We are delighted to announce that NC2021 artist Asuf Ishaq has been selected as the recipient of New Contemporaries residency opportunity in partnership with Hospitalfield, Angus.
The Hospitalfield residency has come at a perfect time, and I am thankful to be selected. I plan to use the time to work on my project which I started a year ago, resurrection of lost time through the body, architectural space and remembering. Earlier this year I visited my abandoned family house in Pakistan and gathered sound recordings of resonance and atmosphere to activate the space. I plan to work through my recordings and experiment with sound as sculpture, and with ideas of inflating and deflating spaces.
Asuf Ishaq
Asuf Ishaq’s practice examines the post-colonial body as an archive and historical geographical places as sites of cultural and political meaning. Ishaq investigates themes of migration, embodiment, transformation, displacement, and memory. Excavating personal archives and testimonies of his family's migration experience, re-thinking traumatic episodes in history, where meaningful knowledge is located. Ishaq works with sculpture, sound, images, text, language, moving image and installations.
Asuf completed his MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College of Art in 2020. Recent exhibitions and awards include; Solo exhibition Articles of Home, Reid Gallery, Glasgow (2023), Group exhibitions, The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, (2022), Image Behaviour, ICA (2022), New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London (2021/22), Groundings (online film screening), Goldsmiths CCA, London (2021), London Grads, Saatchi Gallery, London (2020).
Lana Locke, Making (Babies), 2020, Video still
Lana Locke (NC 2013 and 2016) is an artist practising across a range of media, including installation, sculpture and video. She is interested in exploring the precariousness of human and non-human life in the context our current political and ecological predicament. She draws on her direct personal experience and positionality as a starting point to explore wider ranging, intersectional contexts – from the gendered subjugations of motherhood to confronting White privilege and colonial and ecological violence.
I am so thrilled to have the opportunity to undertake this exciting residency at Hospitalfield. During the residency I plan to focus on researching a new artist’s film about swimming, diversity and pollution in the UK. I am particularly interested to engage with Hospitalfield’s programming in relation to water, its local environment and communities. I would also like to uncover more about recent and historical water pollution events that have occurred in Hospitalfield and the surrounding areas.
She has had solo exhibitions at LUNGLEY Gallery (2019, 2020 and 2023), Liddicoat & Goldhill project space (2018), DOLPH Projects, (2016) and Schwartz Gallery (2014). She has exhibited in group exhibitions at ADH Gallery (2023), Shtager & Shch (2023), Hales Gallery (2022), National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, Taiwan (2021), OOF Gallery (2021), Kingston Museum (2019), MOCA Taipei, Taiwan (2018), the Nunnery Gallery (2018) and Block 336 (2015).
Blog Post: Lana Locke
Alicia Reyes McNamara, Eye to eye, 2020, pastel and coloured pencils
Alicia Reyes McNamara (NC Alumni 2016) was the fourth recipient of our Studio Residency in partnership with Hospitalfield, Angus.
I will use my time during Hospitalfield Studio Residency to research non-binary and gender variance present within Aztec and Mesoamerican culture, and use these findings to inspire a new body of work.
Alicia completed her MFA at University of Oxford Ruskin School of Art in 2016. Her work has been included in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016. She was soon after awarded the South London Gallery Graduate Residency 2016-17. Alicia recently had a solo exhibition at Niru Ratnam Gallery and currently have one in St Carthage Hall at Lismore Castle. She will also be part of The London Open 2022 at Whitechapel Gallery.
Blog Post: Alicia Reyes McNamara
Jasmine Johnson, More than two: Episode 3, 2018, Almanac, London. Image: Oskar Proctor.
Jasmine Johnson (NC Alumni 2015) was third recipient of the Studio Residency and Bursary with New Contemporaries and Hospitalfield, Angus. Jasmine’s work incorporates video, drawing, installation, sound and performance to produce increasingly ambitious portraits of globally dispersed individuals. Johnson's solo presentations include Barbican FreeStage; Almanac; Jerwood Project Space; ANDOR Gallery, with MoreUtopia! (all London); DeVos Museum with Rachel Pimm (Michigan); ASI & CCI Fabrika (Moscow) and Eddie Peake’s Hymn Programme (Online). Group presentations include the Barbican Level G; Government Art Collection (all London); Bloomberg New Contemporaries (UK) Daata Editions (online); Place des Arts (Montreal). Her work has been screened at Chisenhale Gallery, ICA, Jerwood Presents – Genesis Cinema and Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius). She works as a visiting lecturer at Nottingham Trent University.
Marie Jacotey, YES, 2016-17, Dry pastel on Japanese paper, 69 x 94 cm
Marie Jacotey (NC Alumni 2014) was the second recipient of New Contemporaries' studio residency and bursary with Hospitalfield. Marie completed her MA in Printmaking from the Royal College ofArt, London in 2013. Recent solo and group exhibitions include ‘Architectural Ethnography: Portraits on Livelihood’, Japan Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2018); ‘Morning Defeats’, Hannah Barry Gallery, London (2017); ‘Walled garden in an insane Eden’, Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome (2017); and ‘Rhythm and depiction’, Centre for Recent Drawing, London (2016). Jacotey was also commissioned by Art on the Undergroundto design the new night tube map cover for TFL and in 2015 worked with Assemble’s Granby Workshop to produce a set of limited edition digital prints. Her work can be found in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Alice Browne, installation view of STUDIO VISIT, 2017, Eduardo Secci Gallery, Florence. Courtesy of the artist and Eduardo Secci Gallery
Alice Browne (NC Alumni 2010) was the first recipient of the New Contemporaries' Studio Residency and Bursary with Hospitalfield. Browne completed a BA Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon College of Art (2009) and her MA Fine Art Painting at the Royal College of Art (2016). Solo shows include Limoncello, London, UK (2016); OUTPOST, Norwich, UK (2015); Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, NO (2014); Limoncello, London, UK and annarumma, Naples, IT (both 2013), and The China Shop, Oxford, UK and Supercollider, Blackpool, UK (both 2012).
