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This is an example of one of Artquest E-Letter, sent 13 February 2009.
In this issue:
- OZ residency applications open – deadline Monday 2 March
- Artelier update
- Who owns the commissioned artwork?
- Ex Machina update
- Self Assembly update
- <<3 months in Berlin>> update
1. OZ: Sydney residency returns for third edition
Residency dates: 15 June 2009 for three months
Deadline: 9am, Monday 2 March 2009
Application information on the Artquest website.
OZ is a part of Artquest’s ongoing visual arts residency programme in partnership with Parramatta Artists Studios and ACAVA, sending one lucky practitioner to western Sydney for three months. In 2009, the residency is due to begin on 15 June, and we are now seeking applications from visual artists living and working in London for this opportunity.
The selected artist receives:
- live / work apartment space in Parramatta Artists Studios, western Sydney;
- free return travel to Sydney (worth £800);
- £200 materials fee;
- £1,000 stipend;
- professional development advice from Parramatta Artists Studio staff;
- the chance for an exhibition of the work created in Sydney.
This residency is a practice-based opportunity to develop a new body of work and international networks.
In return, the selected artist is required to send a minimum of three written reports (each 500-800 words) giving practical information about the Sydney art scene, to be received by Artquest during the residency. The reports will be published on the Artquest website for the benefit of other visual artists – previous reports can be found at the OZ project page and the Artquest Project Archive.
OZ is open to any visual artist living and working in London in any medium. Previous awardees are Maria Amidu and Jaye Ho – their work can be viewed at the OZ project page.
Shortlisted applicants will be invited for an informal meeting on either 9 or 11 March at Artquest before final selection is made.
Deadline is 9am, Monday 2 March 2009.
OZ is in association with ACAVA and Parramatta Artists Studios, and applications support is by Jotta.
2. Artelier update
Artquest’s latest online project, Artelier, allows visual artists and craftspeople the opportunity to network online and arrange reciprocal studio visits, anywhere in the world, and all for free.
Since launching in November 2008, Artelier has attracted over 130 practitioners from all parts of the UK, Canada, Australia, Israel, France, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Turkey, Switzerland, Nepal, Mexico, South Africa, the Netherlands, USA, Cyprus, India, Denmark and Portugal, all looking for collaborators and many for studio and apartment exchanges. And as Artelier only accepts practitioners by recommendation by our extensive list of partners and existing members, we know the network is safe and professional.
Artelier is flexible enough to enable practitioners who want to meet people around the corner as well as around the world, with a search facility to see who’s around in your immediate neighbourhood. You always control the amount of private information you share with others, until you finally decide to meet up or communicate outside of the website, and there are plenty of artists on the site just interested in communicating instead of making studio exchanges.
Once you’re signed up, you can invite artists you know from anywhere in the world on to the site, extending the network and encouraging wider participation.
If you would like to join the growing number of practitioners interested in local, national and international exchange and networking in Artelier, send a current artist CV or portfolio website address to artelier@artquest.org.uk and request an invitation.
3. Who owns the commissioned artwork?
The artistic, legal and ethical implications of the commissioning process
A seminar organised by Own It in partnership with Artquest.
Date: Monday, 30 March 2009
Time: 6-9pm, panel discussion from 6-8pm followed by drinks/networking
Venue: tbc
Admission free.
As places are limited please register online and reserve your place on the Own It website.
Commissioning and collecting artworks presents aesthetic, ethical and legal challenges to artists, collectors and curators. Should institutions always be faithful to the intentions of artists when displaying their artworks? What rights should artists have to authorise the exhibition of their artworks after they have been sold? This seminar discusses the impact of artist’s rights on the commissioning and collecting process and the responsibilities of collectors and curators to living and dead artists.
Speakers include Daniel McClean of law firm Withers LLP and Kate Bush, Head of Art Galleries, Barbican.
Full information, booking and speakers biographies available on the Own It website.
4. Ex Machina tickets sold out
Ex Machina is a one-day conference exploring digital manufacturing in fine art, crafts and design practice, to be held at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
Tickets have now sold out, but Artquest will be recording the whole event and making all the audio available online around two weeks after the conference takes place on 24 February 2009.
Chair and speakers include:
- Martin Watmough, Director, Digital Manufacturing Centre at London at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL
- Evelyn Welch, Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary College London
- Professor Jane Prophet, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University
- Geoffrey Mann, Studio*Mrmann Aberdeen
- Dr Jayne Wallace, Research Associate in Fine Art & Culture Laboratory Newcastle University
- Dr Katie Bunnell, Leader Autonomatic Research Cluster, University College Falmouth
- Simeon Nelson, Professor of Sculpture, School of Art & Design, University of Hertfordshire
- Philip Delamore, Research Fellow, London College of Fashion
- Matthew Lewis, Centre Manager, Metropolitan Works (Plenary Session)
Ex Machina is supported by Arts Council England, University of the Arts London, Crafts Council, CITIN, Metropolitan Works, the Exchange partnership and LCACE.
5. Self Assembly rescheduled
If like Artquest you were snowed in last Monday, you’ll not be surprised that we had to postpone our first Self Assembly talk. Self Assembly is a new talks project for 2009 bringing together the expertise of Artquest’s practitioner advisors and invited speakers on a variety of topics. The first session, around Funding, announced in December 2008, has been rescheduled for Thursday 19 February 2009, and all tickets have now been sold out.
If you have booked a ticket, a reminder about the time, venue and speakers can be found on the Self Assembly page on Artquest.
We aim to run Self Assembly talks every other month, and are considering Self Promotion or Peer Mentoring for our next session. Let us know what you’d like us to cover so we know we’re presenting the most relevant projects for current practitioners. Send your ideas or comments for future seminars to Russell Martin.
6. <<3 months in Berlin>>
The second <<3 months in Berlin>> residency was completed in December 2008 by Michelle Deignan.
Michelle has completed three on the ground reports and a blog about her exploits, tips and musings on the Berlin art scene, which together form an invaluable guide to practitioners interested in this most dynamic and open art scene.
You can read all about what she got up to on the Artquest website.
<<3 months in Berlin>> is run in partnership with ACAVA.
