As we grow we want to help artists develop too. We will be inviting practitioners to take up residence at NAE and create new work here. Our purpose-built studio will host residencies encouraging creativity within the space.
If you are an artist that would like to get involved at New Art Exchange, get in touch with our Senior Curator, David Schischka Thomas on dave@nae.org.uk.
Our current Artist in Residence is Jasim Ghafoor
“With its modern warfare, imperialism and the quasi-theological ambitions of totalitarian rulers is indeed the age of refugees, the displaced person, mass immigration” - Eduard Said (Reflections on Exile)
Refugee experiences are a small fraction of the cruelty and injustice within the current socio economical system. However this injustice has been justified and injected into the social unconsciousness and created reactions that add to the pre-enforced ideological domination. The overlapped visualised characteristics of these hurts and unjust are reflected in my art practice. Taking from my own experience, and for this project I intend to investigate the engraved affects of the issue of displacement and exile on my memory and the memory of any individual refugee and asylum seekers. The project will also be looking at the historical roots of the current experiences and reveals its mystical dimension in order to re-exhibits its influence throughout generations.
www.jasimghafur.zoomshare.com | http://jghafur.blogspot.com
Dates: 9 August - 17 September 2010
Forthcoming Resident Artists
New Art Exchange launches its new local to international residents’ initiative providing space, time, and resources for aspiring to established artists, students, and those interested in social research. Residents will have the opportunity to deliver community engagement activities from open studios to family friendly workshops.
Ambika Sethi / I am an artist who was born and raised in India. Owing to the influence of the Indian culture, my work has a tone of spirituality and vibrancy in it. Coming to England and working here has been a big change, in a way my work responds to this impact of change and uncertainty, which I represent through movement and transition. Employing the use of photography, still image animations, sound and projection on a large scale, I am interested in looking at things in great detail and exploring them through presenting different angles to the viewer. I endeavour to create a visual journey for the audience with sound adding a third dimension to the video projections.
Dates: 20 September - 15 October 2010
Past Resident Artists
Sonia Khurana / Sonia Khurana’s art practice embraces areas in-between video, photography, elements of performance, drawing, installation, and more recently, works in public spaces. She tends to draw critically on these concerns in ways that are often visually simple and understated. Through performative modes, she strives to engage with the constant struggle between body and language, to achieve a corporeal eloquence. Through these deleberately poetic intimations, she strives to persistently explore and re-define the space of the political. For her residency with the NAE, Sonia Khurana will be exploring Nottingham’s local communities relationship with their bodies, and the fragility of most people bodies set against the Olympian ideal. She will deliver workshops within the local community through talking heads, enactments, performances and discussions. Dates: 17 - 28 July 2010
Lucie Sheppard is currently studying for a Masters in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and will be in residence at New Art Exchange from 3rd to 30th June 2010. Her work is heavily based around the exploration and using the unused spaces in the gallery and NAE building as a whole. Through the use of performance and projection Lucie aims toreplace the space that cannot be seen, and so although nothing looks different, a change has been made to the space. Dates: 3 - 30 June 2010
Venkat Raman Singh Shyam and Rajendra Kumar Shyam are special tribal artists all the way from the Gond region of India. They have an exhibition in the Mezzanine Gallery from November 2009, and are running a series of arts workshops with Nottingham-based schools, colleges and community groups during the exhibition. They took part in a special educational residency at New Art Exchange to deliver workshops, network with other artists and present their Gond Traditions through talks and discussions.
Ben Harriot / Ben has worked on numerous projects with New Art Exchange, and with up and coming artists and projects within the local community through his company UrBen Media. Ben has worked on two documentation projects based around Mela 21 - Nottingham Mela 2009 and NAE Community Open Day.
Roshni Belakavadi / Roshni worked on a very special multi-media project with students from Nottingham Trent University. It resulted in a video that was subsequently shown at New Art Exchange. Having done her Undergraduate studies at Kalabhavan, Santiniketan, INDIA she completed her masters at Nottingham, Where she is based at currently.
Laura Ellis / Explored through film, installation and interactivity, Laura Ellis' observations, participation and documentation respond to the positions she adopts within the different social realms she routinely operates in. Constantly shifting between these places, each of the different roles in which she functions, such as the artist, has its own set of audiences.
Laure Pepin / She combines and layers physical theatre, video and projection with live performance, to investigate the female body, and audience interaction with these media. By dismembering the female body and showing a violent female body, she expresses her anger about issues such as post-feminism and the lack of solidarity from the women’s community. Laure Pepin has a background of theatre, studied at Lancaster, UKand earlier at France. She is presently based in Paris.
Ashok Mistry / Following on from the commission to document the construction of the New Art Exchange, Ashok has captured the dynamism of the building through a series of photographs and video clips.