APT Introduces Anh-Phuong Nguyen & Stanley Tilyard-French

About

Jointly Funded by the Fenton Arts Trust and APT, this is the last year of our annual Award which has provided a free studio space for a year, alongside regular mentoring for two emerging artists.

Sculpture was the focus in year three and we are delighted to introduce Anh-Phuong and Stanley’s work, mentored this past year by APT artists Chris Marshall and Bernice Donszelmann.

Anh-Phuong (ap) Nguyen (b. 1999) is a multidisciplinary artist based in London and actively working in both the United Kingdom and Vietnam. Her practice encompasses various disciplines, with a particular focus on installations involving sculpture and video. Through the assembling of landscapes, characters and objects, her work interrogates prevailing clichés associated with the contemporary experience of travel, tourism and consumption. In her exploration, she sheds light on the intricate narratives of desire interwoven within these societal phenomena. 

Stanley Tilyard-French is a British artist from Brighton, based in London. He graduated from Chelsea College of Arts with a First in BA Fine Art in 2020. He performs counterproductive tasks and builds work to perform it for him. Using digital components such as servos and motors he makes work to primarily consider its useless functionality. He leaves clues to how the work might function but programs inconsistencies to indicate it might be out of order. Often inviting some form of interaction or participation; he invites the audience to consider themselves an unpaid performer. His work is playful and silly, often directing the joke at the viewer or itself. He likes to consider the edges to his artworks, the room it is sat in, the people surrounding it, the YouTube border around a video on a laptop, and makes work self-referential to this.