CUBITT ARTISTS - Key Persons
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- Co - Chair ), Artistic Director, Brighton CCA
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- Head of Legal, the Dune Group
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Aberdeen-based Kirsty Russell's first solo exhibition presents new work that draws correlations between handling practices for textile conservation, processes of sculptural casting, and the manners by which people are moved and handled in care and nursing practices. Departing from conversations with relatives working in healthcare, this project expands on Russell's existing sculptural and hosting practices through sound and film to deepen her research on material interactions that occur in moving, supporting and engaging with the human body.
KIRSTY RUSSELL is an artist living in Aberdeen. Her work is concerned with support, and structures that underpin and maintain. With reference to the women in her family who work in positions of care, she often returns to the physical and emotional weight of the work that they do and to the repetitive nature of maintenance. Her work expands into places of care, such as hospitals and schools, through project worker and other supporting roles.
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- Schools and Young People Programme Manager
MARLENE SMITH is a British artist and curator, and one of the founding members of the BLK Art Group. She was director of The Public in West Bromwich and UK Research Manager for Black Artists and Modernism, a collaborative research project run by the University of the Arts London and Middlesex University. She has recently exhibited work as part of ‘The More Things Change' at Wolverhampton Art Gallery; ‘Cut & Mix' New Art Exchange, Nottingham; ‘The Place Is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain' Nottingham Contemporary.
MATHEW WAYNE PARKIN is an artist, writer and sodden suspicious faerie. They often work with experimental moving image as part of an expanded practice that encompasses exhibition making, relationships, writing and programming. Parkin is particularly interested in autobiography, intimacy and speech. Resisting dominant and professionalised forms of media and moving image production, Parkin embraces DIY and home video techniques, as well as queer crip analysis.
MOUAAD EL SALEM is director, activist and lead character of the debut film This Day Won't Last. Mouaad lives and dreams in Tunisia. He has the impression he's wasting his life in a place where he can't be himself. He hopes to attend a film school someday to develop his talent and to make more films.
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- Associate - Artist With Migrants
- British - Panjabi Performance Artist
Todmorden-based artist Nicola Singh presents a solo project developing new work in exhibition and performance related to ritualistic practices of vocal improvisation and meditation.
NICOLA SINGH is British-Panjabi performance artist and experimental vocalist, working between experimental new music and visual art. She uses text, sound and improvisation to explore the complexities of South-Asian diasporic identity. Her practice also incorporates film, drawing and movement practices.
Nicola is an associate-artist with Migrants in Culture, a migrant-led design agency made up of artists, designers, researchers and organisers with experiences of migration, diaspora and racialisation.
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- Manager, Group Strategy, HSBC
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SEÁN ELDER is a curator and writer from the Scottish Highlands, currently based in Birmingham, UK. Educated at Schools of Art in Birmingham, Glasgow, and Aberdeen, Elder recently completed a doctoral research project examining the roles and potentials of affect within curatorial writing practices. Previously they were Associate Curator at Grand Union, Birmingham, and has worked independently with a number of organisations and artists to develop writing, exhibitions, screenings, and events.
Elder has grown from, through, and with relationships with artists including; Gordon Douglas, Rami George, Benny Nemer, Kirsty Russell, Tako Taal, Rehana Zaman and many more, with organisations including; Jerwood Arts, London; Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee; Grand Union, Birmingham; BALTIC 39, Newcastle; The Stuart Croft Foundation; Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Hospitalfield, Arbroath; BEK, Bergen; LUX Scotland.
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- Head of Public Programmes, Crafts Council