Art House Open Lecture Series
Our tenth season of contemporary artists’ talks, presented via a partnership with the University of Worcester’s Fine Art department.
The talks involve some of the most exciting contemporary artists currently making work in the UK, who talk about their artwork, ideas and the processes they use.
These talks take place both in person at The Art House and online via Zoom.
Previous talks this season:
Sam Metz
Tuesday 25 October 2022, 5-6.30pm
Sam Metz is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and researcher inspired by movement. Sam’s work researches, creates and reflects on the concept of what they refer to as ‘choreographic objects’. A ‘choreographic object’ is any work Sam creates that has, through the process of making or in the way it looks, a relationship to the body and movement. These works have included animation, analogue and digital film, paintings and sculptural objects, such as 3D printed forms. These objects are created through movement and rhythm, whether in the form of still images lifted from film footage of Sam’s live art or in the dynamic, repetitive gestures of their mark making.
As a neurodivergent artist with sensory processing differences, the objects allow Sam to work in non-verbal ways, which is a key part of their practice. As an artist with an unpredictable body (due to both Tourette’s and the disability EDS, a connective tissue disorder) the creation of visual, sculptural objects for choreography and alternative forms of notation have allowed the artist alternative methods of communication with artists.
Sam studied Architecture and Critical Theory (Philosophy) at University of Nottingham and had previously trained in physical theatre, they currently work out of Juice Studios and the Makerspace in Hull. They are supported by a S-H-E-D (Sustainability Health Environment Development) research grant for ‘Drawing as Stimming’, an Unlimited bursary and Arts Council England project grant. They have previously received a Jerwood bursary for research into stimming and Outsider Art.
Barry Sykes
Tuesday 8 November 2022, 5-6.30pm
Barry Sykes (born Essex, 1976) makes sculptures, performances and works on paper that examine the power of authenticity, pleasure, and human connection. Referencing different modes of display, design and presentation, his objects and events are experiments in how we negotiate value, significance and trust.
In projects like impersonating a community Police Officer, a residency at a naturist club and his ongoing Laughter Yoga workshops he engages audiences, collaborators and participants using detail, distraction, humour and absurdity.
Recent events have been presented with The Museum of London; Focal Point Gallery, UK; and Art Night, London. He is founding member of the Sauna Reading Group.
Now available to watch online here.
April Lin 林森
Tuesday 15 November 2022, 5-6.30pm.
April Lin 林森 (b. 1996, Stockholm – they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and independent curator investigating image-making and world-building as sites for the construction, sustenance, and dissemination of co-existent yet conflicting truths. Working across moving image, performance, creative computing and installation, they dream & explore & critique & fret & catastrophise & imagine & play — for a collective remembering of forgotten pasts, for a critical examination of normalised presents, and for a visualising of freer futures as, of course, imagined from the periphery.
Interweaving strands of auto-biography, documentary, queer ecology, and new media, April Lin 林森’s works are topped off with an inevitable garnish consisting of the other matters dialoguing with their brain and heart during the making process of each piece. Uniting their genre-fluid body of work is a commitment to centring oppressed knowledges, building an ethics of collaboration around reciprocal care, and exploring the linkages between history, memory, and interpersonal and structural trauma.
Their work has been shown at the Museum of the Moving Image New York, Sheffield DocFest, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, the V&A Museum, HOME, Malmö Konstmuseum, LA Filmforum, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Manchester Art Galley, MADATAC, Arebyte Gallery, Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, NOWNESS Asia, and 4:3 Boiler Room.
Now available to watch online here.
Joseph Walsh
Tuesday 29 November 2022, 5-6.30pm.
Joseph Walsh is an artist based in London. His work is about plants and actualising the statement “we co-habit with nature”. This has involved doing herb meditation workshops, observational drawing and painting in nature, and learning through his upkeep of a plot of land in a wildlife community garden. He has also produced films, his most recent was about the long running cook’s collective The Bonnington Cafe in London, showing its alternative work practice and how its approach to cooking and collective organisation has been sympathetic to a diversity of people. This includes the artist, who has dyslexia.
Now available to watch online here.
Hilary Jack
Tuesday 7 February 2023, 5-6.30pm
Hilary Jack works across media in research-based projects, site referential artworks, sculptural installations and interventions. Her work has an activist element which comments on the politics of place, socio- political and environmental issues. Found objects are important elements within her practice often triggering ideas for new work exploring recurring environmental themes.
Hilary has exhibited across the UK and Internationally and her work is in public and private collections. Her work has recently been acquired by The Government Art Collection, Alnoba Sculpture Park USA and Manchester Art Gallery where it is on long term display in the main atrium.
Along with Lucy Harvey, Hilary is co-founder and director of Paradise Works. Between 2003 and 2008 with artist Paul Harfleet, she co-founded and directed Apartment an artist-led space in a one bedroom flat on the sixth floor of Lamport Court a council tower block in central Manchester.
Now available to watch online here.
Emma Critchley
Tuesday 21 February 2023, 5-6.30pm
Emma Critchley is an artist who uses a combination of photography, film, sound and installation to continually explore the human relationship with the underwater environment as a political, philosophical and environmental space. She is Royal College of Art alumni and has developed works funded by organisations including The National Media Museum, Arts Council England, British Council, Singapore International Foundation, British Academy and the European Regional Development Fund. Her work has been shown extensively nationally and internationally in galleries and institutions including The Australian Centre of Photography, the ICA Singapore, The National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Tate St Ives.
In 2019 she completed a short film funded by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation called ‘Common Heritage’, about the imminent threat of deep-sea mining for rare earth minerals. For this she worked with experts in deep sea ecology and law at the National Oceanography Centre and Universities of Plymouth & Southampton.
In 2019, Emma was the winner of the EARTH WATER SKY residency programme with Science Gallery Venice, where she has been working with the Ice Memory Project. The resulting film installation launched in the official Italian pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 and went on to be exhibited in partnership with Science Gallery Venice in September.
Now available to watch online here.
Daniel Pryde-Jarman
Tuesday 14 March 2023, 5-6.30pm.
Daniel Pryde-Jarman is an artist and curator whose research interests include institutional critique, the politics of display, and forms of self-organised artist-led culture.
Pryde-Jarman has been involved in setting up several artist-run spaces, including Grey Area in Brighton (2006 – 2012), and is currently Director of Meter Room project space & studios, an arts charity based in Coventry that provides affordable studio space to recent art graduates. Pryde-Jarman trained at the University of Brighton and Chelsea College of Arts, and completed his practice-based PhD in Curatorial Practice at Coventry University.
Art & Climate Roundtable
Tuesday 18 April 2023, 5-8pm
Featuring voices from leading artists and hosted by Andy Fryers (Sustainability Director at Hay Festival), four panellists (Andrew Howe, Naiza Khan and Sally Payen, fourth pannellist tbc) will discuss how their practice responds to the environment and how art can impact the climate change emergency.
The Art and Climate Roundtable is part of the programme of events surrounding Watermark, a contemporary art exhibition exploring water, flooding and the climate crisis in partnership with venues across Worcester (January – June 2023).
Speakers: Andrew Howe, Naiza Khan and Sally Payen (fourth speaker tbc).
Following the roundtable event, there will be a live, open-air performance by DanceFest at University of Worcester City Campus terraces, weaving in and around the artworks Flood & Potemkin by Daniel Pryde-Jarman.
Events are in person at The Hive and on Zoom.
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