LIGHTING UP LEICESTERWITH CREATIVE TALENTFROM ACROSS THE UKwww.ukyoungartists.co.uk

Friday 7 – Sunday 9 November ALL EVENTS ARE FREE

About the UK Young Artists Leicester Festival 2014

Three days of exhibitions, performances, workshops and masterclasses

Welcome to the UK Young Artists Leicester Festival 2014, our third event in the Midlands, showcasing the best of the country’s creative talent. The Leicester Festival’s rich and varied programme will again highlight the extraordinary diversity and quality of the creative arts in the UK today. The programme, the expanded workshop offer and additional creative networking opportunities will build on the success of our previous events in Derby and Nottingham. A recent report stated that the creative industries contribute significantly to the UK economy, with almost a third of those involved being self-employed with the need for continuing support. UK Young Artists recognises the need to encourage and foster this expanding part of the economy by providing training, performance opportunities and exhibitions across art forms and practices. Our Leicester Festival gives you the opportunity to encountera select group of these talented practitioners andbe able to say, as they gain national and international prominence, that you saw them first in Leicester!

Congratulations and thank you to all those selected. I hope the festival fosters collaboration, debate and celebration of the creative arts and its diverse activities and practitioners. Thank you also to our selection panel, De Montfort University and the other partners and venues across the city who have helped to make the festival possible. Enjoy the festival!

Terry Shave, Chair of UK Young Artists

www.ukyoungartists.co.uk

Anna Williams

Anna is an award-winning dancer and choreographer based in the UK. She’s worked as a performer and maker in dance, theatre, opera and live art for over twenty years. She was a dancer and soloist with the Russell Maliphant Dance Company and has danced with Random Dance Company, Aletta Collins, Carol Brown Dances, New Art Club and Nik Haffner. She’s currently the rehearsal director for Vincent Dance Theatre and has just been made an Associate Artist at Dance East starting April 2015.

Mandy Barker

Mandy’s artistic direction has evolved from graphic design to contemporary photography. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including The Photographer’s Gallery, The Mall and Cork Street Galleries in London, The Science & Technology Park, Hong Kong, and The Anchorage Museum, Alaska.

Marcus Coates

Through performance and film Marcus Coates takes his audiences on a dark and humorous journey in an attempt to explore the full potential of imagination, while simultaneously questioning the artist’s role within society. Marcus has an extensive knowledge and understanding of British birds and mammals and continually draws parallels to examine how we perceive human-ness through imagined non-human realities. These ornithological observations have led him to develop a unique method of interpreting the natural world and its evolving relationship with society.

Tom Roden - New Art Club

Tom formed New Art Club with Pete Shenton in 2001. Roden and Shenton are co-artistic directors and choreograph their own work, whilst often integratingother performers and performing collaboratively with other groups. Their influences include Mark Whitelaw, Graeme Miller, DV8, Merce Cunningham and Reeves and Mortimer. They have toured across the UK, including performances at the Dundee Repertory Theatre, the Soho Theatre, London and the Liverpool Playhouse, and have also taken their work to Australia, China, the United States and Europe.

UK Young Artists Ambassadors—

Time Artform / Activity Event Venue9am - 6.30pm Visual Art Cove Silver Arcade ground floor9am - 6.30pm Visual Art Spilled Screen Silver Arcade first floor9am - 6.30pm Visual Art Toposcope Silver Arcade third floor9am - 6.30pm Moving Image The Individual’s Pursuit Silver Arcade third floor10am - 12.30pm Moving Image Mother, I am Going PACE Building (DMU) Studio 210am - 1pm Masterclass Being Present: Live Art Masterclass PACE Building (DMU) Studio 310am - 4pm Workshop PrintLab LCB Depot Café10am – 5pm Applied Arts Silver, Wax and Ceramic works New Walk Museum & Art Gallery10am - 6pm Visual Art Vacant Lot Embrace Arts10am - 6pm Moving Image bioFlaneur Embrace Arts10am - 6.30pm Visual Art Brick Cloud Two Queens10am - 6.30pm Moving Image Stay tuned… Two Queens10.30am - 11.30am Talk Words from the Street: Working as an Artist in the Community Two Queens 11.30am - 12.10pm Performance Katherine Hall - Fill in the ______ New Walk Gallery12pm - 6.30pm Moving Image Three works Two Queens1pm - 1.30pm Literature Jo Kelen - Animal Antics New Walk Café2pm - 3pm Talk Artist Talk - Nadim Chaudry The Exchange2pm - 4pm Masterclass Avoiding Writer’s Block: Poetry Masterclass PACE Building (DMU) Studio 42pm - 4pm Masterclass Expanding Choreographic Practice Masterclass PACE Building (DMU) Studio 32pm - 5pm Moving Image Mother, I am Going PACE Building (DMU) Studio 23pm - 3.45pm Literature Clare Sita Fisher - Write Where You Are New Walk Café4pm - 5pm Music The Hermes Experiment - Psychological tales New Walk Museum & Art Gallery5.30pm - 6.30pm Performance Dance Triple Bill PACE Building (DMU) Studio 18pm - 9.10pm Performance Madeline Shann - Little Terrors Upstairs at The Western10pm - 11pm Music Thomasthinks – Plynth The Lansdowne

Saturday 8 November

Time Artform / Activity Event Venue10am - 6.30pm Visual Art Brick Cloud Two Queens10am - 6.30pm Moving Image Three works Two Queens10am - 6.30pm Moving Image Stay tuned… Two Queens10.30am - 12:30pm Talk Artist-Led Spaces and Accessing Opportunities Embrace Arts Studio 110.30am - 4pm Visual Art Cove Silver Arcade ground floor10.30am - 4pm Visual Art Spilled Screen Silver Arcade first floor10.30am - 4pm Visual Art Toposcope Silver Arcade third floor10.30am - 4pm Moving Image The Individual’s Pursuit Silver Arcade third floor10am - 6pm Visual Art Vacant Lot Embrace Arts10am - 6pm Moving Image bioFlaneur Embrace Arts11am - 11.45am Performance Katherine Hall - Fill in the ______ PACE Building (DMU) Studio 411am – 5pm Applied Arts Silver, Wax and Ceramic works New Walk Museum & Art Gallery12pm - 3pm Moving Image Mother, I am Going PACE Building (DMU) Studio 212.15pm - 1pm Music Gurdain Singh Rayatt - Flashy Fingers New Walk Museum & Art Gallery1pm - 1.30pm Literature Jo Kelen - Animal Antics Upstairs At The Western1pm - 1.45pm Literature Clare Sita Fisher - Write Where You Are New Walk Cafe2pm - 3pm Music The Hermes Experiment - Psychological tales Upstairs at The Western

Sunday 9 November

Time Artform / Activity Event Venue9am - 6.30pm Visual Art Cove Silver Arcade ground floor9am - 6.30pm Visual Art Spilled Screen Silver Arcade first floor9am - 6.30pm Visual Art Toposcope Silver Arcade third floor9am - 6.30pm Moving Image The Individual’s Pursuit Silver Arcade third floor9.15am - 6pm Visual Art Vacant Lot Embrace Arts9.15am - 6pm Moving Image bioFlaneur Embrace Arts10am - 4pm Workshop PrintLab LCB Depot Café10am – 5pm Applied Arts Silver, Wax and Ceramic works New Walk Museum & Art Gallery10am - 6.30pm Visual Art Brick Cloud Two Queens10am - 6.30pm Moving Image Three works Two Queens10am - 6.30pm Moving Image Stay tuned… Two Queens10.30am - 12.30pm Talk Meet the Programmers Embrace Arts Studio 110.30am - 12.30pm Masterclass Exploring the Swarm: Practical Masterclass Embrace Arts Studio 32pm - 4pm Masterclass International Producing and Touring Masterclass Embrace Arts Studio 12pm - 5pm Moving Image Mother, I am Going PACE Building (DMU) Studio 25pm - 6.10pm Performance Impulse Collective - The Canterbury Tales Embrace Arts – Main Hall5.30pm - 6pm Performance Joe Snape - Lärmlicht #5 PACE Building (DMU) Studio 16.30pm - 7.15pm Music Gurdain Singh Rayatt - Flashy Fingers Embrace Arts Main Hall8pm - 9pm Performance Needless Alley - In Embryo The Y Theatre9.30pm - 10pm Performance Joe Snape - Lärmlicht #5 PACE Building (DMU) Studio 1

Friday 7 November

Programme

Applied Arts Moving Image

Maria AbbottStay Tuned…

Fake commercials that advertise bizarre beauty products, custom made by the artist, that promise to enhance a woman’s life.

Sandra FruebingThe Individual’s Pursuit

The creation of a narrative based on a character whose quest is to inhabit an in-between space as an exploration of what is beyond the obvious. The story of the individual’s pursuit challenges common sense and discusses the idea of the in-between space and borders.

Literature

Eluned Glyn CeramicsMinimus Maximus

Slip-casted earthenware ceramics created by re-constructing existing vessels from charity shops. The pieces are deconstructed and re-built into a solid form. The piece is used as a master copy which is then moulded in pottery plaster, cast in slip and fired up to five times.

New Walk Museum & Art Gallery

Caitlin Webb-EllisMother, I am Going

Artist-filmmaker working across video, installation, writing and performance. Recent work investigates memory and distance, the viewer’s position and the problem of representation.

2pm - 5pm Friday 10am - 12.30pm & 2pm - 5pm Saturday 12pm - 3pm SundayPACE Building (DMU)

Clare Sita FisherWrite Where You Are

Clare is our UK Young Artists Festival Writer in Residence. She’ll be writing and performing new work inspired by other artists’ work at the festival.

3pm Saturday 1pm SundayNew Walk Museum & Gallery

Jodie HatcherA series of woven sculptural vessels

Created through experimenting with different aspects of the process; the weave, form, scale and material. Each piece is created using thin strips of sheet metal woven together in geometric patterns, to create sheet material which is then shaped around a range of metal stakes and wooden formers, to create the desired form.

New Walk Museum & Art Gallery

Yasmin Falahat Night Walking

A collection of hand-sculpted 3D wax pieces spray-painted and scratched into, combined with areas of stitched thin monofilament.

New Walk Museum & Art Gallery

Aleks CichabioFlaneur

Aleks’ films superimpose recent biotechnological development and research onto the culture of consumerism. They challenge, provoke and speculate on the effects of specific scientific research on everyday life, social interaction and social behaviour.

Embrace ArtsSilver Arcade

Three Works

Three moving image works: a stop-motion animation, an archival film and a film of a hybrid between performance, installation and kinetic sculpture. Artists: Annlin Chao, Chun-yu Liu, Karolina Bielskyte

Two Queens

Two Queens

Dance Triple Bill

A programme of three works, one blending live response movement with digital documentary footage, a new production loosely based on a true story involving the politics of a country in a time of corruption, death feuds and gangs, and a piece that scratches the surface of poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.Artists: SoulUrge5, What Is Written, Rachel Burn.

Madeline ShannLittle Terrors

A dance theatre lecture, Little Terrors uses movement, storytelling, experimental sound design and any other means necessary to explain why life is terrifying.

Katherine HallFill in the ______

A troubling yet ordinary lecture of nonsense, playing on the oddities of managing time and the fragility of relationships.

Joe SnapeLärmlicht #5

Joe uses odd instruments, found objects and electricity to make unusual musical performances.

Jo Kelen Animal Antics

A compilation of some of Jo’s favourite poems and some of her most recent in an entertaining and light-hearted show.

Gurdain Singh Rayatt Flashy Fingers

6.30pm Friday, Embrace Arts12.15pm Sunday, New Walk Museum & Art Gallery

10pm Saturday, The Lansdowne

Professional tabla player with a performance that is authentic to the art form yet captivating for rhythm lovers and all audiences featuring rhythmic complexities, dramatic compositions, punchy grooves and harmonic delivery. Tabla reimagined! 

Music

thomasthinks Plynth

An audio-visual performance featuring live instrumentation and spontaneously generated visuals. Each of the participants are artists within their own right and will be coming together to create something extraordinary, creating an uplifting ambience of spontaneity, delicate sonics and poetic expression, blurring the boundaries between sonic and visual arts. Artists: David Hepple - Guitar, Glen Hicks - Bass, Tom Harris - Beats, Keys, Voice and Will Pettipher - Visuals and Saxophone.

Needless AlleyIn Embryo

A new and multidisciplinary performance integrating the talents of seven artists.

The Hermes ExperimentPsychological tales

An exploration of psychological states through the ages using contemporary music from a quartet who perform diverse experimental compositions and arrangements while venturing into live free improvisation.

Performance

1pm Saturday, New Walk Museum & Art Gallery1pm Sunday, Upstairs at The Western

4pm Saturday, New Walk Museum & Art Gallery2pm Sunday, Upstairs at The Western

5.30pm Saturday, PACE Building (DMU)

5.30pm & 9.30pm Friday PACE Building (DMU) 8pm Friday, The Y Theatre

11.30am Saturday, New Walk Museum & Art Gallery11am Sunday, PACE Building (DMU)

8pm Saturday, Upstairs at The Western

Toposcope

Work exploring movement within and around spaces both geographical and psychological, examining the human desire for movement, exploration and the building of tools to navigate with and inhabit.Artists: Alexander Wallis, David Langham, Gina Soden, Oliver Quinn, Sandra Fruebing, Susannah Stark

Impulse CollectiveThe Canterbury Tales

Following their smash hit Exposed at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival, this young East Midlands based company present their anarchic new take on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

Vacant Lot

Works from artists exploring the relationship between society and the individual, examining consumerism, technologically augmented and heightened hyper-realities, and the production of objects both mass produced and obsessively crafted.Artists: Anna White, Beth Kane, Joshua Green, Olivier Marc Thomas Leger, Sam Laughlin

Brick Cloud

Works from artists exploring pattern, surface and man-made forms, working in a space between where painting ends and sculpture begins. Artists: Beth Shapeero, Daniel Cave, Jo Willoughby, Leonie Brandner, Sam Laughlin, Se Rin Park, Tess Williams

Full programme details and ticket links for performances can be found at www.ukyoungartists.co.uk

5pm Friday, Embrace Arts

Alexander DuncanCove

Over 10,000 pieces of collected polyurethane and polystyrene foam make up this work that explores the idea of the unknown in life and art.

Visual Arts

Silver Arcade

Silver Arcade

Embrace Arts

Spilled Screen

Works from three painters working with methods of deconstruction, abstraction and fragmentation. Artists: Alberto Condotta, Daniel Bourke, Loz Atkinson

Silver Arcade

Two Queens

Venue Listings

New Walk Museum & Art Gallery

Leicester’s original museum has wide ranging collections and displays spanning the natural and cultural world.

53 New Walk, Leicester, LE1 7EA0116 225 4900 / www.leicester.gov.uk/museums

Silver Arcade

One of only two arcades in the UK that are four storeys high this 19th century building is in the heart of Leicester’s city centre. Fully refurbished and re-opened to the public in 2013 it has won four conservation and development awards for the retaining of the arcade’s many original features whilst being fully modernised; bringing the building into the 21st century.

Silver Arcade, Silver Street, Leicester, LE1 5FA0116 253 8159 / www.thesilverarcade.com

LCB Depot

A creative hub at the heart of Leicester’s Cultural Quarter providing a wide range of services to the creative industries in Leicester to help them flourish.

31 Rutland St, Leicester, LE1 1RE0116 261 6800 / www.lcbdepot.co.uk

Embrace Arts

To be embraced and respected locally, regionally and nationally as an arts centre, welcoming audiences and artists to share in pioneering visual and performing arts inclusively.

Richard Attenborough centreLancaster Road, Leicester, LE1 7HA0116 252 2455 / www.embracearts.co.uk

De Montfort University - PACE Building

The Performance Arts Centre of Excellence (PACE) is part of the School of Arts at De Montfort University, a school that encompasses performance arts, visual arts and arts management courses, offering undergraduate and postgraduate study that encourages a cutting-edge approach to contemporary practice together with strong academic critical enquiry and analysis.

Richmond Street, Leicester, LE2 7BQ www.dmu.ac.uk

Upstairs at The Western

Leicester’s first pub theatre programming brave, inspiring and engaging performances in Leicester’s West End.

The Western Pub70 Western Road, Leicester, LE3 0GAwww.upstairsatthewestern.com

Two Queens

An artist led gallery and studio complex situated in Leicester’s Cultural Quarter.

2 Queen Street, Leicester, LE1 1QWwww.2queens.com

The Y Theatre

Built in 1900, The Y is the oldest surviving theatre in Leicester. A bustling live performance venue with an eclectic programme including music, comedy, theatre, new work and spoken word. 7 East Street, Leicester, LE1 6EY0116 255 7066 / www.ytheatre.co.uk

The Exchange

At the centre of Leicester’s Cultural Quarter since 2011. Host to comedy, bands, themed nights, weddings, birthdays, launch events, christenings and book clubs. Open all hours from breakfast (8.30am weekdays), through lunch, to early evening drinks then pre theatre, pre club, party venue (1am on the weekend).

50 Rutland Street, Cultural Quarter, Leicester LE1 1RD0116 251 3434 / www.exchangeleicester.com

The Landsdowne

Visit The Lansdowne on London Road for an experience a little out of the ordinary. Serving up premium cocktails, beers and delicious food day and night in a relaxed and comfortable environment.

123 London Road, Leicester, LE2 0QT0116 285 4131 / www.orangetree.co.uk/thelansdowne

Map

Key

1. De Montfort University PACE Building2. Embrace Arts3. LCB Depot4. New Walk Museum & Art Gallery 5. Silver Arcade

6. The Exchange7. The Landsdowne8. The Y Theatre9. Two Queens10. Upstairs at The Western

De Montfort University Parks Cultural Quarter Train Station

Workshop Programme

As part of the festival programme, UK Young Artists has teamed up with IdeasTap to curate a special programme of events including practical workshops, performances and masterclasses.

Meet the Programmers Fri 7 Nov, 10.30am - 12.30pm, Embrace Arts, Studio 1

With Fergus Evans (freelance producer), Natalie Ibu (In Good Company) and Francesca Waite (The Lowry). An informal panel discussion looking at development programmes available to artists and the best ways to access them. The session will cover the best ways to network and present yourself and your work as well as providing an opportunity for you to ask the panel of programmers and producers about their experiences and ask for advice.

Exploring the Swarm Practical Masterclass with Anna Collette HuntFri 7 Nov, 10.30am - 12.30pm, Embrace Arts, Studio 3

Join Anna Collette Hunt for an introduction to hand modelling and basic clay joining skills. Participants will be given the opportunity to create a mini swarm using Anna’s moulds and a bit of imagination.

An intensive, body-based workshop delivered by live art performance company Deux Oiseaux based on their mutual, body based live art practice. The workshop will require you to bring with you a level of integrity; a commitment to yourself, to others, and especially to your practice. It’s open to performers from all disciplines, as the exercises and techniques can be applied to all performing arts practices which utilise the body.

Being Present Live Art Masterclass with Deux Oiseaux (Natalie Raven and Joanna Partridge)Sat 8 Nov 10am - 1pm, PACE Building (DMU), Studio 3

International Producing and Touring Masterclass with Joe BoneFri 7 Nov, 2pm - 4pm, Embrace Arts, Studio 1

Joe Bone will discuss how to make international theatre touring a viable means and cover ways in which artists may want to make their production internationally attractive.

Artist Talk – Nadim Chaudry Sat 8 Nov, 2pm - 3pm, The Exchange

Nadim will talk about his career as a practising visual artist. He’ll cover his background and education, finding the right studio space and how he now works within this space. Nadim will also talk about securing his first solo shows and his recent commissions. Then it’s over to the audience for a short Q&A.

Expanding Choreographic Practice Masterclass with Antje HildebrandtSat 8 Nov, 2pm - 4pm, PACE Building (DMU), Studio 3

This workshop will explore a variety of ways through which to approach choreography. It will look at creative strategies, processes, tools and methods for making performance as well as improvisation, scoring, games and task based structures for creating choreographic work.

Avoiding Writer’s Block Poetry Masterclass with Deborah StevensonSat 8 Nov, 2pm - 4pm, PACE Building (DMU), Studio 4

Write and share 20 poems whilst nurturing the right questions to help you and your poetry get to where it needs to go. Explore the importance of verbs, nouns, writing, sharing and letting loose your inhibitions when it comes to getting your writing out there and using your writing as a means of learning about yourself.

Artist-led Spaces & Accessing OpportunitiesSun 9 Nov, 10.30am - 12.30pm, Embrace Arts, Studio 1

With Michelle Bowen (Primary), Beth Shapeero (founding member of Backlit) and Dan Kelly (Two Queens)This panel discussion will cover how some of the artistled spaces in the East Midlands were set-up and how they currently run. We will also cover opportunities available through these spaces and how best to access them. This will be followed by a Q&A with the panel.

All events are free and bookable through the IdeasTap site: www.ideastap.com/spa

As part of the festival programme, UK Young Artists is offering an outreach programme of activity in conjunction with Writing East Midlands, Leicester Print Workshop and Pedestrian.

Leicester Print Workshop

Leicester Print Workshop promotes, sustains and advances fine art printmaking as a contemporary visual art form; as a craft; as a focus for exhibitions and commissions; in schools, with community groups, to artists and to the general public. The workshop makes a creative impression and a meaningful contribution to visual arts in the Midlands. Leicester Print Workshop was first established in 1986 and became a registered charity in 1993. It is an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation (NPO). —www.leicesterprintworkshop.com

Join local writer Mahsuda Snaith as she talks about her success as a published young artist and her experience working as a Writer in Residence at Kennedy House Homeless Shelter. How can working as an artist in the community benefit your work? How can a writer encourage new artists who don’t ordinarily have a voice?

In this lively talk Mahsuda will discuss the triumphs and pitfalls of working as an artist in the community and will read from her new novel inspired by the homeless community. This will be followed by a screening of What You Don’t See When You See Me, a short film with readings of residents’ work. The floor will then be open for a Q&A with lead writer Mahsuda Snaith, UK Young Artist and shadow writer Tom Harris and filmmaker Guy Jenkins. This project is part of the Writing East Midlands’ Write Here Residency Programme, presented in partnership with UK Young Artists and Pedestrian.

Words from the StreetWorking as an Artist in the CommunitySat 8 Nov, 10.30am - 11.30am at Two Queens

Pedestrian provides education and training to young people at risk and vulnerable adults; individuals whom are often socially excluded and from disadvantaged backgrounds. —www.pedestrian.info

Pedestrian

Writing East Midlands is the writer development agency for the region. Working in partnership with a broad range of cultural organisations including schools, universities, arts venues, museums, libraries, producers and local authorities to encourage relationships between writers and their communities. —www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk

Writing East Midlands

Aimed at creative practitioners, the printlab gives you the opportunity to learn about printmaking, test and explore the possibilities of the medium in relation to your art practice and contribute to our collaborative printed zine whether you are a practicing artist or not. The zine will evolve throughout UK Young Artists Leicester Festival.

printlab with Leicester Print Workshop Fri 7 & Sat 8 Nov, 10am - 4pm (sign up for a 90 minute slot) at LCB Depot

All events are free!

Applied Arts

Eluned Glyn CeramicsIntrigued by the marriage of form and function, and the distortion of the domestic object; familiar yet foreign in form, Eluned Glyn Ceramics takes existing vessels from charity shops and re-constructs their forms.www.elunedglyn.com Jodie HatcherA designer-maker inspired by architecture and forms found in nature Jodie specialises in woven metalwork. She explores how far she can push the material to create her desired form. www.jodiehatcher.co.uk

Yasmin FalahatYasmin specialises in mixed media, creating textural, sculptural pieces using a range of materials. She has recently graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design, studying for a BA in Textile Design. www.yasminfalahat.com

Literature

Clare Sita FisherClare’s recent work includes an interactive story-telling installation for Leeds Light Night 2014, for which she was selected as a SHINE Emerging Artist. Her short fiction has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies and in 2013 she won the Spread the Word Writing Prize and the Cinnamon Press Writing Prize for her short fiction. www.claresitafisher.com

Jo KelenJo has been writing poetry for as long as she can remember and has recently started performing. She’s performed in venues across Nottingham and this summer at the Strawberry Fields Festival in Leicestershire as a member of the Mouthy Poets collective.

Moving Image

Annlin ChaoAnnlin’s work includes animation, illustration and installation. She’s passionate about using new materials, experimental techniques and the magic of stop motion. Graduated from Royal College of Art, London, in 2014.www.annlinchao.com

Aleks CichaAleks explores architecture through film, photography and product design. Her design work begins with scientific fact and, informed by everyday social observation, is elaborated in theauthor’s imagination.www.aleksandracicha.com

Caitlin Webb-EllisAn artist-filmmaker working across video, installation, writing and performance. Caitlin’s recent work investigates memory and distance, the position of the viewer and the problem of representation.www.webb-ellis.org

Chun-yu Liu Born in Taiwan and currently studying for her MFA at Wimbledon College of Art, Chun-yu trained as an abstract painter before using moving image as her medium. Her work explores identity, migration, narrative, and fantasy.

Karolina BielskyteAn interdisciplinary artist experienced in design for theatre, performance, exhibition and film. Bewitched by space, its law and mystery, Karolina’s interested in creating magic spatial environments that allow and evoke particular experiences for the audience, performers and for herself.karbielskyte.wix.com/portfolio

Maria AbbottMaria has screened her video art at film festivals including Beacons Festival in Skipton, Whitley Bay Film Festival, Northern Stage Newcastle Arts and Music Festival in Newcastle and CAAPO Public Art Project ‘Formal Interference’ in Florence, Italy. maria-abbott-art.weebly.com

Sandra Fruebing Sandra’s work is concerned with the establishment of the self within today’s society. Her work involves research within the fields of film, literature and the ordinary social interaction.www.sandra-fruebing.de

Music

Gurdain Singh RayattProfessional tabla player, and disciple of maestro Pandit Shankar Ghosh, his father and his grandfather, Gurdain frequently performs tabla solos and has accompanied world-class musicians including Purbayan Chatterjee, Roopa Panesar and Soumik Datta. He’s performed at festivals including WOMAD (UK) and Saptak (India).www.gurdain.com

The Hermes ExperimentPassionate about contemporary and experimental music and dedicated to creating art that is innovative and unique. The quartet performs diverse experimental compositions and arrangements and ventures into live free improvisation. www.thehermesexperiment.com

thomasthinksTom collaborated with Czech composer Tomas Zeman on the jazz / hip-hop album Black Sheep. He founded Project S2di0; a creative project space and recording studio where he runs community projects and collaborates and records with Nottingham based artists and performers.www.thomasthinks.co.uk

Performance

Impulse Collective An emerging professional theatre company challenging the modern boundaries of theatre to create new and exciting work. The collective uses verbatim, comedy, autobiography and projection, in experimental ways. www.impulsecollective.co.uk

Joe SnapeUsing odd instruments, found objects and electricity to make unusual musical performances Joe has presented his work at numerous festivals and venues, including Melkweg (Amsterdam), ACUD Theater (Berlin), Wonder Site (Tokyo), and The Kitchen (New York City). joesna.pe

Katherine Hall Katherine’s choreographic work aims to capture unsustainable and unfinished moments of human experience and to consider the on-going nature of life’s oddities, know-hows and intimacies through performance. www.katherine-hall.com

Madeline Shann A theatre maker, choreographer and performer Madeline makes her own live work and film, mixing theatre, music, live art with dance styles including contemporary, breakdance and European folk. www.madelineshann.co.uk

Needless AlleyThe collective explores artistic bonds on stage and draws on influences from both Modernist and post-dramatic performance to create theatrical happenings through juxtapositions of, and collisions between, artistic practices.www.needlessalley.co.uk

What Is WrittenComprised of individuals from different training and style backgrounds yet connected by the journey of exploring the liberation of oneself through the medium of dance, pushing their extremities to create new movement vocabulary and innovative dance pieces.

Artists

Rachel Burn Rachel makes dances to connect people and her work is made from the stuff that makes up life, mundane or profound. Preferring to work with groups, and habitually with women, she loves shape, pattern and empathy. www.rachelburn.com

SoulUrge5Creating contemporary dance performance that focuses on installation work to challenge and engage audience perceptions.Their work explores contact, improvisation and ideas emanating from process versus performance.

Visual Arts

Alberto Condotta A fine art graduate, Alberto is currently working on practice-led PhD research on pattern superimposition. His work has been shown in the UK, North America and continental Europe.www.albertocondotta.com

Alexander DuncanCurrently studying for an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art and working primarily with sculpture, photography, sought objects, video and drawing. highertide.blogspot.co.uk

Alexander WallisAlexander’s practice focuses on disrupting the social conventions of a traditional gallery by exploring the communication between spectator and sculpture through tactility and movement. www.awwallis.co.uk

Anna WhitePhotographer with a passion for documenting the ‘everyday’, Anna is drawn to subjects that are personal to her and her community. Her work has been exhibited at Tate Britain and has featured in The Telegraph and The Big Issue. www.annawhite.net

Beth Kane Concentrating on the lives people lead, Bethany aims to reveal their narrative through photography by highlighting details within a particular environment. She has previously exhibited in Derby, Cologne, London and Birmingham.www.bethanykane.co.uk

Beth Shapeero Beth works with the physical aspects of painting and qualities of abstraction. She co-founded Nottingham’s Backlit Gallery and was awarded the ARHC Scholarship for the MLitt programme at The Glasgow School of Art. www.bethshapeero.com

Daniel BourkeDaniel explores how digital technologies have become intertwined with daily life. His paintings are a digital mash-up of photographs, code and gestural mark-making which he takes into oil paint. His work draws inspiration from glitch art, surrealism to abstract expressionism and the Dutch golden age.www.danielbourke.com

Daniel CaveObservation, personal rumination and the painting medium are essential elements within Daniel’s work. He has exhibited paintings and drawings in Nottingham and London. He’s currently working on a publication of selected drawings. www.danielcave.co.uk

David LanghamDavid’s practice is concerned with the relationship between humanity and its surroundings. Whilst encountering obvious physical environments, he aims to consider the social and cultural parameters which can also influence a person’s experience with a place or situation. www.david-langham.co.uk

Gina SodenAt the heart of Gina’s photography is a preoccupation with abandoned structures and locations. Travelling throughout Europe, she explores the boundaries of beauty, decay, nostalgia and neglect. Every image is a product of a journey, referring to the physical demands of gaining entry and to the passing of time.www.ginasoden.co.uk

Jo WilloughbyA mixed-media artist predominantly working with found and made objects, painting and drawing. Jo has a playful and experimental approach to materials often combining 2D and 3D works in small installations and assemblages. jowilloughby.tumblr.com

Joshua GreenJoshua works predominantly in oil paints, combining traditional values with contemporary ideas. His main interests lie within the importance of the everyday, place and portraiture. Joshuagreen.brushd.com

Leonie BrandnerLeonie’s practice revolves aroundquestions of identity, singularity andmultiplicity, solitude, fluidity, continuityand disruption, connection, separationand the on-going change through interaction.bleonie.wordpress.com

Loz AtkinsonLoz’s concept driven work has been depicted in paint, sculpture and digital media. She plays with perceptions of what is seen and not seen, using bold shape, line, colour and symbolism. www.lozatkinson.co.uk

Oliver QuinnOliver explores our relationship to immaterial space and our time spent participating within it using flat environments and intangible frameworks that allow the viewer to find lines of flight for the eye to wander through propositional spaces.

Olivier Marc Thomas LegerOlivier creates drawings of fantastic creatures and animals fabricated into worlds with thriving ecosystems and habitats. His work holds an overwhelming organic feel that pervades a feeling of living harmony. He was awarded the Attenborough Prize in 2014.www.olivierleger.co.uk

Sam LaughlinSam’s practice deals primarily with architecture, using it to engage with wider ideas often latently expressed in the structures we build. His work has been exhibited in Europe and North America and published internationally. www.samlaughlin.co.uk

Se Rin ParkSe Rin presents big landscapes using geometric ideas. The rhythm of painting is established through articulating echoing planes of colours. The use of line and colour moving between images connects to the outside world and pure abstraction.www.parkserin.com

Susannah StarkSusannah’s work is an on-going investigation into printmaking as a mode of knowledge production, formed by the historical and conceptual legacies of the printmaking process; dependency on procedure and repetition, ties to literature and to craft and use as a tool for dissemination, both politically and commercially. www.susannahstark.com

Tess WilliamsLarge-scale abstract painterworking within the boundaries oftraditional/deconstructed paintingand installation. Picking apart thetraditional stretcher/canvas basedmethod of painting creating workthat engages with the space it’s in.www.tessrachelwilliams.com

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