Past Residents

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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 Resident
2011: 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.

Past Resident
2010: ACC - Asian Cultural Council

Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai)

Jiandyin are interdisciplinary collaborative artists from Thailand. Pornpilai Meemalai received her MA from School of Applied Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK. Jiradej Meemalai received his MFA (Sculpture) from Faculty of Decorative Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Pornpilai is a 2008 recipient of Silp Bhirasri Creativity Grant of Silpakorn University, Thailand. Jiradej was awarded several competitions including 46th National Art Competition, 2000 and the Kasikorn Bank Group Contemporary Art Competitions, 2000. He was artist in residence at Art Omi International Art Center, 2008. They received a fellowship grant award from the Asian Cultural Council, New York and they were artists-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. Jiandyin have participated in The Penang Island Sculpture Project, Penang Island, Malaysia and Art Live World, Chair and the Maiden Gallery, New York and will have a solo exhibition at Kokoro Studio, San Francisco, California.

Through their married life they discovered artistic value while searching for resolution for their disputes. Their works are models for looking at the tension in human relationships. They also project an awareness of ‘living together as an adaptation’ in the rapidly globalizing world that we live in. In 2010, they began a participation project called Dialogue. It is an ongoing collaborative drawing of Thai / Thai American couples who live in United States.