chronology
alias Residential Weekend 13 -14 April, 2002
Presentation transcript
Sue Jones Editor a-n Magazine
"......... alias which has brought Artists and groups together, which is a kind of remarkable sign that there's something buzzing around here now"
Anthony Shapland, G39
" Some of the things I want to find out about this weekend is why artists, as well as the pressures of making their own work combined with getting wrapped up with all kinds of administration which can inform your work as well and ill run through the background of how we got the space to work in.
"I left college in about 95 I think and I headed with a lot of peers straight to London thinking that the streets were paved with gold and we would all get opportunities and I got quite lucky, I got a residency in Germany at the end of the year"
Louise Short
"I found that I had a lot of visitors, a lot of enquiries in to what I was doing. As I fixed the electrics it seemed to me that it (the studio at Station) could have another use.
One of the things I thought of doing before the funding situation was to try and make it self sufficient so it had its own economy...it would raise its own money through events and activities as there are ways to exchange skills and sponsorship.
ASP
"Studying for an MA at Plymouth school of art its great communication and exhibitive experiences whilst there has given the group a great bond and respect for each other. Not all of our members would come from this background, one being a recent BA graduate who was asked to join on the strength of her work.
Flameworks
" You may not know but Plymouth is a cultural desert, so what we thought it needed was a visible community of artists and a way that they could be grouped together to create a core group like a stone in a pond that would ripple out to the regions surrounding Plymouth. About 7 years ago we came up with the idea. We're basically ex students and staff from the art college and we wondered what had happened to the talent that had left Plymouth.
West Country Giants
"We wanted to continue our work after we graduated so we decided to call in an administrator which was fantastic. We are a collection of writers, performers and composers and we tried to create a company structure of collaboration which can work as a whole group where 5 of us work together or in subsections where 3 or more people can work together so it's exciting as we are all individual artists.
Brunel Broderers
" We're the Brunel Broderers and all 3 of us are here today and ironically we are the 3 founding members of the group. The group formed in 1990 when we were all studying at Bristol and feeling a need to carry on but not knowing how to carry on and needing a support network. We got to a point where we decided we needed to progress, we had done the same sort of things for some years. We needed to develop but we weren't sure how to develop.