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.
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.
Academic in Residence - Paul Gladston
Dr. Paul Gladston - Associate Professor of Critical Theory and Visual Culture and Deputy Head of the Department of Culture, Film and Media, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Nottingham. Dates January to July 2012
We will be hosting two members of the European Voluntary Service (EVS), a part of the YOUTH IN ACTION PROGRAMME set up and funded by the European Commission (EC) to promote youth mobility and international voluntary service. Both volunteers will be based at New Art Exchange throughout 2012. You can learn more about the project here.
experiMENTOR Artists
ExperiMENTOR is an artist’s and creatives’ development programme that allows artists at all stages of their careers to expand their skills, knowledge and opportunities and gain support from NAE and its network of friends and contacts. This season three UK- based artists will compliment the arrival of our latest exhibition ‘Everything is Happening At Once’ by world renowned, South Asian artist Rashid Rana in a series of experiMENTOR artist presentations. For more information see our events page.
http://www.thenewartexchange.org.uk/events.php
Alia Pathan makes intricate, circular narratives using moving image, audio and performance. Her artworks investigate how language can be used to negotiate meaning through dilemmas, contradictions and paradoxes. Pathan currently lives and works between Nottingham and London.
Mervyn Mitchell is a Nottingham based Photographic artist whose images have been exhibited in the UK and recently at the Qual Henry Jay, Saint-Louis, exhibition in Senegal. Of his work he says:
“I use the digital negative as my starting point to create images based on my own particular visualization of contemporary photography, multi-cultural issues and challenges in Society today”.
Mervyn is also a Director of ‘Nottingham Photographers Hub', which works with community groups and vulnerable people using photography as a tool for visual creativity. He is the Chair of ‘The Raw Collective’ group of photographers who organise the "Art on the Square" market in Nottingham, which aims to bring together local artists and the local people of Nottingham who find it difficult to engage with Art through the local Art institutions.
Tasawar Bashir's interests lie in film, architecture, music, and the exploration of spirituality within art and the art of spirituality. Previously he was Head of Film Programming at Midlands Art Centre and ran his own very successful video art rentals shop, Cinephillia in Moseley, Birmingham. Bashir is featuring in the Asian Triennial Manchester (ATM) where he will be accompanied by Brian Duffy and has held a Your Space exhibition at the New Art Exchange in 2011.
Sayed Hasan uses art to explore his relationships with the people and places in his life. His work questions accepted norms of culture and society, often taking shape in unorthodox rituals that look to reconcile personal feelings of identity. Since graduating from Goldsmiths in 2009 in MA in Photography and Urban Cultures, Sayed has been using photography and video to document his personal experiences, while finding meaningful ways of communicating his work to the public.
Sayed Hasan currently works and lives in London.
Karl Obulo, now know as IAMKSO is a photographic artist based in London. Since completing his Masters in Photography & Urban Cultures at Goldsmiths College in 2008, his photographic work has examined notions of identity, the human condition and the everyday. IAMKSO’s personal exploration of selfhood has led him to document his ancestral land of Nigeria in on-going work about home and belonging. His work to date is a mixture of conceptual, documentary image making that elegantly communicates complicated emotions to his audience.
Past Resident Artists / Academics
Mark Rawlinson is a Lecturer in Art History at the University of Nottingham. His acemdemic work focusses on 20th / 21st century American art, photogrpahy and visual culture. Rawlinson's work is informed by a long standing interest in critical and visual theory, expecially Theodor Adorno, Wlter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Giles Deleuze, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida. The Residency will focus on the visual cultures and their critical theories. Mark will also be representing a talk on Walter Benjamin's Essay.
Dr Zahera Harb / Academic in Residence /20 May to 6 August / Over the period of the main exhibition, The Zone, Dr Harb moderate key talks, leading a 'Walk and Talk' tour of the exhibition, launch her most recent publication: Channels of Resistance, deliver talks, and explore new ideas for further research during her time with us.
Blackfeather / Agam - in the Hindi language is translated as: "unattainable... inaccessible... incomprehensible" This residency with Nottingham-based artist Blackfeather will use acrylic ink on watercolour paper, music practice and meetings to seek to acknowledge and respect Agam. The intention is to produce accessibe writings, paintings and music recordings during this residency, alongside the exhibition Raghu Rai's 'Invocation to India'.
Jasim Ghafoor / 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. Dates: 9 August - 1 October 2010
Sonia Khurana / Sonia’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.