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 […]
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 […]
