New Contemporaries Studio Bursary with SPACE
We are thrilled to announce that Gal Lesham (NC 2017) is the 2023 recipient of New Contemporaries Studio Bursary with SPACE.
Receiving the studio bursary is an incredible opportunity for me right now. It will allow me the space to develop a new body of work with weeds as its protagonists. I hope to focus on printmaking with foraged materials as ink and realise a couple of book projects that have been slowly simmering. Having the space for a full year allows for this to be a seasonal and place-based endeavour, one which - for a migrant artist who’s also a mother now - is both an act of rooting down and a questioning of the notion of roots.
Gal Lesham
Gal Leshem is a London based artist and facilitator. Her work is developed through a site specific and research-based approach, often engaging with heritage sites, objects and plants embedded in myth, memory and folklore. Her work has been shown at: Christie's, Untitled Art Miami beach, Photo Paris, Huxley-Parlour Gallery (solo), San Mei Gallery, The Nunnery, Broadway Gallery, Jerusalem Film Festival, T J Boulting, APT Gallery, CCA Video Greenhouse at Fresh Paint Fair Tel Aviv. Gal completed her MA at the Slade school of Art and has a joint Hons BA in Fine Art & Art History from Goldsmiths University.
Rosa-Johan Uddoh (NC 2018) was the recipient of our studio bursary in partnership with SPACE, London.
Rosa-Johan Uddoh, 'Breaking Point', vinyl, paint, cork, timber, 2021. Photos by Anna Lukala. Image courtesy of the artist.
'I am so grateful for the New Contemporaries studio at SPACE. This will give me space, time and stability to be reflective and experimental in my practice, working towards longer-term goals in a sustainable way. Over the next year, I'll be using the studio to write, film, dance and make more giant sculptures that make you zoom in to issues of race and representation.'
Rosa-Johan Uddoh (b.1993, Croydon) is an interdisciplinary artist working towards radical self-love, inspired by Black feminist practice and writing. Through performance, writing and multi-media installation, she explores places, objects and celebrities in British popular culture, and their effects on self-formation.
Solo presentations include: ‘Pink tongue, brown cheek’ (currently at the Stuart Hall Library, London) and ‘Practice Makes Perfect’, Focal Point Gallery & Bluecoat (Southend and Liverpool, 2021-2022) Uddoh’s film ‘Black Poirot: Remastered’ recently premiered at Tate Modern, London and Pioneer Works, New York. Her first book ‘Practice Makes Perfect’ co-published by Bookworks and Focal Point Gallery is coming very soon in 2022.
Kate Fahey (NC 2016) was the sixth recipient of the Studio Bursary in partnership with SPACE at Deborah House, Hackney.
Kate Fahey, Feelers, 2017, copper, silicon
Kate Fahey (b. Kilkenny, Ireland) is an artist working with print, sculpture, moving image and installation. She received a BA in Fine Art Print from Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen and an MA in Fine Art Print at the Royal College of Art, London. Recent projects include Scaffold (group) at the Bomb Factory Art Foundation (2019), Fuzzy Logic (solo) at Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2018), Repetitive Strain (solo) at Lewisham Art House, London (2018) a Mead residency at the British School at Rome (2017), Going Dark (group) at Guest Projects, London (2017), and Reference Mollusk (group), at Gossamer Fog, London (2016).
Blog Post: Kate Fahey
Antonia Showering (NC 2018) was the fifth recipient of the New Contemporaries' Studio Bursary with SPACE.
Antonia Showering, Sliding Doors, 2018, oil on canvas
Antonia (b. 1991, London) completed her MFA from the Slade School of Art and BA (Hons) from City and Guilds of London Art School. Selected exhibitions in London include Out of This World , Stephen Friedman Gallery; Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery and LJMU; In The Company Of , TJ Boulting; The present is already gone, Chalton Gallery; Mark Shand's Adventures and Curiosities, Hauser and Wirth, and Great Women Artists, Mother. She has also shown abroad at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen and in a two person show with Baert Gallery in Los Angeles.
Blog Post #1: Antonia Showering
Blog Post #2: Antonia Showering
Katie Schwab (NC 2015) was the fourth recipient of the New Contemporaries' Studio Bursary with SPACE.
Katie Schwab, Leftovers
Katie completed her MFA at The Glasgow School of Art in 2015. Recent projects include 'Atrium Commissions', mima, Middlesbrough (2017); 'A Portable Mural', Serpentine Galleries, London (2017); 'Jerwood Solo Presentations', Jerwood Space, London (2016); 'Making the Bed, Laying the Table', Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow (2016) and 'Together in a Room', Collective, Edinburgh (2016). Recent workshops include We Are Family, Arnolfini, Bristol (2017); Dear Friends, Serpentine Galleries, London (2016) and WorkHands, Tate Britain, London (2014). http://www.katieschwab.com/
Andrea Zucchini (NC 2015) was the third recipient of the New Contemporaries' Studio Bursary with SPACE.
Andrea Zucchini, Twice Born
Zucchini completed an MA Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London in 2015 and has recently had solo exhibitions at Arco Madrid, 2017, Tenderpixel, London, 2016 and a two-person show with Sam Smith at Assembly Point, London, 2016. http://www.andreazucchini.co.uk
Matt Copson (NC 2015) was the first recipient of the New Contemporaries’ Studio Bursary with SPACE.
Matt Copson, Reynard With A Vengeance
Matt studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. Recent exhibitions include a solo show entitled ‘Reynard’s Fundament’ at Tramps, London and a show at the Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates, Bloomberg New Contemporaries at The ICA, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, The World Museum for the Liverpool Biennial (2014) and ’Escape Routes: Benedict Drew invites…’, LIMBO, Margate (2014). He is co-editor of expanded magazine Da Thirst. www.mattcopson.com
