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Posted on May 28th, 2010 During Eastman Chengs Breathe Residency with us, the artist will be working with a local Cheetham Hill womens group, to create soft sculptural pieces based around the womens views about the city they live in.
Eastman will be working alongside a number of local artists and students throughout June, and the works created in the workshops will be exhibited as part of the Asia Triennial Manchester next September. These workshops are just the first phase of three trailblazer projects that will be taking place between now and the 2011 festival.
The project aims to create opportunities for local Asian communities to share ideas and skills with both local and international artists, and looks set to result in a series of wonderful collaborative works.
Posted on April 22nd, 2010 12 May -21 August 2010
Open Studio Thursday 19 August 2010
Eastman Cheng is curious about how objects are used and consumed in society, observing objects, I can see peoples lives. I re-create objects through observing objects. Her furniture-sculptures and installations, often incorporating existing objects, are her way of recording visual experiences and her own making process.
During her residency at Chinese Arts Centre, Eastman will observe, analyse and create objects from the perspective of a foreigner. The residency will provide her with the opportunity to learn skills from local practitioners and make new works. In particular, she will be working with the local design and craft centre residents to learn jewellery design.
The objects created will become a record of Eastmans personal impressions of Manchester. They will be influenced by British culture, particularly in the form of local fashions and commodities. Based upon objects she finds in Manchester, these new hybrid sculptural works will incorporate the objects original history and purpose. Eastman is planning to ask members of the public to borrow her sculptural works and make use of them in their homes, before photographing them in situ.
During her residency Eastman will be running a series of workshops with Manchester Art Gallery as a trailblazer to the Asia Triennial Manchester in 2011 and taking part in Future Everything.
Posted on February 20th, 2010 Wang Jun
20th January – 23rd April 2010
Open Studio: – 15 – 22nd April
The focus of Wang Juns work is the evolving nature of the Chinese as they adapt to dramatic shifts in the social framework. Wang makes works from the perspective of microscopic studies of the minutia of the everyday in an attempt to recover the unique qualities of the Chinese community.
During his Breathe Residency, Wang Jun will visit the homes of Manchester artists. Working in collaboration, he wishes to observe the traits and features of social spaces within the home. He hopes to collate these dialogues into a curatoral project that brings together artists from Manchester and Chongqing, juxtaposing the work from the two cities. The project attempts to discuss the inherited social codes that connect an individual to their own culture and social groupings.
Based at 501 Artspace in Chongqing, Wang Jun is an artist who works across a variety of media. On a daily basis Wang Jun will make paintings, drawings and photographs. The influence of his new environment will resolve into a specifically created installation or performance for the open studio at the end of the residency.
Presented with Support from Visiting Arts and British Council.
Posted on December 1st, 2009 Daniel Staincliffe & Sarah Sanders Project Space 1st – 23rd December 2009
In January 2009, Sarah Sanders spent 1month in Chongqing as part of the Breathe Chongqing residency at 501 Artspace.
In April 2009 Daniel was artist in residence at Red Gate Gallery in Beijing. Chinese Arts Centre will provide both artists the opportunity . . . → Read More: Daniel Staincliffe & Sarah Sanders
Posted on August 26th, 2009 25 August – 25 November 2009
At the centre of Yingmei Duan’s performance art is her exploration of human instincts, longings, and dark desires. She examines the processes of society and questions its conventions and behaviours. Duan is an inquisitive observer who asks questions of all facets of life in order to continuously learn . . . → Read More: Yingmei Duan
Posted on May 3rd, 2009 21 May – 21 August 2009 Open Studio 15 –21 August 2009
Moving between materials, Jessica Tsang has made works that combine sculptural forms and the painted surface. Jessica’s work focuses on the dynamic between the painted image, and the qualities of the physical structure this representational surface occupies. This dialogue formulates itself as . . . → Read More: Jessica Tsang
Posted on December 24th, 2008
29 January – 30 April 2009
Breathe Artist-in-Residence Christine Wong Yap, a multi-disciplinary visual artist from San Francisco, California, will open her studio to the public from April 23 – 30, 2009, with a public preview on Thursday, 23 April, 5.30-7.30 pm.
. . . → Read More: Christine Wong Yap
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