Round 5
Selected artist: Cath Carver
Cath is a neurodivergent interdisciplinary artist and producer, exploring the social, spatial, sensory & sonic in her chromatic and civic practice. Her work uses colour to honour life and ecology, elevate wellbeing, invite collective imagination, activate community agency and nourish social cohesion. Colour as a tool for connection with space, community and creativity.
Residency Proposal:
Soft Power Agency. A bit like you’d expect to see agencies (of various kinds) on the high street, this project playfully uses the word to support the focus on the renewal of community connection through workshops and public interventions — centred around Green Lanes in Palmers Green. Cath will be working with textiles, colour and communications, inviting the community on a soft power journey, to appreciate what’s there and invite new possibilities.
Residency: 13th January - 6th April 2025
Exhibition: 4th - 27th April 2025
Exciting series of workshops to be announced, stay tuned!
Follow Cath's work:
@colourcarver
@colour_your_city
http://colouryourcity.com
Round 4
Selected Artist: Harriette Meynell
Harriette's practice incorporates sound, installation, drawing, printmaking, performance and photography. With a socially engaged practice, themes such as gentrification and community run through her work. She's shown work in a range of traditional and non-traditional spaces such as Tate Modern and an east London garage.
Project Proposal:
To realise new, site specific work based on the shops in Palmers Green and the people that run and frequent them. An initial aim is to work with local shopkeepers to explore the outside and inside of their shops, with particular emphasis on the threshold, and what makes people go in, or not. The focus is not re-imagining the high street per se, but better understanding, and appreciating, what is already there, including the typically unseen, and to create alternative narratives of familiar spaces.
Residency: 9th September - 1st December 2024
Final Exhibition: ‘a line of thought’, 29th November - 15th Dec 2024
Listen to the Soundwork made with field recordings and interviews with local shop and office workers here: https://on.soundcloud.com/yv1VaoRXuxU1JHWTA
Workshops:
30th October 2024, 3D High Street Collage
1st November 2024, Explore the Surfaces of Palmers Green
9th November 2024, Deep Listening and Sound Drawing
Plus working with 60 students from a local school!
Follow Harriette’s work:
@harriettemeynell
Round 3
Selected Artists: DYSPLA
DYSPLA makes art and conducts research into the Neurodivergent Aesthetic with a focus on short form narrative. They work in the following mediums: Digital, Print, Photography, Poetry, Performance, XR (VR, 360º Film, AR, MR), Moving Image, Theatre and Installation to elucidate a new artistic aesthetic defined by the cognitive difference of neurodivergence.
Project Proposal:
To explore the stories and histories of disabled communities of Palmers Green and surrounding areas in Enfield. They will collaborate with our community to create poetry based on the stories and histories within the area, which will accompany digital sculptures based on captured physicality of the members of our local disabled community.
Residency: 27th May - 18th August 2024
Final Exhibition: ‘Enfield is Disabled’, 16th Aug - 14th Sept 202
As part of the residency DYSPLA ran free Poetry and Digital Art community workshops with local disabled residents, creating the content of the exhibition.
Follow DYSPLA’s work:
@dyspla_festival
www.dyspla.com
Round 2
Selected Artist: Tope Olufemi
Tope Olufemi is a multi-disciplinary artist based in North London. Their work spans sound, photography and journalism. They are mainly interested in electronic music - the ways that we organise to experience it, and the experiments undertaken in its creation. Their writing has been featured in i-D, Crack, and Mixmag alongside other publications. They recently contributed sound design to Simisoluwa Akande’s ‘The Archive: Queer Nigerians’. Through workshop facilitation and their club night ‘Happy Survival’, they aim to encourage others to contribute to the canon of the Black diasporic experimental/electronic music through creation and participation.
Project Proposal:
Incorporating field recordings, original music and photography - Give & Take peeks into the everyday motion of the high street in order to understand its spaces and community.
Residency: 12th February - 5th May 2024
Final Exhibition: ‘Give & Take’, 4th - 26th May 2024
Workshops:
27th April 2024, Local Pleasures, Local Treasures with Tope Olufemi and Jade Chao
4th May 2024, Industrial Thinking with Tope Olufemi and Tice Cin
Follow Tope’s work:
@workoishere
Photos by Katrina Campbell
Round 1
Selected artist: Abi Ola
Abi Ola is a multidisciplinary artist that specialises in oil and acrylic painting, drawing, installation, photography, screen printing, and fabric collage. Her paintings are often of clothing patterns, sometimes with a faceless figure present. Abi is inspired by old family clothing, William Morris textiles, African Dutch wax textiles, traditional African textiles, emojis, her imagination and Nature.
Residency: 1st November 2023 - 4th February 2024
Final Exhibition: Abi Ola, 2nd - 25th February 2024
Workshops:
20th and 21st January 2024, Abstract Fabric Collage Painting Workshops
Follow Abi’s work:
@abiolaartist
www.abiolaartist.co.uk
Photos by Katrina Campbell
he artist residency programme has been made possible by the funding from Enfield council’s workspace launch fund