University of Incidental Knowledge Staff Profiles (part 1):
Alice Bradshaw
Alice Bradshaw is an artist and curator based in West Yorkshire, UK. Her practice involves a wide range of media and processes involving the manipulation of everyday objects and materials. Mass-produced, anonymous objects are often rendered dysfunctional caricatures of themselves, addressing concepts of purpose and futility and blurring distinctions between the absurd and the mundane. Alice curates collaboratively and is co-founding director of Fundada Artists’ Film Festival, founding director of the Museum of Contemporary Rubbish, co-curator in residence at Westgate Studios, Wakefield and co-curator for Holmfirth Arts Festival.
http://www.alicebradshaw.co.uk
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Louise Atkinson
Louise Atkinson is a Leeds-based artist, curator and gallery educator. She works in a variety of media, relating the process to the concept. Her interests lie in the relationship between art, language and ritual, and particularly in the impact of social media on communication. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and worked on projects organised by Tate Britain, Leeds University, LAB Gallery, New York and Whitechapel Gallery, London, among others.
Currently, she curates for Shine Leeds and is founder of the online international group Artist Book Collective, from which she produces exhibitions alongside Leeds International Artist Book Fair.
http://louiseatkinsonblog.blogspot.com
Courses: BA (Hons) Comedy & Bsc Social Media
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Fundada
Fundada is an artist collective of Alice Bradshaw, Nancy Porter and Wolfie. Wolfie is really the mastermind behind the operation. He was rescued from a brewery in North Yorkshire and has since been championing the humourous and surreal with Alice and Nancy doing all the hard work. Alice and Nancy met whilst working at Temporary Art Space in Halifax in 2009 where cheap cava sealed their collaborative fate. Fundada is best known for Fundada Artists’ Film Festival (FAFF) which inaugurated at Halifax Festival 2010 and has shown some of the best artists’ short films from across the world. In 2011 FAFF moved to Wakefield and will tour in 2012. Fundada has always been interested the foreign and exotic, with the collective name found on a Havana Club rum bottle.
fundadaartistsfilmfestival.blogspot.com
vimeo.com/fundada
Courses: BA (Hons) Foreign Language
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Vanessa Haley
Vanessa Haley is a person with a somewhat varied art practice. The biggest piece of which is her ongoing diaries that began in 1983 with the immortal words; this diary belongs to Vanessa Haley. This tomb of the emotional and professional rollercoaster which records her life, is intended to be her legacy to her son, because for damned sure she won’t be leaving him any money, chattels or property.
You can find examples of her work in many places, but feels that for the purposes of this it would be better if she didn’t tell you where they were, but that it might be quite nice if you just happened, by chance to find some of it.
Courses: BA (Hons) Film
