Residencies with Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival

    Between 2013 and 2018 we hosted a residency programme in partnership with Berwick Film and Media Art Festival, premiering the artists work at the Festival each year.

    Lucy Clout (2018) created a new body of work titled ‘Solvent Magazine’ which  included sculptural and video pieces. An assemblage of parts that brought together research around close readings of bodies – diagnostic narratives, pleasure and ambiguity were used as ways to think about knowledge, evidence and queer reproduction.

    Charlotte Prodger (2017) used her residency to begin an open-ended period of research into an idea of ‘queer rurality’; how queer lives are lived beyond the densely-populated urban contexts that generally dominate LBGTQI narratives, and what happens to the contingent coded signifiers of queer bodies within wildernesses. This resulted in a new video entitled  LHB.

    Other artists in residence included Lucy Parker (2016), Paul Rooney (2015), Katie Davies (2014) and Cecilia Stenbom (2013).

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    Residencies with Newcastle University’s Centre for Rural Economy and Institute for Creative Arts Practice

    Our most recent artist in residence with Newcastle University was photographer Joanne Coates (2020-21) who researched gender bias in agriculture by documenting the working lives of women farmers based in the Northumberland and the North East of England to understand the challenges they face within this sector.

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    Morag Eaton and Mats Wikström (2021)