Artist Development Residency - Longton
To embark my residency journey, I was excited to be offered the space to create some art. I felt the support from the Urban Wilderness team and the space offered me everything I needed from ventilation, big bright windows, space for activities to extra art equipment if needed. The original plan was to set myself a theme to explore. I chose technology, how it has affected our lives and how we see it developing going forward. It has been a theme that I always wanted to delve into, after reflecting on the subject matter and various conversations with friends. By the end of this residency, I would like to have a body of work that will help inform my practice and develop my artistic skills/processes, as well as producing a variety of artworks that can be selected and displayed in an exhibition format. I decided to make use of old canvases I had laying around the house as well as old pictures frames from charity shops, which I always aimed to make use of artistically. I wante...
