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I was a recipient of the award in 2007. My name is Zhao Renhui and I was from Camberwell College of Arts, studying a Ba(hons) in photography. The research trip allowed me to explore zoos, natural history museums and circuses in Spain. As I am interested in the Zoological gaze, how humans watch animals, the […]

Naomi Fitzsimmons is a London based artist recently graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design achieving a first class honours in BA Fine Art. Following the success of her degree show Naomi was awarded both the GloguAIR Residency in Berlin and the Acme Chelsea Studio Award 2013/14 as part of the Acme Residency & […]

‘Norman’ My practice explores aspects of ethnography and the observation and documentation of social history. I am particularly interested in the potential failures or inaccuracies within this documentation, due to the limits in gathering and presenting information truthfully, and use this as a way of suggesting alternative narratives through the manipulation and use of versions […]

“The human being… always remains a machine, but that machine directs itself, within the limits of the environment in which it performs, and the faculties it employs.” (André Liesse, Le travail aux points de vue scientifique industriel et social, Paris 1899, p.16) I think of my practice as a series of investigations into the physical […]

‘Working in a variety of media, I play with the traditional roles of varying artistic mediums. In this manner my sculptures become props, performances become documentations of actions, and films (through a process of layering, repetition and re-recording) become a physical manifestation of an idea. The objects I make can either be centre stage in […]

Born February 1987 London Lives and works in London Caroline Jane Harris explores the intricacies of nature through a labour intensive paper-cutting technique. She responds to visual phenomena in nature; the endless geometric patterns found in all levels of existence. Using tree formations as her starting point, Harris creates an idealised aesthetic of nature, through […]

With the generous support of Chelsea Arts Trust Club I was able to start an MA programme in Cultural Heritage Studies at University College London this autumn. This programme specialises in the role that art and cultural heritage play in forming notions of personal and collective identity, with particular focus on thinking beyond Eurocentric practices […]

                  The London Sculpture Workshop (LSW)  is London’s first open access, pay-as-you-go sculpture workshop. LSW is a not-for-profit, community interest based company with exceptional facilities for artists and enthusiasts making in 3D Based at the Bermondsey Project Space, the LSW is a superbly equipped metal and wood […]

Auto-Italia South East is a project developed between Amanda Dennis, Rachel Pimm and Kate Cooper. We started the project to continue to work after college with urgency, playfulness and a consideration for the social context we make work in and how this develops in the future. We wanted to be engaged in contemporary discourse with […]