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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Rebecca Korn

Rebecca Korn's interdisciplinary practice stems from a fascination with the intersections between art and science. Her recent interests explore the posthuman body, investigating ideas around symbiosis, sympoiesis and speculative futures, re/imagining how bodies may adapt/evolve through learning from and with non-human counterparts.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Natalia Janula

Natalia Janula is a Polish-born artist of Roma heritage, currently based in London. Their artistic practice spans sculpture, moving image, installation and performance. They are interested in urban and natural environments and the slippage between the two. Repeated themes within their work include domestic and fictional landscapes, object oriented ontologies, queer interspecies bodies and the natural world.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Gabrielle Hoad

Gabrielle Hoad makes work that includes live, ephemeral elements as well as more lasting documentary traces such as photographs, films, publications and objects. She has a long-standing interest in the crossover of art and science.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Melanie King

Melanie King is an artist and curator with a specific focus on astronomy. She is co-Director of super/collider, Lumen Studios, and the London Alternative Photography Collective. Melanie is a practice-based PhD Candidate in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Naomi Aderonke

Naomi is a burgeoning multidisciplinary research and narrative led artist who has developed their illustrative and narrative skills past digital art and traditional print into 3D work. Exploring ceramics and textile through tufting, Naomi looks at the form, colours and materials used, not just the image, to create the stories they want to tell. Naomi is a storyteller who thrives on folk, history and culture; looking into ways of exploring that through artistic objects.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Sam Metz

Sam Metz is an artist based in Hull who creates work that engages with the concept of ‘neuroqueering’. They create sculptural installations that incorporate both film and animation while exploring body-based responses to ecology. As a neurodivergent artist and curator with sensory processing differences, Sam creates work in non-verbal ways that begin and end in movement and embodied interactions without recourse to traditionally privileged verbal and written forms of communication.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Iram Iqbal

Iram Iqbal is an Islamic artist who creates both traditional and contemporary art. Using Arabic Calligraphy, Islamic architecture, and other symbolic imagery, she uses her art to show the beauty of Islam and address the many misconceptions about it.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Diane Ketteringham

Diane Ketteringham is an interactive installations artist, engaging with passersby to explore their emotional, social and cultural landscapes and inviting them to break conventions. She explores ‘sharing’ in its widest sense through artworks where she is often an active participant.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Nicola Garvey

After changing careers later in life, Nicola Garvey graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Leeds Arts University in 2021. Her work is inspired by the everyday and promotes the overlooked and underrated, which is reflected across the wide range of media that she uses.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Tarla Patel

Tarla Patel explores identity, space and belonging. She combines analogue film and photography with digital media to create layered stories of migration and transition of cultures in today's society. She is also one of the founders of an artist collective called COVert Arts.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Eve Schroeder

Eve Schroeder is a multi-disciplinary artist and maker exploring themes of Fat Justice and Fat activism in contemporary illustration and arts practices. Through this research, she has created work that more accurately and positively represents the fat body.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Jo Liddle

Jo Liddle's practice is based on personal narrative and history, loss, and memory; exploring ideas of time passing and the trace, if any, that we leave behind. She often uses oil paint, but sometimes digital images, to build up a layered surface; removing and rubbing back to reveal a lost memory and creating a tension between the seen and the unseen, or almost seen.

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Don't Tell Me How To Run My Art School

The new book, Don't Tell Me How To Run My Art School, by CuratorSpace member, John Walmsley and Claire Grey is about the sit-in at Guildford School of Art in 1968 which, at the time, was the longest ever at an educational institution in the UK. That schools, colleges and universities in the UK now have students and staff on their Advisory Boards, is a direct result of this sit-in. The book has been acquired by the National Art Library at the V&A and is available to purchase online.

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Revolve:R, edition four / Artwork Gifting

Revolve:R, edition four began in summer 2021 and our bookwork is set to be published by the close of 2023. As edition four kicked off partly with an open-call on CuratorSpace we thought to link back here with an opportunity / offer to coincide with the edition four launch.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #20: Arlo Lawton

Arlo Lawton is a 25-year-old freelance artist and photographer from the North West, now based in Norfolk, England. The basis of their photographic work often lies within LGBTQ+ awareness and environmental activism. Their digital artwork predominantly revolves around transmasculine identities and life experiences.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #20: Ali Pickard

Ali Pickard, otherwise known as The Yaffingale, is interested in which stories are told, and who tells them. Trained in metal art as part of a Women's Welding collective, she creates 3D, kinetic artworks, mixing wood and metal with fabric and embroidery.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #20: Alan Gignoux

Alan Gignoux is an award-winning documentary photographer and founder of Gignoux Photos, which produces documentary photography and film projects focusing on socio-political and environmental issues around the world.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #20: Kofi Perry

Kofi Perry (1998) is an American figurative artist based in London. Using historical methods, he paints and draws characters set in a Afrofuturist world he has created. Critical to his practice is the technique of figurative invention, or working without the use of live models.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #20: Yang-En Hume

Yang-En Hume is an Australian artist with Singaporean heritage. Hume grew up in Sydney, Australia and acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora nation as the traditional owners of that land. She pays her respects to their Elders past and present and extends that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #20: Camilla Stacey

Camilla Stacey is an artist, curator and #topclassfashionmodel based in Penryn, Cornwall. Her practice includes printmaking, installation, collage, drawing and zinemaking, and explores trauma and grief through humour and emotional sensitivity.

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