Meet the artists: Sustainability Residency, LCT 2022

UK New Artists is delighted to introduce you to the selected artists for the ‘Sustainability’ residency as part of our City Takeover in Leicester. The artists represent a range of art forms, from photography to cabaret, film to immersive performance.

The residency will explore sustainability beyond the green/eco materialism focus. Posing questions such as ‘what could a sustainable practice holistically involve?’ The group will participate in workshops, creative experiments, crits and discussions.

Convex

Convex is a performance making duo that gives threatened environments a voice.
To Convex, people and places form living ecosystems to be preserved and revived.
Convex creates vocal soundscapes, sound installation and choral promenades to embody a place and the pressures against it. Audiences get immersed in thought-provoking, collective experiences.

Since 2018 Convex has given voice to: London’s public spaces lost to privatisation (Defence to Forbid), rivers and their rights (Thalweg), the first council Estate in England and its communities (Inner Circle) and underwater tunnels (Float). Convex has been supported by Culture Seeds, Spitalfields Music, Rich Mix and Totally Thames.

Ella Yolande

Ella Yolande is a British visual artist born in 1997. She studied art in Devon before completing a BA in Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art, 2019. She primarily works with video, sculpture and digital media, experimenting with installation and expanded cinema practices. Influences range from elements of the natural world, such as our interconnected environments, ocean organisms, slimes and scientific imagery; to music videos and set design. She is interested in creating surreal environments to explore ideas of ecosystems, microorganisms and ecological issues.

Hannah Fletcher

Hannah Fletcher is a London based artist, working with cameraless photographic processes and a Co-director of London Alternative Photography Collective.

Hannah Fletcher’s work intertwines organic matter such as soils, algae, mushrooms and roots into analogue photographic mediums and surfaces. Simultaneously, exploring environmentally and ecologically-focused issues. Working in an investigative, pseudo scientific and environmentally conscious manner, Hannah combines scientific techniques with photographic processes, creating a dialogue between the poetic and political.

Recently, she has initiated and is running The Sustainable Darkroom Project; an artist run research, training and mutual learning programme to equip cultural practitioners with new skills and knowledge to develop a more environmentally friendly analogue photographic practice.

Jasmine Shigemura Lee

Jasmine Shigemura Lee is an interdisciplinary artist who creates visual art and performance. Her work explores identity and vulnerability from a queer perspective through the use of illusion, humour and transformation. She is a graduate of the Slade School of Art, where she was a recipient of the Clare Winsten Memorial Award and the Berenice Goodwin Prize for performance art. Previously she has worked with and performed at a variety of venues, organisations and festivals including: Roundhouse, Glastonbury, Latitude, Diskurs Festival (Germany), Spare Tyre, Porsgrunn International Theatre Festival (Norway), Critical Interruptions and the Live Art Development Agency.

Rhian Cooke

Rhian Cooke is an artist working in Leeds, making work across film, animation, sculpture and installation. She explores the crossing between nature and the environment, shifting between imagination and reality. She takes inspiration from autobiographical objects, cycling, wildlife and traffic. Her work often starts with a handmade process including textiles, painting and recycling personal old objects. She uses different forms of animation including stop motion and 3D video editing software which enables her to virtually reimagine objects and let them perform new narratives. The objects tell on-going stories of their connection to the environment and their hidden fragility.

Suzanne Anthony

Suzanne Anthony’s practice is centred on the notion of playful, intuitive making. Using a language of care and resourcefulness, she takes unwanted materials and gives them new life. Responding to the inherent qualities of the materials she reclaims, Suzanne teases them into abstract sculptural forms, transforming and animating that which is otherwise overlooked.

Suzanne graduated from Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art, and has since exhibited with the Royal Scottish Academy’s ‘New Contemporaries’, winning the RSA’s Art Prize. She has also been commissioned by Embassy Gallery for a year-long collaborative residency and exhibited for the biennial Gilchrist-Fisher Award 2020.

Madara VimbaFebruary 5, 2021artists, magazine, M3