AIR

Following elections in 2011 the AIR Council now has two new members: Emily Speed and Annabel Tilley. They join the 11 existing members of the council, including new Chair, Sally Sheinman, and new Vice-Chair, Joseph Young.

CHAIR: SALLY SHEINMAN

An American who grew up on a dairy farm on the Canadian border Sally holds a BA from the State University of New York at Albany and undertook postgraduate studies at Hunter College, New York City. She worked on Wall Street after training as an artist. She has exhibited widely throughout Britain, producing touring exhibitions and temporary and permanent public commissions, working independently and in collaboration with organisations including Arts Council England, BBC and the NHS. Her work has featured on Radio 4 Women's Hour and PM. She has lived in Britain for the many years and works in Northampton. Although a painter, Sally's work pushes the practice of painting into new territories: it is often three-dimensional, has multiple components and relies on contributions of others to complete its meaning.


www.sallysheinman.co.uk

www.artsvps.com

VICE CHAIR: JOSEPH YOUNG

Brighton-based sound and performance artist. His practice is concerned with the sounds of the everyday, political language(s) and manifestos, agitation, junk emails and attitudes to technology. His work has been shown variously at Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, on BBC Radio 4, at Conflux Festival on Wall St, when he made a series of recordings and performances on the weekend of the Lehmann Brothers collapse. He regularly leads workshops in the community and schools, and has guest lectured for Edge Hill University, University of Brighton, Sussex University and the University of Essex. Joseph is a member of the Interpretation Team at the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill. He is the founder of The Neo-Futurist Collective - an artists' group dedicated to the exploration and celebration of urban noise.

www.josephyoung.co.uk


www.neofuturist.org

COUNCIL MEMBERS:

KATRIONA BEALES

Relocated to London in 2010 following nine years in the North West of England. Her work is deeply influenced by a migratory childhood  - questions of how to site and construct a sense of self underpin much of her visual arts practice. Between 2008-10 she was an in-house artist at the Bluecoat, Liverpool.  She is active in initiating artist-led projects including an international artist exchange between Linz, Austria and POST, Liverpool supported by the Arts Council England and others. She is currently working as an artist educator with Tate Britain's new Discursive Rooms programme. She commences a post-graduate diploma in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in January 2010.


www.katrionabeales.com

DAVID COTTERRELL

London-based artist and Professor in Fine Art and Leverhulme Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University. Over the past fifteen years, his work has been commissioned and exhibited extensively in Europe, North America and the Far East. He has been a consultant to strategic master plans, cultural and public art policy for urban regeneration, healthcare and growth areas. His research has been supported by national and regional government and by independent foundations and charities. A Fellow of the RSA, he was selected for Solar Associates Artists Leadership programme in 2009.


www.cotterrell.com

ROSALIND DAVIS

London-based mixed media painter creating paintings of dystopian landscapes which incorporate paint embroidery and floral-print. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in2005 she has exhibited nationally and internationally with work in private and public collections. In 2010 she was selected for the UKYA, ING Discerning Eye and Lynn Painters Stainers Prize. In 2009 she co-founded and launched Core Gallery, an artist-led space and community focal point. Achievements include a significant exhibition record ,  developing an artists career development programme,  creative workshops and a series of artists in dialogue events. She is a freelance lecturer and creative practitioner and a writer with commissioned articles in a-n Magazine, as well as an acclaimed blogger on a-n Artists talking.

www.rosalinddavis.co.uk

STEVE DUTTON

Yorkshire-based artist who works both individually and in various collaborations, most often as one half of Dutton and Swindells,he is  Professor of Contemporary Art Practice at the University of Lincoln and was a Director Of ArtSheffield from its inception until 2011, a Trustee of Coventry Artspace, and the founder of  Lanchester Gallery Projects ( LGP ) in Coventry. His practice encompasses all of these roles, and in particular the way that one element dovetails into and affects another. He has contributed as a writer to a-n Magazine and other publications including the Research paper: Biennials and city-wide events


www.steve-dutton.co.uk

ELPIDA HADZI-VASILEVA

Her practice encompasses of national and international site-specific commissions, fellowships and residences. She has developed a respected and high-quality reputation for producing ambitious and complex works in sculpture and installation. Since graduating from Royal College of Art in 1998, she has exhibited internationally including the 51st Venice Biennale ; Swiss Embassy and World Bank, Macedonia; L'H du Siege, France; Kilmainham Gaol Museum, Dublin. She has taken part in European residency programmes including Gloucester Cathedral, ArtSway, Irish Museum of Modern Art and Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship. Public art commissions include 'Transpire', St Bede's, Bristol; 'We Are Shadows', Unit2, London; 'Life Cycle', Bristol; 'Re|Sort', Fabrica Gallery, Brighton; Ambush', The New Forest. She has received many national and international awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and she is an Artsway Associate Artist.


www.elpihv.co.uk

ANGELA JANE KENNEDY

Multi-disciplinary artist based in North East England working in movement, installation, sculpture, performance, as well as painting. Her work is about process and the body. Since graduating from Middlesex Polytechnic in 1986 with a degree in Performance Art majoring in Dance she has been working independently as well as making work in, alongside and with many different and diverse communities. She has created performance works for a great variety of venues including galleries, art centres, poetry and cabaret events, street performance and schools. In 2004 and 2005 she was awarded two Professional Development grants from Arts Council England in order to undertake eight Experiential Anatomy courses in Body-Mind Centering (BMC) in Massachusetts, USA and in Germany. She continues to investigate  BMC through her own work, as well as through teaching, facilitation, with other artists, and in work with children and adults. In 2008 she graduated with a degree in Creative Practice majoring in Fine Art from Leeds Metropolitan University.


www.axisweb.org/artist/angelakennedy

MITRA MEMARZIA

London-based artist exhibiting internationally. Through a PhD in theory and practice in fine art, she has specialist knowledge of identity, displacement and representation and of the Middle East and women. Mitra directs her creative practices towards creating inspirational dialogue and exchange, working in collaboration with a broad range of individuals and organisations. Her main passion as an artist is to make work in unexpected places. She is Associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, running the Professional Practice module, Coventry University and Birmingham City University on fine art and design BA and MA courses. She is a Board member of a-n and member of West Midlands consortium CPDI - Consciously Promoting Disruptive Innovation.


www.memarzia.org

RACHEL WILBERFORCE

Norfolk and London based visual artist working with photography, film, video and installation. Referencing issues of the residual, spectacle and liminal, her practice explores the interplay between the private and public through societal and cultural constructs; often presented to the viewer as partial narratives. She has worked with a broad range of individuals and organisations with projects including 'Bound' which she conceived and initiated at Open Eye Gallery in collaboration with National Museums Liverpool, FACT and Tate Liverpool. She is co-founder of Marker - a contemporary art initiative with a focus on developing self-sustainable creative practices via temporary curated exhibitions in empty spaces. She has shown extensively both in UK and abroad including BFI Southbank, Stanley Picker Gallery, Tate Modern, Freud Museum, ICA, Galerie Dana Charkasi, Your-space/Van Abbemuseum and Chaos Gallery. Her work is part of museum collections and permanent displays including the International Slavery Museum (ISM) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade.


www.rachelwilberforce.com 

CAROLINE WRIGHT

Living in Suffolk, she works across live and visual art whilst also lecturing at universities. She has acted as mentor to emerging artists within Suffolk and has been a board member of Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery. She has shown across the UK and Europe in galleries, festivals and site specific locations undertaking residencies in Japan, Ireland and USA. Her work explores human communication, looking at the philosophical and physical aspects of information exchange and recent shows have included the Worcester Open, performances at The Junction, Cambridge and Latitude Festival. Current projects include a two year cultural Olympiad project with the collective LACE produced by London based Artsadmin and two arts council funded projects - respond/reply - a drawing and writing research project with two artists and a poet and a career development programme with Tate Modern curator Ben Borthwick. She is a member of Wysing Arts and an Escalator artist.


www.carolinewright.com

ANNABEL TILLEY

Annabel Tilley makes drawings, and is currently creating a new series of 're-drawings' inspired by the history of English painting. Shortlisted for The 2005 Jerwood Drawing Prize, she has since exhibited widely and undertaken several public commissions and residencies, including most recently at fruehsorge contemporary drawing in Berlin, the Towner, Eastbourne and Hastings Museum & Art Gallery. Her work is held in several private collections. She has written for Arty Magazine, Garageland and a-n's Interface, and writes the blog: how to emerge? 

Exhibitions include: ANSCHLUSSEL: LONDON-BERLIN, Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD) (2012) & Berlin (2011). Hackney Hoard, Gallerie8 (2011), Jerwood Project Space (Solo, 2011), Deptford X (2010), Animate:Oriel Open (2010). In 2011, alongside Rosalind Davis, she co-founded and managed Core Gallery's highly successful artist's professional practice programme Show&Tell and co-curated the exhibition, Home. In 2012 Davis & Tilley have launched ZeitgeistArtsProjects which will continue to provide high quality exhibitions, talks & professional practice events. 

Annabel Tilley trained in Fine Art Painting at University of Brighton, and works from a studio in New Cross, South London. 

www.annabeltilley.moonfruit.com

EMILY SPEED

Emily work's in drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, photography and artists' books, exploring the temporary and the transient through reference to architecture and the body. She examines buildings, both literally and metaphorically, as physical shelters and as containers for memory, bound with the history of their occupiers. Emily often use architectural forms in her work as it represents the most poignant example of transience; man's attempt to create permanence and legacy through building. She is based at The Royal Standard in Liverpool.

www.emilyspeed.co.uk

First published: a-n.co.uk September 2005. Updated November 2010