Lab Projects: artists residency programme
David Birkin, Walter Hugo, and Tess Hurrell are the selected artists for Four Corners' new production-led residency programme 2012.
The artists have been working at Four Corners since June 2012. The final work will be shown in an exhibition in Four Corners' Gallery, opening on 16th November. Each artist presented their work in progress at a Photoforum event in October, and will participate in a one-day symposium.
The residencies provided up to £5,000 of Four Corners’ and on-site partner facilities, alongside an artists' fee. The programme is funded through the Arts Council’s Grants for the Arts.
David Birkin is developing a new body of film and photographic work, which refers to ideas of subjectivity, visibility and constructed identity in the context of representations of war. More on David's work...
Walter Hugo is producing a series of hand-tinted tintypes of local street kids, using a room size camera in Four Corners’ gallery, with a 19th century giant lens. The long camera exposures will present the subjects in a new and unusual format. More on Walter's work...
Tess Hurrell is creating a moving image piece, comprised of photographs in and around Hackney’s waterways, to be printed in Four Corners’ darkroom. More on Tess's work...
The projects were selected by an external panel comprising Stephen Gill, photographer; Gayle Chong Kwan, artist; and Gill Henderson, Project Director of House of Illustration.
