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International Fellowships, Research Residencies & Bursaries

Bursaries

Bursaries were awarded in Summer 2002 to assist four artists in the region to make new work. There was no brief except that the work should not depend on a gallery exhibition and was to be presented by Summer 2003. The Bursaries were £2000 each.

Anna Cady - using pinhole cameras constructed out of the furniture of her own home, made images of her domestic space for billboards in Winchester and a website, annacady.com, which also incorporated stories and a virtual tour of Winchester. One image was printed for a very large billboard in the city centre and the website was launched in July 2003.

Lou Spence - Light Sky , panoramic projections, where the questionable notions of nature and natural are raised by the burning glow of light pollution in the night sky. The scenes become strangely redolent of a pictorial sunset image, presenting the viewer with a contradiction to conventional expectations of rural landscape imagery.
Exhibited with a specially made sound track by Mark Spence at the Xchange Gallery, Oxford. Curated by Susie Medley, Fotonet for Oxford Artweeks 2003.

Anna Fox - Dreamday a project with Selborne village junior school 2003, a book is to be published. Online exhibition on fotonet.org.uk

Mar Mateo - The Road . Mar Mateo was the photographer with a multidisciplinary project that investigated the buildings, history and inhabitants of a typical inner city residential road.
Exhibition and project installation Millais Gallery, Southampton, May 2003
Online exhibition on fotonet.org.uk

Richard Billingham - Landscapes
A collaboration with Artsway, New Forest, Hampshire
New work made during an Artsway residency autumn 2003 and exhibited at Artsway Spring 2004. Fotonet bursary £2000.

Fotonet Research Residencies 2002/3

New Towns in the South of England
Clare Strand - "Signs of a Struggle"
John Kippin - "A Home in the Country"

Precis of the brief
Two commissions to research and produce new photographic work in one or more of the new towns in the south of England. The aim is to produce two online exhibitions for fotonet.org.uk which will launch a new exhibition section for the Fotonet website.

The artists are encouraged to look beyond the urban exteriors and study the new towns from new perspectives. The new work should be an individual response to looking at and learning more about these particular urban environments.
The Research Residencies were £3000 each.

View the online exhibitions

Photographs from "A Home in the Country" by John Kippin are being exhibited in two exhibitions during the autumn 2004.
The House in the Middle. Photographs of interior design in a nuclear age, a Photoworks exhibition in association with the Towner Art Gallery.
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne. October 16 - December 12 2004
Festival of the Image, Swindon. October/November 2004

The International Oxford Brookes/Pitt Rivers Museum Fine Art Visiting Fellow in collaboration with Fotonet, 2004

Wong Hoy Cheong, March - May 2004
Slight Shifts . Installation in the Pitt Rivers Museum June, July 2004
Wong Hoy Cheong created a coloured light installation, which worked on time switches, transforming the space and illuminating chosen cases and objects.
Online exhibition on www.fotonet.org.uk
This prestigious biennial fellowship is the first of a series of creative research collaborations between Oxford Brookes and the Pitt Rivers Museum which has a long tradition of working with artists. Fotonet will retain a working relationship with this partnership and will contribute to the next photographic based Fellowship.

Open Photography Exhibitions

These exhibitions were organised in collaboration with the galleries and the briefs for entry emphasized contemporary photography.
The selection for exhibition was stringent which resulted in very good group exhibitions of contemporary work.

Open Lens at Forest Arts, New Milton December 1 2000 - January 20 2001
Selected by: Dave Brittain, Dave Hazel , Susie Medley, Steve McLauren
Prizewinners :- Paul Bevan, Christian Glaeser, Anna Cady

Open Shutter at South Hill Park, Bracknell May 25 - June 30 2002
Selected by: Melanie Manchot, Anna Fox, Susie Medley, Eluned Myhre
Prizewinners :- Roma Tearne, Lou Spence, Lucy Dickens, Lucy Walpole, Commended: Jos Boys, Gunilla Treen

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