us to understand climate change. I did not know what to expect, the gallery provided what was like a biosynthetic path of discovery that engaged with all senses. All artworks were exceptional and thought-provoking. Being a practicing visual artist mostly using digital film I was amazed by the scale of screen artworks, Dubmorphology, Lisa Reihana, Francis Upritchard, Doug Aitken, John Gerrard, and David Claerbout, the first time I had seen so many films on display at The Herbert. As a visitor, you could really see how the £1.2 million refurbishment funding improved hosting large, world-class exhibitions. One artwork that was suggestive to me was
‘The Pure Necessity’, a 2016 film showing the Disney Jungle Book characters in their natural habitat, instantly illustrating how the influences of youth culture are reciprocated through media. The film provides an unusual feeling demonstrating the profound effect of model behavior, not everything is singing and dancing. It is our human activity that causes the most harm to the environment. This exhibition had shown me you can take mindpops and subtly and inadvertently change our psychological behaviour, i.e. the audience in the viewing gallery can become the film.
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Artist News - alabamathirteen alabamathirteen takes us behind the scenes of her residency at The Art House, Wakefield, which she was awarded following a call out with Outside In.
About alabamathirteen
I am a disabled, working-class artist living and working in Leeds. Largely self-taught, my practice focuses on my own personal limitations exploring, navigating and negotiating my memories and senses in the spaces I occupy as a disabled woman. I am interested in how we exist in our bodies, places and spaces. In who gets to take up the most space and whose voices get to be heard the loudest. Much of my work is underpinned by the celebration of non- conforming bodies as an act of defiance, and a desire to contribute to diverse and inclusive narratives around disability. In order to make the residency more accessible for me we decided to split the time into two 36 |
Artworks from alabamathirteen’s residency
Artworks from alabamathirteen’s residency
parts. I was given my own studio space, supported with developing an access document, and was able to stay in the accessible accommodation that The Art House has on site. This level of attention to supporting my access needs was definitely a highlight! Most residencies aren’t accessible to me because of my disabilities, so I think residencies like the one with The Art House are incredibly important to start to address that inequity and allow disabled artists the same type of opportunities afforded to non-disabled artists to develop their creative practice and advance their careers. The focus of my residency so far has been researching sustainable photographic processes. I am particularly interested in cameraless processes such as anthotypes and chlorophyll prints, which are images created using plant based matter which allow me to explore my complicated relationship with
outdoor spaces. It was quite magical seeing the first images produced using nothing more than a bunch of spinach!! Another aspect of anthotypes I am particularly interested in is that they cannot be fixed like a regular photograph, meaning the images will eventually disappear unless they are kept in darkness. Conceptually I am interested in how this challenges our perception of photography as capturing and fixing a moment in time and relating this transitory and ephemeral quality to themes of memory and self-identity that often appear in my work. As I mentioned earlier, I will be returning to The Art House in November to do the rest of my residency. I’m really excited to spend some time in the new community dark room opening there later this year, as well as starting preparing for a solo exhibition there in July 2022. So watch this space as that will be the biggest outcome by far! | 37
Artist News - Bursary Yas Crawford, Frances Halsey and Jackie Bennett are the recipients of this year’s Arts Society South Downs Dr Andrew Edney Bursary. Here they reveal their plans for the £500 fund.
Cellular Flow Series by Yas Crawford 38 |
Fine Art Photographer Yas likes to work in ‘the grey space’ between art and other disciplines. Currently that means exploring the possibilities between art and science. Yas explains: “I am working on a project entitled ‘Cellular Flow’ which will reveal through abstraction an unlabelling of illness.” The bursary funds will be used to help Yas develop video skills, travel to see specialist experts and galleries to prepare for an exhibition.
Frances’ love of the outdoors, colours, shadows and reflections can often be seen reflected in her work. She’s very protective of her work – it’s her way of communicating the unique way she sees and experiences the world. Due to her complex needs, Frances is very isolated and unable to access things in the community, so the bursary provides an incredible opportunity for Frances to develop her skills further and to be recognised as an artist.
Work by Frances Halsey | 39
Inspired by the fibre artists of the seventies and pioneers including Tadek Beutlich, Jackie’s woven artworks ‘aim to capture the essence of a thought or feeling’ as a physical, textural expression. She plans to spend the bursary on gaining mentoring. “It is another big step-up for me,” she says. “I feel it will boost my self-esteem by supporting me to focus on analysing my art practice, with help from others that is tailored to my needs. 40 |
Sheffield Park by Jackie Bennett
About the Bursary
The Andrew Edney Artist Bursary is designed to support artists’ practice and development. It is the result of a ten-year partnership between Outside In and The Arts Society South Downs and sees artists able to apply for amounts up to £500. As well as the artists showcased here, it has previously been awarded to Katya Solyanko, Eva Marschan-Hayes and Eleana Button (2019) and Clarke Reynolds, Julia Fry and Andrea Mindel (2020). Next year’s bursary applications are set to open in the Spring. For more information please contact Hannah Whitlock, details on page 46.
One For Sorrow by Andrea Mindel
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Keep Creative
Nature Collage Hello, I am Eva Marschan-Hayes, a photo artist and creative wellbeing facilitator. My workshop is called ‘Create – Click – Connect’. It uses collage with materials from nature and photography. It also has a mindfulness focus. What you will need: • A4 paper white or coloured • A phone or camera to take a picture with • A range of natural collage making materials of your choice
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Collage materials could include different coloured spices, dried herbs and materials collected outdoors such as leaves, fresh flower petals, twigs, feathers and flat stones
Step 1. Find a comfortable seat, close your eyes and relax. When you are relaxed think of something which has made you happy. When you feel ready, begin.
Step 2. I find being playful is best for me, but you might prefer to plan your artwork. Go with what works best for you. Arrange and position your materials While you are creating pay attention to the materials, how they feel and if they have a smell.
Step 3. Once you feel happy with your result, take a photo, ideally in good light. You can use your phone, tablet, or camera, whatever suits you most. If you are still feeling creative, you can use your digital tools on your phone/tablet or computer and edit your image. You may just want to enhance colours & light of your assemblage or modify the image, changing colours and texture. Outside In would love to see the work you’ve created. Please share your work by: Posting a picture to: Outside In, PO BOX 810, Chichester, PO19 9WF Or emailing: Laura.Miles@outsidein.org.uk
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Keep Creative
Faces Are Easy
Step 1. Draw an upside-down egg.
Step 2. Draw a line half-way horizontally and vertically. Hi, I’m Kate, an Outside In ambassador and Step Up workshop leader. I’ve been involved with Outside In for over 15 years. Faces are structurally the same so here is a guide to remove the terror out of drawing them. You will need: • Something to draw/paint on • Something to draw with – e.g. pencil, crayon, felt tip pen
Step 3. Cut each vertical section in half and put a dot on the intersection for the pupils of the eyes.
Step 4. Cut the bottom horizontal section in half (bottom of nose).
Step 5. Then cut the very bottom horizontal section in half again (centre of lips).
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Step 7. These will now allow all the basic features of the face to be marked.
Notes from Kate: • The eyes are half-way down the face. There is an eye-width between each eye. • The top of the ears aligns with the middle of the eyes (otherwise your glasses fall off!). The bottom of your ears aligns with the bottom of your nose. • Width of the bottom of your nose aligns with the inside of your eyes. • The width of your lips runs from pupil to pupil of your eyes.
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Contacts Marc Steene Director Marc founded Outside In to challenge concepts as to who is an artist and what art is, seeking to create a fairer art world. Marc.Steene @outsidein.org.uk 07814 831567
Hannah Whitlock Artist Development Programme Manager Hannah supports artists’ development in a wide range of areas. Hannah.Whitlock@ outsidein.org.uk 07903 028270
Cornelia Marland and Charlotte Hanlon Exhibitions Programme Managers Cornelia and Charlotte love Clair Montier Kate Davey finding exciting Operations Training Programme opportunities for Manager Manager artists to showcase Kate leads Outside Clair is responsible for their artwork. In’s training and all logistics and ensuring Cornelia.Marland everything is running @outsidein.org.uk development programme ‘Step Up’. Kate.Davey@ smoothly. Clair.Montier Charlotte.Hanlon outsidein.org.uk @outsidein.org.uk @outsidein.org.uk 07903 028391 07903 028746 01903 898171
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Beth Hopkins Ambassador Assistant Beth works to help to recruit, train and support the charity’s brilliant team of ambassadors. Ambassadors@ outsidein.org.uk
José Forrest Hub Programme Manager José focuses on raising the profile and diversity of artists in the Midlands. Jose.Forrest @outsidein.org.uk 07496 99733
Matt Forbes-Dale Communications Coordinator Matt brings commercial thinking to the comms team and is behind the charity’s new podcast. Matthew. Forbes-Dale@ outsidein.org.uk 07903 028452
Laura Miles Communications Manager Laura is passionate about all media, from newsletters and the website to this magazine. Laura.Miles @outsidein.org.uk 07496 637214
Beth Troakes Development Co-ordinator Beth makes the charity’s work possible by bringing in vital funding and securing grants. Beth.Troakes @outsidein.org.uk 01903 898171 | 47
Postcard Fundraiser Outside In’s first Postcard Fundraiser has been met with a phenomenal response from both Outside In and guest artists, with hundreds of works submitted around the theme, A Brighter Tomorrow. Guest artists who have generously created work include Laura Ford, Lubaina Himid, Tony Heaton and Jacqui Poncelet. Studios and organisations around the UK including Venture Arts, Darlington Arts, Project Artworks, Buzz Hub St Helens and TheRightToWork.co.uk have also kindly and enthusiastically got involved and we have received incredible and diverse artworks ranging from paintings to collages, ceramics to textiles.
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The postcards will be exhibited on Outside In’s website in November, and available to purchase for £75 per card to raise funds for Outside In’s exhibitions programme. We will also be selecting 12 works by Outside In artists to feature in a 2022 art calendar, which will also go on sale as part of the fundraiser – those purchasing two postcards will also receive a calendar free of charge.
An enormous thank you to everyone who has sent in work and helped in this first campaign – we are overwhelmed and delighted by the level
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of support. Please keep an eye on our website and social media for further announcements or contact Matt Forbes-Dale, details on page 47.
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Outreach Ambassador Kevin Preston shares how he is helping to share the news of Outside In. When I talk to artists, art clubs and art classes, I can leave the magazines with them which I did recently. I found this a positive experience, just a recent example: Leadworks, an artist hub in Plymouth that hold exhibitions for artists and helps artist with learning disabilities, was really impressed with the work Outside In do from reading the magazines. They asked me if I would help with art classes for them and this will lead to them joining Oustside In for the extra support they need.
in helping artist with no discrimination, nothing’s to much trouble, there’s always a solution to a problem. I’m really honoured and proud to be part of Outside In. If you would be interested in distributing magazines in your community please contact Laura Miles, details on page 47.
I had a really enjoyable time distributing the magazines. I’ve taken them to the Artside - an art shop that works with the students and lots of artists in Plymouth, The Plymouth College of Art and design and left them for the students to read and I gave one to a veteran like myself because he was really interested in joining. I really enjoy doing this because Outside In are a great charity that put a selfless commitment 50 |
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