Banner Repeater is an artist led reading room and project space founded by Ami Clarke in 2009, situated on Platform 1, Hackney Downs railway station, London E8 1LA. It has a reading room dedicated to artists’ printed material that provides an important bibliographic resource for all visitors to BR, alongside an ambitious exhibition programme of […]
Sculpture, Object, Decorative Craft During the Henry Moore Institute Fellowship 2012 my research centred on the relationship between artist, object, design and the interior. This investigation spans the twentieth and early twenty-first century, and looks at the contributions of both individual artists and artists’ collective companies to decorative and functional household wares. Positioning the home […]
“Our month at the Henry Moore Institute was very productive. The fellowship allowed us to take some time out of our busy teaching schedule and focus on art and research. We had originally proposed to look at Oscar Nemon’s design for a temple of universal ethics and explore the representation of such abstract ideas. This […]
Kate Ross is a London based independent curator who has worked extensively in art galleries, museums, arts higher education and arts administration. She curates and delivers exhibitions, arts events and arts programming which explore her curatorial interests including film and artists’ moving image, sound and the non-gallery space. Kate is now an Arts & Culture […]
I am an independent curator and writer. My research currently concerns curatorial practice that relates specifically to contemporary textiles. The research is a practice-led exploration, immersed in the context, theory and history of textile exhibitions. I also co-curate a project titled The Geometrics, which aims to build an anthology of geometric textiles and related research […]
Image: One Lonely Lantern Edinburgh festival Chelsea Arts Club Trust Research Fellow My involvement with the worlds of art and dance combines a formal dance education with work within both not-for-profit and commercial art galleries. Starting out in classical dance, I later studied contemporary dance practice and this lead to my interest in interdisciplinary work […]
Image – Film Still: Performance of Seth Shed, July 2010. Chelsea Arts Club Trust Research Fellow Through performance, ‘happening’ and installation, using sound, text, and image – found and original, my work burrows into the realm of experience and rituality, focusing on the inevitable ceremony of the performance. I am a fragmented storyteller. The journey […]
View video: http://vimeo.com/101298759 My video works involve personal experiences combined with the current context surrounding the political complexity of the Eastern European ambivalence towards engaging with Western culture. I began exploring the effects of nostalgia on people living outside their homelands and the way in which they interact with the new culture they are exposed […]
My practise is fuelled with a need to decipher ideas of erotiscism, anxiety and power in relation to the image. Therefore with the use of the Travel Award I could travel to both Berlin and Rome wherein there were works I could see in the flesh such as Carravagio and Ribera to contemporary pieces by […]
I am currently engaged in a practice-based PhD focusing on the agonistic struggle between art objects and the space in which they are installed, as an avenue for exploring the tensions that exist between the artist, artistic activism and the art institute. Website: www.lanalocke.com
