Freelands Foundation Talk

Banner image: Rosalind Nashashibi, A Drop of Scent, 2020 (detail). Courtesy of the Artist and GRIMM Amsterdam | New York | London. Copyright the Artist.

Talk – The Studio as a Site of Community and Collective Action

Freelands Foundation, 7 December 2022 18:30

With Dr Charlotte Bonham-Carter, Dyana Gravina, Jane Morrow and Rosalind Nashashibi.


For many artists, the studio is the essential site of artistic production. And yet, in the UK, these spaces are under-funded and under-recognised, contributing to instability and inequality in the sector. This event will examine the importance of the studio both in supporting practice but also as an enabler of community and collective action. In particular, the event questions whether studios are accessible spaces, and the role they might play in contributing to a diverse and inclusive art world.

This talk is programmed alongside the Freelands Foundation’s annual research commission, ‘The Representation of Women Artists in the UK in 2021’ . 

Panellists: Dyana Gravina (Founder and Creative Director, Procreate Projects); Jane Morrow (independent curator and writer); Rosalind Nashashibi (artist). Moderated by Dr Charlotte Bonham-Carter (author of ‘The Representation of Women Artists in the UK in 2021’). The event will be followed by an audience Q&A.

This event will take place at 113 Regent’s Park Road. Reserve your free place at this link.
Please arrive at the gallery 15 minutes before the event starts.The event will be BSL interpreted. The event will be recorded, subtitled and made available to watch on our website.

Biographies
Dr. Charlotte Bonham-Carter is Head of International Partnerships at Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon Colleges, where she oversees international relationships across the three colleges. She also maintains a practice as an independent curator, writer and researcher, often working at the intersection of higher education and the arts. Prior to entering academia, Charlotte held curatorial positions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Barbican Art Gallery, Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA) and Art on the Underground. She is the co-author of The Contemporary Art Book(Goodman, 2009 and 2011) and Contemporary Art: The Essential Guide to 200 Groundbreaking Artists (2013) and co-editor of Social Value, Rhetoric and the Arts (Palgrave, 2017). She holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London and a PhD in Cultural Policy and Management from City University, London.

Dyana Gravina (She/They) is an independent curator, birth doula, activist and community builder, a mover and performance artist. Currently MA in Gender Sexuality and Culture at Birkbeck University. Dyana is the founding and creative director of Procreate Project, a visionary-pioneering arts organisation supporting womxn and non-binary artists who are (m)others. Working towards systemic change across socio cultural sectors, one of the platforms created under PCP is the Mother House Studios, the first and only artists’ studio model with integrated childcare, where the children are welcome into the work-space.Currently MA in ‘Gender Sexuality and Culture’ at Birkbeck University. They have collaborated and curated projects with partners and venues including RCA, King’s College London, LADA Live Art Development Agency, Ugly Duck, Mimosa House, Women’s Art Library, RichMix, Richard Saltoun Gallery, 198 contemporary Art and Learning, to mention a few. Her performance actions and performative lectures have been shown and hosted in the UK and internationally including, Artist Association Israel, East Street Arts, Wellcome Collection, ]Performance Space[, Leyden Gallery, The Yard Theatre, Institute Centre of Photography ICP ( NYC), Art Basel / Richard Saltoun Gallery, Minusoffspace (Vienna), Menoparkas Gallery (Kaunas), Gruentaler9 (Berlin).

Jane Morrow is an independent visual art curator, writer and PhD researcher with a specialism in artist development. She is interested in infrastructure for artists, working across network and production contexts, and through creating formal and informal developmental platforms for practitioners. Resourcing, nurturing, and profiling others’ practices has been a long-standing facet of her approach. Jane’s practice-led PhD research focuses on the precarity of artists’ studios and workspaces; labour and practice, collaborative and co-operative models, and permanence and peripateticism. She has held strategic, programming, fundraising and artist development roles for galleries, initiatives and individuals around the UK and Ireland.Her writing has been commissioned by national arts press and featured in peer-reviewed journals. She is the Secretary of the International Association of Art Critics (Ireland) and is on the board of directors at University of Atypical. Jane also occasionally teaches on undergraduate courses at Belfast School of Art, and on the postgraduate course in Arts Management at Queen’s University.

Rosalind Nashashibi is a London-based filmmaker and painter of Palestinian and Northern Irish heritage. Her films use both documentary and speculative languages, where observations from her own life and the world around her are merged with paintings, fictional or sci-fi elements; often to propose models of collective living. Her paintings likewise operate on another level of subjective experience, they frame arenas or pools of potential where people or animals may appear, often sharing the picture plane with their own context of signs and apparitions.Nashashibi has exhibited in Documenta 14, Manifesta 7, the Nordic Triennial, and Sharjah X, She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2017 and won Beck’s Futures prize in 2003. She represented Scotland in the 52nd Venice Biennial. Her most recent solo shows include Carré d’Art Nimes, CAC Vilnius, Vienna Secession, CAAC Seville, Chicago Art Institute and Kunstinstuut Melly, Rotterdam. She was National Gallery artist in residence 2020.