CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #31
The CuratorSpace Artist Bursary is a quarterly award to support contemporary artists to develop their practice. The artists selected for CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #31 are Emma Bolland, Lucy Mulholland, Maybelle Peters, Cameron Lings, and Blandine Martin. Their projects span sculpture, performance, light, 3D scanning, film, and sound.
Emma Bolland creates interdisciplinary work across sculpture, drawing, installation, and writing, using visual abstraction as a speculative, sci‑fi method. Drawing on Constructivism, Theosophy, science fiction, and astronomy, they work with minerals and metal ores that suggest both material and metaphysical properties. Emma’s current project, ‘Glitch Semaphore’, is a sculpture‑as‑performance that reimagines semaphore as a form of ‘glitch’ communication using hand‑held sculptural objects made from conductive and magnetic materials. Through gestural, material, and psychic transmissions, the work repositions a magic-circle intersection of paths in Woodhouse Moor in Leeds as a node in an interstellar network of fantastical communications.
Lucy Mulholland’s sculptural work explores gestures of care and reassurance that become excessive or dysfunctional in moments of ecological uncertainty. Focusing on wolf/dog figures, her work examines tensions between domesticity and wildness, addressing relationships between humans and the more‑than‑human world. To develop her practice she will integrate 3D scanning, modelling, and resin printing into her ceramic practice, enabling her to move between digital and physical forms and produce more complex structures.
Maybelle Peters’ moving image work uses found film footage and archival material to reflect on the ecological effects of industrialisation. Drawing on local history, she combines the mechanical recording of film with handmade animation, emphasising manual labour as a way to connect automated efficiency with time‑consuming, human‑led processes. She is currently establishing a method for working with the materiality and fragility of film, while developing practical knowledge around its safe handling.
Cameron Lings builds on his data‑driven practice to create sculpture through translating statistical information into 3D form. His project ‘A Monument to Light’ is a freestanding semi‑transparent sculpture, with internally programmable, animated LED lighting. The work captures wavelength frequencies within the visual spectrum to celebrate our scientific understanding of light. As such, light operates as both medium and subject, blending art, science, and mathematics.
Blandine Martin’s practice centres on memory, emotion, loss, and the fragmented nature of personal and collective history. Working primarily in textiles and soft sculpture, she creates layered, tactile forms that evoke landscapes of the body and mind. Through the use of salvaged fabrics, discarded objects, and stitching techniques, she transforms domestic and overlooked materials into sculptural narratives that speak of resilience, belonging, and remembrance. Through the Stephen Swindells Residency, she will expand her current practice to incorporate sound and process-based experimentation, creating a portfolio of new site-specific work for exhibition.
Image credit: Maybelle Peters, Attention, Absorption, installation from solo exhibition at Primary, Nottingham 2022
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