Beyond the frame Artist Talk with Studio 8 Collective

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Sarah Connell used the residency to break free from the traditional methods of presenting and exhibiting her work, which is conventionally, the end-product, mounted and framed and placed onto the gallery wall.

“During the mentoring programme I realised just how significant my studio/darkroom is a space for the development of my work. I want to create a ‘sense of my studio’ within the space, giving people the opportunity to see behind the scenes.”

By focusing on the viewers emotional experience, she will harness the use of prints, projection, and installation to create an immersive space that challenges how photography is traditionally viewed and experienced.

She will be asking, “We live in world where we are constantly bombarded by digital images. What role does analogue photography play now?”

Bernadette Bone has explored the emotional experience of being a female architect within a male classified world,  challenging the restrictions and erasure of that journey by gifting herself the freedom to play, experiment, fail, and find form of her own story. The solidarity and support of the artists and space itself providing the safety for such expression. She will be using familiar mediums and methods alongside new materials and sculptural forms. Breaking free from her highly skilled approach into areas of raw form, yet, unknown.

Yvonne Noworyta has been wworking with lost and care-worn ephemera to delve into ideas around sentimentality and objecthood, how beloved belongings are instruments for the holding and treasuring of memory.

Yvonne intends to construct a lamp, ‘to shine a light in the darkness of recent times’ to light for her final piece for the exhibition using donated broken brooches, earrings, bangles or necklaces that have lost their backs, clasps or fixings and costumes that have lost part of their original ensemble.

Mair Doyle responds to the environment in which she lives, which is a former textile mill near Marple. She considers herself a caretaker for the site in which wildlife has been allowed to flourish in this early industrial landscape, and her studio a research space in which she maps and records the plants and landscape through compiling visual notes, works on paper, drawing, painting and collage. Teaching workshops on the site is a way of sharing her enthusiasm for both art and her surroundings. During the residency she has been working on an installation that explores nature escaping boundaries.

Suzanne Bethell is interested in recording psychological states through painting and drawing and she has used the residency to experiment with the technique of expanded painting to potentially create a larger scale installation.   She will be demonstrating her process in the gallery, responding to music using colour and marks across unfolding rolls of paper

Ceramic artist, Suzie McDaniel has been treating the residency as a research exercise, working with 3D paper collages and other materials, to explore sculptural ideas for future works in clay.