As part of our programme at Chapel Arts Studios we are introducing Artist In Residency schemes to support graduate and emerging artists. We want to create an environment whereby the creativity born of the studios has an opportunity to expand out into the wider social context. We aim to deliver artist-led projects in a variety of locations. The first target area has been education: schools and colleges. The second target area is the archival and museum based institution. Andover Iron Age Museum will be the location for this position. We will post more information over the coming months on this development.
We launched our first Educational Project Residency on June 1st.
The second, at Winton Secondary School, began January 2011
The third was at Rookwood School and ran until January 2012
The fourth is currently at Vigo Junior School, and will run until July 2012.
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The third studio place at Chapel Arts is given over to the holder of the Educational Project Residency, and rotates every six months. For this residential programme we are loking to create a situation of mutual exchange between the artist and the institution. For more information about this post, see below.
Education Project Residency: Rookwood School. 2011
Alessandra Cattaneo
During this third residency, Alessandra will split her practice between the Chapel Arts Studios and Rookwood School.The school has generously allocated Alessandra a room to use, and this will be dedicated soley to the development of a body of work that will grow from collaborations between Alessandra and the pupils.
During the Educational Residency at Rookwood School Alessandra will be engaging with Year 9 pupils. With the first rotation of students she will be running ‘The Making Space’ a collaborative project that allows students to see how an artist works but also lets them become involved. A designated room will house an installation that will be built, altered, enhanced and developed by both the artist and the pupils in turn. This project not only allows students to be creative outside of the normal classroom environment but also introduces the concept of interactive art and builds key transferable skills.
The second rotation of students will be challenged by a different project based around contemporary themes including the values of art, free giveaways, exhibiting styles and the audience response. Both projects will be celebrated with a joint exhibition at Chapel Arts Studios in January to showcase the achievements of pupils and highlight the relationship that has been built with the artist.
At the end of the EPR residency, CAS opened the studios to the Rookwood pupils allowing them to showcase the work that they and Alessandra had produced over the the past few months:
"PLAY/MAKE/LEARN is an exciting exhibition that showcases the work produced by Year 9 students at Rookwood School in collaboration with artist in residence Alessandra Cattaneo.
The main body of this work has been about experimentation, thinking about art differently and has allowed students to be creative in a way they are passionate about. Firstly the students involved were given free reign over choosing an image that was of interest to them, they used books and the internet to find an image of a famous work that they would then transcribe. With a wide variety of selections from Van Gogh to Banksy these transcriptions were the starting point for the project.
Students were encouraged to make works that were originally 2D into a 3D piece, a painting into a collage or a photograph into a sketch. Students chose their own media and image giving them a great freedom over what they were doing as they worked under guidance and input from resident artist Alessandra Cattaneo. Some chose very challenging works to transcribe whilst others chose more challenging ways of transcribing them. The use of new skills or media that was previously beyond reach, has produced work that has exceeded all expectation.
Students were then introduced to the idea of collaboration, they took part in a playful, constructive task where the properties of materials were challenged. This was in practice for the next task of altering each others work and being inspired by their peers to challenge each others art beyond what was normally expected. Again more new skills were introduced and combined; sewing, chopping, copying and tracing has created another dimension to the original works.
Finally students were to begin to question the value of art and what they had produced. These themes are very current in contemporary art and were a positive way for the students to view their work. By making a multiple, a miniature, a print or a copy, students were able to view their work with more status and also begin to challenge the question of where the art work lies.
This project has gone through a thought provoking cycle to push young students into thinking more critically about art, it has introduced them to contemporary themes, they have questioned the role of the artist have collaborated with each other and with a practising artist to become passionate about a hugely expressive subject."
(text by Alessandra Cattaneo )
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Education Project Residency: Winton School. 2011
Kate Harding
During this second residency, Kate Harding will keep the Chapel Arts Studios as her primary base, and has developed a series of workshops for Winton School that integrates her research practice with the the schools current curriculum. Her focus for this residency is to develop her communication and teaching skills through running guided sessions and a series of artist talks.
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Education Project Residency: Andover College. 2010
Russell Moreton
Andover College provided a dedicated workspace for Russell Moreton to develop his research and practice, sharing his time between the two sites.
Brief outline of initial thoughts and intentions...
"Setting up a Diversion for Creative Exchange.
Interested in grasping the opportunity at Andover College to further advance my postgraduate studies at Canterbury school of Architecture. The Spatial Practice course at Canterbury has opened-up theoretical methodologies into how we practice, perceive and interact with space. My own research project is centred on issues regarding registering working places. Creative investigation and research into this project has evolved through performative acts, drawings with apparatuses and critical theory.
The aim of this area of my research and practice was an attempt to how I might introduce an intervention into a place that will act as a physical baffle a “bookmark/sounding board” which might allow a “stalled site” to be created within the duration of place. This site will be relational to its placement but also annexed. It is hoped that this site, slightly annexed from its formal relations might render creative transdisplinary dialogues, as a gathering place out of the main flow of activities. This spatial device with its relational surfaces and volumes will attempt to harbour a tangible space, a forum of reference even in absence of its author/installer and custodian. It will grant a sense of hospitality, and a working space to those prepared to dwell.
The encountering material dialogue (stuff) of this diversion and its site will initially utilize my experience with contemporary drawing, its gestures and acts and this will be augmented by the malleable and transformative medium of clay. The contemporary issues regarding the use of clay and ceramics amongst contemporary practitioners will be researched, including the growing number of performance and site specific works. The implications and findings of this dialogue might be further transposed into the Architectural realm through surface and volumes amongst other materials and structures."
text by Russell Moreton
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Museum Residency: Andover Iron Age Museum
This will be an exciting opportunity for an artist to make an informed response to the museums collection. Working on site at the Iron Age Museum, and with access to the Central Collection warehouse, the selected artist will have the opportunity to explore several avenues of engagement, develop educational workshops, and exhibit the results at the conclusion of the residential period.
This post is still under development, but we welcome interest at any stage.
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Apply to Chapel Arts Studios: Schools
If you are a school, and would like to participate in the residency scheme, select which format you would like to download the information:
Apply to Chapel Arts Studios: Artists
If you are an artist, and would like to participate in the residency scheme, select which format you would like to download the information:
If you have any difficulty downloading this information, contact us, and we can email it to you.
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Chapel Arts Studios are looking for socially-engaged creative practitioners/artists who can work with us to develop and carry out innovative models for community engagement.
Chapel Arts Studios are looking for artists to fill 6 month studio/residency slots.
Ideally suited to recent graduates or an artist with a specific project in mind, Chapel Studios Project Residency offers the following:
24 hour access to brand new studio space.
Residency in an educational environment (school/college)
Opportunity to gain teaching experience.
Competitive studio rates.
Chapel Arts Studios are situated in a beautifully converted chapel in the grounds of St. Marys church, Andover. This recently re-opened building will function as a creative hub for the Andover region.
Whilst pursuing your own research, you will also be part of a small but focused team of individuals that will be responsible for the generation and delivery of an engaging programme.
Residents will be working in a collective environment where, beyond the personal projects, collaborative practices are strongly encouraged.
Please send your CV with a cover letter explaining your interest and describing your most relevant projects and documentation of recent work to:
David Dixon (Lead Artist/ Programme Co-ordinator)
email: contact@daviddixon.co.uk
or
Michael Widén (Development Officer)
Batsford House
Baptist Hill
St Mary Bourne
Andover
Hampshire
SP11 6BQ
Tel: 01264 738083 Fax: 01264 738083
email: info@testvalleyarts.org
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