We are
excited to announce the four selected artists for the second half of INCUBE8
2012:
Congratulations
Julian Claxton, Johana Hartwig, Samuel Hasler and Laura Reeves!
These were
four of the strongest proposals we received and we are eager to see how they
transform Motorcade/FlashParade during four intensive back-to-back shows this
November.
The
proposals were selected by Megan Wakefield, Toby Huddlestone and Steven Paige
who we would like to thank for an insightful, informative and enjoyable day.
Their range of expertise made for thorough discussions with each application
examined in depth. With many excellent proposals this was by no means an easy
task and we recognise the difficulty the panel had in making their selection.
We are delighted with their final choices and look forward to welcoming the
selected artists for a diverse range of shows this autumn.
We’d also
like to thank every artist who applied. We appreciate the time and effort spent
in writing a proposal and we hope we have gone some way to acknowledging this
by providing each applicant with some constructive feedback and pointers from
the panel.
Bring on
November!
Julian
Claxton lives and works in Bristol. He graduated from UWE in 2002
and has since co-founded and co-directed Plan 9, established the Creed
Art Club and initiated Spike Island's Test Space. He was a member of the
Spike Island Interpretation Group, including the design of Curating Degree
Zero. Claxton has exhibited widely under a number of personas in the UK and,
recently, in the United States. Key recent unattributed/virtual projects
include: Psychic Research, Kunte Howell-Ojidade (outsider artist), Creed Wall (collector/dealer),
Gerard De Verre (recently dead artist), Mannequin Defense Caucus (a dumb
insurrection), CITES (Convention on IllegalTrade in Extraterrestrial Species).
Johana Hartwig is an
interdisciplinary artist based in Cardiff, working predominantly with video.
Hartwig has a background in sculpture and a form-led approach to the making of
film. Graduating in 2001 from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff she
has exhibited widely, most recently at the Oriel Canfas Gallery, Cardiff.
Hartwigs’ films possess strong visual narratives that feed from intuitive,
emotive responses to environmental quirks, sensual objects, obsessional
patterns, flux anthropomorphism and humour.
Sam Hasler is a visual
artist based in Cardiff . He has made performance and installation work across
the UK in Galleries and alternative spaces. He has exhibited at EXPO festival
in Nottingham, National Review of live art in Glasgow and as part of the
'if...' series at g39 in Cardiff. His work uses drawing and writing
within a structure that allows decision making and creative responses to space,
often within the performance.
Laura
Reeves grew up in
the South West and moved to Cardiff to study Fine Art specialising in
sculpture. She recently graduated with a first, receiving the Eisteddfod Young
Artist Scholarship of 2012, and has exhibited widely amongst her peers. Reeves
works as studio assistant to Sean Edwards producing works that have been shown
at Limoncello, Tanya Leighton and Spike Island galleries.
INCUBE8 is
supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
