Shallal
Inclusive arts charity Shallal is happy to be returning to Back Lane West for the fifth year running for their annual October combined arts residency. This year the residency has Arts Council England funding to work with local community groups and a wide range of artists, widening awareness of their new inclusive visual art studio at Krowji creative hub.
The themes for 2019 are; 3D, working bigger in paint, electronic music, puppetry, animation, lighting design and illustrating Shallal’s new poetry anthology. Artists will research and develop new ideas often in collaboration with others, and in new mediums.
The residency will conclude with a sharing on 31st October, to which all are welcome.
To get involved contact Lou on shallalstudios@gmail.com and follow our progress through the month on Instagram at shallalarts and Twitter @ShallalStudios.
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Sophie Blagden
The Bottle Trap – Sophie Blagden
Sophie is an artist and facilitator, whose practice includes sound, print, sculpture and costume.
Her works often reference places on the edge of a city, tucked in by green belts and infrastructure that is pushed outwards: ring roads, waste facilities, nature reserves. During her September residency at Back Lane West Sophie will be researching the Great Crested Newt as a symbol of slowness and resistance.
On Thursday 26th September, from 17.30, we gathered for pond slime cocktails and an informal reading of The Bottle Trap, a radio play developed by Sophie Blagden during her time at Back Lane West.
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Sharon Kelly
Sharon Kelly : August, mini residency
Sharon’s practice gravitates around drawing and her interest spans the intersections between art / life; art / health and art / sport. Much of her work takes its generative force from personal experience and in recent years she has explored the parallels between running and drawing (creative force and process).
During her short residency Sharon welcomed the opportunity to return to the West Country taking time to reflect on life’s passage and notions of ‘revisiting’.
For more information on Sharon’s practice visit sharonkellyartist.com
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