Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Gerit Christiani, North Rhine-Westphalian State Chancellery
Tamara K.E.
Tamara K.E. resists the temptation of a surrogate bureaucratic definition of art, and it is due to the unsharpness and unidentifiability of her selection system that she gets the chance to direct our attention away from media pictures towards her own personality. Having to ask ourselves inevitably in view of her works according to what principle they are combined and exhibited, we admit to ourselves that we cannot identify with the artist on a conscious or on a subconscious level. Her personality remains a mystery to us… (Excerpt from A Private View by Boris Groys)
Past Resident2011: Arts Council England
Michael Forbes
Michael Forbes’ practice includes painting, photography and sculptural installations. His work explores European and African history, and the Black Diaspora within a contemporary visual discourse. Within all his work Forbes actively pursues the notion of beauty, by attempting to understand the relationship between the brain, eyes and emotions. To this end he uses rich saturated colours, which appeals to the child within.
Michael Forbes is an artist, curator and a director of Nottingham Studios, an artist-led studio group. He has curated or had work included the following exhibitions: Because I Can in a “Pop Up” space in Nottingham, UK; The Inconsistency of Everything, New Art Exchange (NAE); Next We Change Earth, NAE; The Redemptive Beauty of Life After Death, The Bonington Gallery, Nottingham; When Men and Mountain Meet, Gallery One, Zagreb, Croatia; Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, North Wales; Celebration of Death, Photo Club, Zagreb; Strength of Feeling, a Retrospective of Sokari Douglas Camp, NEA; Once Upon a Time in the West there was Lace, Yard Gallery, Nottingham, UK.