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Felicity Shilingford discusses collaboration and networking within her practice.
In 2000, I wrote a piece for www.a-n.co.uk on collaborative practice, as part of the Artists’ Stories feature. At the time I was working with actor/director Garry Robson with whom I had set up the Fittings Multimedia Arts production company. I can remember at the time I was already feeling a little sidelined by the partnership, though still reeling from the big-tented tour, and the concept of finally being paid to produce art. Theatre has a definite hierarchy, and my artistic partner was the director. Even when we became joint artistic directors, our output was predominantly theatre and no matter how much I tried to move our work kicking and screaming towards visual arts, it never really happened. My fellow visual artists rarely came to our shows and when they did, my artworks had in some way become props or backdrops, and viewing was difficult either during, or before and after the production. Also, touring artwork proved complicated, with stage managers damaging pieces or not paying much attention to how they were displayed or transported. Eventually I gave up on that collaboration as I felt that I was working to further someone else’s career and not my own. In the...
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