A Curriculum

8 March - 2 May 2010

A Foundation Artist Residency
In association with Saatchi Online and John Moores University


A Foundation is pleased to announce the eight artists selected to participate in A Curriculum, 2010 are:

Florian Bielefeldt (Berlin, Germany)
Noel Cluit (Blackpool, UK)
Przemek Dzienis (£ódŸ, Poland)
Myles Painter (London, UK)
Hannah Perry (Cheshire, UK)
Philip Root (Northants, UK)
Elizabeth Skadden (Berlin, Germany)
Emily Speed (Liverpool, UK)

The artists were chosen from a Europe-wide open submission for the new A Curriculum Artist Residency at A Foundation in Liverpool, taking place between 8th March and 2nd May 2010. The residents will be provided with studio space within A Foundation Liverpool’s Blade Factory. Assisting their studio time will be a programme of discussions and tutorials from a wide variety of art professionals who are active as artists, gallerists, collectors, commissioners or curators.

The residency will give the participants the opportunity to discuss the varied ways in which artists sustain their practice, building a detailed picture of the artist within the wider professional context. A Curriculum offers the resident artists insights into how the various facets of the art world interrelate, while simultaneously providing a space for the dynamic production of new work.


A Curriculum: exhibition
Fridays and Saturdays, 12 - 6pm until 22 May 2010

The A Curriculum artists-in-residence present work made in the two months spent at A Foundation,Liverpool. During their time on the residency the artists have attended a programme of talks, and received studio visits, by a number of artists and art professionals. Coming to the end of this period the artists would like to invite the public into their studios which will be returned to an exhibition space.

Florian Bielefeldt
Presenting a comic book world in outsized cardboard cut-outs and wall drawings Florian Bielefeldt seeks to create a bizarre spectacle of the supernatural and superhuman. By rendering this trash genre in semi-convincing 3D of human proportions Bielefeldt wishes to comment upon the contemporary aspiration to resolve the traumatic relationship between the inner and outer worlds as is played out in the graphic novel scenario.

Noel Clueit
Through the careful choice and manipulation of materials Noel Clueit seeks to explore the shift and erosion of taste and value within contemporary culture – this manifests in work that exists as a reference to it's own supposed existence. His sculptures are proposals for themselves, studies for proper versions – sampled, ready made, remixed, left open ended and exposed.

Przemek Dzienis
Przemek Dzienis is a photographer working mainly with portraiture. Using fashion industry digital manipulation techniques to create subtle and naturalistic effects his photographs operate somewhere between reinforcing and unsettling received notions of beauty. He also makes abstract sculptural installations which reinterpret the photographic moment.

Myles Painter
Working across a broad range of mediums Myles Painter’s practice deals with the history of architecturally significant sites and spaces and the relationship between architecture and art. Painter seeks to suggest alternative spatial narratives by materially and conceptually transforming the documentation and ideas of specific architectural projects.

Hannah Perry
Drawing extensively from her decidedly ‘working class’ background Hannah Perry unrelentingly questions her own identity, by creating a no-holds-barred account of her reactions to aspects of contemporary British culture such as class, femininity, alternativity and youth. Through re-presenting and re-framing Perry seeks to add nuance and complication to the naturalised and seeming predetermined meanings of ritualistic aspects of society.

Phil Root
Phil Root creates spontaneously painted works which are then assembled with found and manipulated objects to form installations. Playing upon what he describes as the ‘in between’ of gesture or thought, the paintings and installations organically form themselves creating their own connections and language. Root’s work is an ongoing exploration of representational flux, where landscapes form themselves out of still lives, an orange becomes a sun and paintings become objects.

Elizabeth Skadden
Elizabeth Skadden’s practice seeks to resurrect forgotten cultures and hidden spaces in the form of installation, film, and GPS projects. Her research process involves exploring abandoned buildings, all formats of analogue media, and the corner lot; spaces and mediums which unintentionally hold imprints of our culture. She reactivates obsolete technologies and preserves forgotten or disused spaces by engaging them again with the present.

Emily Speed
Emily Speed’s drawings, sculptures, installations and bookworks draw upon the metaphorical potential of architecture. Architecture is considered both as an emblem of humankind’s futile ambition for permanence and as container for often vital components of personal memory and identity. Working site-responsively Speed embeds a transience within her works through propping, wedging, balancing and temporarily fixing.


The A Curriculum 2010 participants were selected by:
Juan Cruz, Head of the Art Department at the Liverpool School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University, represented by Matt’s Gallery, London and Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid
Jaime Gili, an artist based in London and represented by Riflemaker. His recent exhibitions include, COMMA04 at BloombergSPACE, London, and Coalesce Happenstance, Smart, Amsterdam
Axel Lapp, Art Review's contributing editor for Berlin, Director of art publishers The Green Box, and Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Sunderland
Kate MacGarry, Director of Kate MacGarry Gallery in Vyner Street, London
Mark Waugh, Executive Director of A Foundation, London and Liverpool


You can follow the A Curriculum artists on their blog

Image by Przemek Dzienis

Studio space in the Blade Factory