Bursary winners
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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #24: Sarah Wood
Sarah Wood works with the found object, particularly the documentary image, to interrogate the relationship between the narrating of history and individual memory. Her recent work explores the meaning of the archive, in particular the politics of memory; why some objects are preserved while others are ignored. She also curates artists' film through Club des Femmes, a project co-founded with Selina Robertson.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #24: Samiya Younis
Samiya Younis, a British-born Pakistani artist in London, draws inspiration from her South Asian heritage. Her work blends contemporary and traditional techniques, exploring themes of identity, storytelling, and cultural complexity. Through sculpture, installation, performance, and painting, she challenges narratives, promoting dialogue and new perspectives.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #24: Helen Emily Davy
Helen Emily Davy works in a diverse range of media such as installation, printmaking, collage, stained glass, embroidery, and text, incorporating archival material to examine questions related to subjectivity and the body. She often directs her attention to the intersection of science, technology, and representation, excavating the power dynamics which shape their mutual interactions.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #24: Fiona Campbell
Fiona Campbell is a Somerset-based artist, educator, curator, and a Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. She creates sculptural installations, using recycled and found materials. At the root of her practice is the notion of interconnectedness, with a focus on environmental concerns about human exploitation of nature.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #24: Sarah Goudie
Sarah Goudie works with contemplative making practices to investigate feminist narratives of touch and witness. She is fascinated by the space of drawing and the poetics of beauty and injury, poise and longing through the enduring presence of objects and land.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #24: Diana Terry
Diana Terry works in drawing, painting, collage and sculpture to explore how art can embody thought and emotions. With a background in teaching alongside her professional art practice, she has exhibited extensively including at Merzbarn, Scotland, Kolaj Fest, New Orleans, and The Mall Gallery, London, as well as being selected for the New Light Prize Exhibition.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Luminara Florescu
Luminara Florescu is an artist, curator and creative director living in Somerset, UK. Within her practice, she considers themes of wellbeing and self care, including how disabled artists and those with caring responsibilities can sustain a thriving and exciting art practice. Public engagement, collaboration and playfulness are integral to the activity of co-creation within her work.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Joanna Penso
Joanna Penso is a multi-disciplinary artist based between London and York, UK working with sound-led experiments in film, performance, radio programmes and sound installations. She has exhibited nationally, including at St Ives September Festival, Aesthetica, Southwark Park Galleries, The Lakeside Centre, and Nunnery Gallery.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Sarah Wishart
Sarah Wishart is a film maker, writer, and artist based in Glasgow’s Southside. They have a PhD in how the documentation of live art includes the memories of audiences. Collaborative practice is a key component in much of their work.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Emily Joy
Emily Joy (UK, 1982) is a socially and environmentally engaged artist making sculpture, installation, and performative work. Emily is also a ceramic sculpture tutor and facilitates public creative projects as half of creative partnership ‘Periscope’. Currently exploring Swiss glacial melt and associated ecological and social impacts, her practice centres around communication, empathy and ecology.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Jacqui Barrowcliffe
Jacqui Barrowcliffe lives and works in North Yorkshire where her practice focuses on exploring human connections to nature and evolving environmental threats. She works across disciplines but is particularly drawn to photography and installation, often responding to a specific space or context through temporary interventions.
More detailsCuratorSpace 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.
More detailsCuratorSpace 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.
More detailsCuratorSpace 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.
More detailsCuratorSpace 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.
More detailsCuratorSpace 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.
More detailsCuratorSpace 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.
More detailsCuratorSpace 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.
More detailsCuratorSpace 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.
More detailsCuratorSpace 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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