'Re-form'

Anna Roebuck
Resident Standing Room curator:
June 2nd - 29th


Anna Roebuck is currently undertaking a part-time MA researching creative collaborations.

Her work is concerned with the environment, recycling and reuse of materials. She is currently exploring ideas around consumerism and shopping, and challenging herself to produce community led work that engages new art audiences.

'My work crosses the boundaries of fine art, craft, design and community art and I'm interested in the value systems that surround them'. Anna Roebuck

A Standing Room residency is allowing Roebuck to revisit a project that had previously been forced to a premature end due to lack of resources and support.

The project is motivated by the use and reuse of objects and the sharing of skills and ideas. Its theme is the examination and recreation of the shopping experience. Roebuck intends to invite participants to bring unwanted objects to the space and work with her to transform them into something new.

Roebuck will coordinate public participation through a series of 1-2-1 sessions and an ongoing web blog, which can be found at the 'Words' section of this site.

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 Amelia Beavis-Harrison - Resident Curator, April & May 2008

Amelia Beavis-Harrison presents Crumb, a programme of collaborative based exhibitions and events.

For a full programme of events for CRUMB click here!

Amelia is co-founder of Exit Here, a Nottingham based artists' initiative. www.exithere.co.uk

CRUMB showcased artists from studio groups around Nottingham, and encompassed a series of talks from groups outside of Nottingham. The programme also presented Popcorn, a series of film screenings curated around the BFFC's film classification system.

' The ideology behind Crumb is that of taking artist away from their studios and showcasing a little insight into what their current and future practice entails, showing work and ideas in progress along-side finished pieces. Crumb is an opportunity to experiment with what could happen, along-side what already exists' - Amelia Beavis-Harrison.

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Samuel Mercer, Apexa Patel, Hannah Phillips - Resident Curators, January - March 2008

Image copyright Tether

During their residency, Mercer, Patel and Phillips explored and questioned ways of generating ideas and creative outputs, standards of quality and selection, and artistic/curatorial authority.

The group graduated in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and are members of Tether. www.tether.org.uk

During the residency Tether developed a mock production studio. They invited artists/animators/filmmakers to make a short film under the following brief:

- You must respond to or adapt a script written by the artists in residence.
- You will have up to 12 hours use of the mock production studio.

The artists in residence have made relevant props. You may request any additional props prior to the filming day.

Actors are not provided.

Postproduction can continue until 30th June 2008, in time for screenings during the Summer.

During the filming process the artists in residence will become production assistants.

There will be a meeting arranged prior to filming where potential ideas and necessities will be discussed

 

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Christopher Parkes - Artist in Residence,  November 25 - February 4

image: copyright Christopher Parkes

Christopher Parkes is a graduate of Fine Art at Staffordshire University. He is a member of AirSpace studios, Stoke on Trent.

During his residency Parkes has worked on a durational piece that grew in response to the various stages of Allotments' curation, from its installation to its reconfiguration when toured to Long Eaton's town hall.

Event at HMS: Saturday 26th January 2008, 12 midday - 2pm

 

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Allotments

An exhibition brought together by an online submission process whereby artists occupying individual plots of 15" x 15" will share a communal space.

Some works are for sale. To view works please visit the Allotments gallery.

Allotments is supported by The co-operative Membership Community Fund.

 

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Residual Traces