The Warehouse Residency
From 1st December 2018 - 29th April 2019, I ran The Warehouse Residency. The residency was established to provide much needed space to a fellow emerging artist during a period of increasing privatisation and financial insecurity. Over the period, Raphaella Pester and I worked side-by-side in my warehouse studio to produce new bodies of work.
The programme culminated in an exhibition, The Warehouse Show, and a visit from Firstsite Collectors' Group. The residency would also become an extended period to exchange ideas and approaches to making art, an extra-institutional art school environment in which learning was organic and there was no restriction or didacticism.
The period proved to be quite formative for us both, not just in terms of technique and influence, but also in terms of understanding the shared struggles of being an emerging artist today.
The programme culminated in an exhibition, The Warehouse Show, and a visit from Firstsite Collectors' Group. The residency would also become an extended period to exchange ideas and approaches to making art, an extra-institutional art school environment in which learning was organic and there was no restriction or didacticism.
The period proved to be quite formative for us both, not just in terms of technique and influence, but also in terms of understanding the shared struggles of being an emerging artist today.
Raphaella Pester's body of work from the residency
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