CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #29
The CuratorSpace Artist Bursary is a quarterly award to support contemporary artists to develop their practice. The artists selected for CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #29 are Henry Cottam, Ngo Chun Tse, Tom Fairlamb, and Maija Liepins. Their projects span photography, video installation, sculpture, and drawing.
Henry Cottam's practice explores Scunthorpe's steel industry & history, through methods of documentation, excavation, archiving & material investigation. He uses a wide range of mediums, from cutting edge technologies such as 3D scanning, modelling and printing to traditional methods of image making and sculptural production. His project, Printing Steel, responds to archival material and photographic slides from North Lincolnshire Museum, which document key aspects of the steel making process.
Ngo Chun Tse is a Hong Kong born artist-curator-writer living and working in London. His practice works with moving image, text, installation, and lecture performance, critically engaging with the historiography of decolonisation, the production of technological and cinematic images, and the hauntology of diasporic experience. He will undertake research and experimentation towards developing his moving image installation, Road Movie(s), that reimagines the language of the road movie through the lens of migration, restriction, and East and Southeast Asian identity.
Tom Fairlamb makes moving sculptural installations that are playful, tragic and humorous. He uses technology to show cycles, systems and processes, while interweaving political and environmental issues, especially the relationships and boundaries between the living world, human societies, and technology. They will use the bursary to produce new works, using everyday objects such as mousetraps and fishing hooks, to explore sculpture as a durational and responsive process.
Maija Liepin explores the emotional, imaginative, and soulful experience of embodied life through writing, moving images, and drawings. Her drawings map an emergent personal mythology, while her participatory experiential art projects open space for co-creative dialogue and collective reflection. The digital archive, Process Seed Library, expands on their previous Arts Council England-funded project Dialogues for the Future to explore anarchival art publishing as a process of stimulating further response and dialogue.
You can find out more about the CuratorSpace Artist Bursary and how to apply at bursary.curatorspace.com.
Image credit: Henry Cottam, Deformation Scan, photograph of a 3D model, 2023.
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