Art Space Portsmouth International Artist's Residency
The 2009 residency has been awarded to Frauke Materlik (Germany).
The three-month Art Space Portsmouth International Artist's Residency is aimed at emerging fine artists with some experience of professional practice who may have had limited exposure in the UK and whose work is engaged with contemporary debate within the international art world.
Frauke will arrive in September 2009. Please follow her journey here:
Packing, finding storage space, leaving my studio. It's been a fantastic autumn, and I'm already looking forward to coming back next year. The next months I'll be busy preparing for my show with Aspex. I'm excited!
My work looks so different according to whether day or night - therefore here some photos from diferent times of the day and evening.
Projection from my studio onto the wall next door, visible from the street as well as from inside the building- greeting the visitors as they come along..
The first impression when coming up the stairs; I opened the little door to the studio. Some members from Art Space, who have known the building for several years, had never noticed this door before - the space looks different seen from different positions.
Here the first photos from the show, and there are more to come.
My models - like threedimensional sketches, and their shadows.
The structure inside my studio, and to the left the reflection of the projection on the wall outside (the window functions as a mirror, very convenient). Losing a sense of depth, lines connecting and intersecting, in the pile of windows as well as in the wooden structure.
The photographic recordings after my time here, from all the 'white areas', the blank spaces on the map, that I went to over the last weeks. 36 images showing the coastline, or the borders making it impossible to get to the water. To the left my latex piece from underneath Southsea pier. It was quite popular on friday night, people sniffing and touching it; it's very soft and got sand enclosed in it, and traces of rust as well. Had a difficult time getting the light right, some bulbs make it appear almost pink, in daylight it looks yellowish-white, and that is how I prefer it.
The International Residency programme is generously funded though Arts Council England and Art Space Portsmouth. Our project partners are aspex and the University of Portsmouth.
Art Space Portsmouth was originally founded in 1980 by a small group of graduates and lecturers from Portsmouth Polytechnic, it is now a thriving group of 45 professional artists of which 31 have studios in our converted Chapel in Brougham Road. The management of the building and our activities are overseen by a board of trustees and a part time studio-coordinator with the membership taking an active role in initiating and managing Art Space projects.
The three-month Art Space Portsmouth International Artist's Residency is in its third year and is aimed at emerging fine artists with some experience of professional practice who may have had limited exposure in the UK and whose work is engaged with contemporary debate within the international art world.