Bursary winners
This is a list of previous CuratorSpace bursary winners. If you are a subscriber you find out how apply for the next CuratorSpace bursary by going to https://bursary.curatorspace.com.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Rebecca Korn
Rebecca Korn's interdisciplinary practice stems from a fascination with the intersections between art and science. Her recent interests explore the posthuman body, investigating ideas around symbiosis, sympoiesis and speculative futures, re/imagining how bodies may adapt/evolve through learning from and with non-human counterparts.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Natalia Janula
Natalia Janula is a Polish-born artist of Roma heritage, currently based in London. Their artistic practice spans sculpture, moving image, installation and performance. They are interested in urban and natural environments and the slippage between the two. Repeated themes within their work include domestic and fictional landscapes, object oriented ontologies, queer interspecies bodies and the natural world.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Gabrielle Hoad
Gabrielle Hoad makes work that includes live, ephemeral elements as well as more lasting documentary traces such as photographs, films, publications and objects. She has a long-standing interest in the crossover of art and science.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Melanie King
Melanie King is an artist and curator with a specific focus on astronomy. She is co-Director of super/collider, Lumen Studios, and the London Alternative Photography Collective. Melanie is a practice-based PhD Candidate in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Naomi Aderonke
Naomi is a burgeoning multidisciplinary research and narrative led artist who has developed their illustrative and narrative skills past digital art and traditional print into 3D work. Exploring ceramics and textile through tufting, Naomi looks at the form, colours and materials used, not just the image, to create the stories they want to tell. Naomi is a storyteller who thrives on folk, history and culture; looking into ways of exploring that through artistic objects.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Sam Metz
Sam Metz is an artist based in Hull who creates work that engages with the concept of ‘neuroqueering’. They create sculptural installations that incorporate both film and animation while exploring body-based responses to ecology. As a neurodivergent artist and curator with sensory processing differences, Sam creates work in non-verbal ways that begin and end in movement and embodied interactions without recourse to traditionally privileged verbal and written forms of communication.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Iram Iqbal
Iram Iqbal is an Islamic artist who creates both traditional and contemporary art. Using Arabic Calligraphy, Islamic architecture, and other symbolic imagery, she uses her art to show the beauty of Islam and address the many misconceptions about it.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Diane Ketteringham
Diane Ketteringham is an interactive installations artist, engaging with passersby to explore their emotional, social and cultural landscapes and inviting them to break conventions. She explores ‘sharing’ in its widest sense through artworks where she is often an active participant.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Nicola Garvey
After changing careers later in life, Nicola Garvey graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Leeds Arts University in 2021. Her work is inspired by the everyday and promotes the overlooked and underrated, which is reflected across the wide range of media that she uses.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Tarla Patel
Tarla Patel explores identity, space and belonging. She combines analogue film and photography with digital media to create layered stories of migration and transition of cultures in today's society. She is also one of the founders of an artist collective called COVert Arts.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Eve Schroeder
Eve Schroeder is a multi-disciplinary artist and maker exploring themes of Fat Justice and Fat activism in contemporary illustration and arts practices. Through this research, she has created work that more accurately and positively represents the fat body.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Jo Liddle
Jo Liddle's practice is based on personal narrative and history, loss, and memory; exploring ideas of time passing and the trace, if any, that we leave behind. She often uses oil paint, but sometimes digital images, to build up a layered surface; removing and rubbing back to reveal a lost memory and creating a tension between the seen and the unseen, or almost seen.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #20: Arlo Lawton
Arlo Lawton is a 25-year-old freelance artist and photographer from the North West, now based in Norfolk, England. The basis of their photographic work often lies within LGBTQ+ awareness and environmental activism. Their digital artwork predominantly revolves around transmasculine identities and life experiences.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #20: Ali Pickard
Ali Pickard, otherwise known as The Yaffingale, is interested in which stories are told, and who tells them. Trained in metal art as part of a Women's Welding collective, she creates 3D, kinetic artworks, mixing wood and metal with fabric and embroidery.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #20: Alan Gignoux
Alan Gignoux is an award-winning documentary photographer and founder of Gignoux Photos, which produces documentary photography and film projects focusing on socio-political and environmental issues around the world.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #20: Kofi Perry
Kofi Perry (1998) is an American figurative artist based in London. Using historical methods, he paints and draws characters set in a Afrofuturist world he has created. Critical to his practice is the technique of figurative invention, or working without the use of live models.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #20: Yang-En Hume
Yang-En Hume is an Australian artist with Singaporean heritage. Hume grew up in Sydney, Australia and acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora nation as the traditional owners of that land. She pays her respects to their Elders past and present and extends that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #20: Camilla Stacey
Camilla Stacey is an artist, curator and #topclassfashionmodel based in Penryn, Cornwall. Her practice includes printmaking, installation, collage, drawing and zinemaking, and explores trauma and grief through humour and emotional sensitivity.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #19: Ruth Charnock
Ruth Charnock makes work about and from difficult embodiments, anger, shame, motherhood, queerness and gender. She is also part of a feminist making collective, in its first stirrings, and works increasingly within animist and divinatory practices, such as tarot.
More detailsCuratorSpace Artist Bursary #19: Japhet Dinganga
Japhet Dinganga is a Birmingham-based visual artist and DT technician, mainly working in installation.
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