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Home-rearing: Home from Home? with Dr. Susan Jones

Wednesday 19 April 2pm - 3pm NewBridge Gallery

Join this conversation and Q&A between Kitt and Dr Susan Jones, as they discuss fair, accessible and equitable residencies with a particular look at parent artists and disabled artists.

Wednesday 19 April 

2pm – 3pm 

Cinema Room (off The NewBridge Project Gallery space) 

Can you / should you / would you want to feel “at home” on an artist residency? Or is that missing the point(s)?!

Join this conversation and Q&A between Kitt and Dr Susan Jones, as they discuss fair, accessible and equitable residencies with a particular look at parent artists and disabled artists.

What elements of “home” are / can be particularly important to artist parents and disabled artists when applying for / planning / being part of artist residencies? Maybe there is “home” stuff you definitely don’t want on a residency? What are the “exchange rates” of an artist residency? What do artists expect from organisations who offer these opportunities and what do artists want to offer to venues who host residencies?

Ticketed event, limited capacity. To book email Beth Stead, project coordinator, on info.ladykitt@gmail.com with the subject: “Home from home? Session booking”.

About Dr. Susan Jones

Susan Jones is an independent arts researcher working across academia and arts industries. Her 2019 Manchester Metropolitan University doctorate used qualitative methodologies to examine arts policy and artists’ livelihoods interrelationships. Studies since 2020 have focused on pandemic circumstances and their impacts on artists’ social realities. As a-n The Artists Information Company’s Director until 2014 she led realisation by artists of UK-wide initiatives such as Networking Artists’ Networks (NAN) and the Paying artists campaign.

Her writing has been published by Art Review, Art Monthly, Arts Professional, Corridor 8, Cultural Trends, Double Negative, The Guardian, Sluice, TransArtists and a-n The Artists Information Company. Her presentations include Portrait of the Artist, West Midlands Cultural Leadership Board; Myths, motility and mechanisms, Anglia Ruskin University; Finding freedom: artists’ pandemic stories, CAMP; Confronting disturbance: artists’ livelihoods in a Covid world at The Coast Is Queer, Blackpool; Getting ahead: strategies for artists’ livelihoods, CVAN Equity Policy Group; Could do better: the exceptional impact of COVID-19 emergency measures on visual artists with chronic conditions (with Vishalakshi Roy) at Another Artworld: Manifestations and Conditions of Equity in Visual Arts, Belgrade; Artists’ livelihoods: prospects and barriers, Loughborough University MA Creative Industries and What’s best for artists’ livelihoods? University of Huddersfield/Temporary Contemporary.

www.padwickjonesarts.co.uk

About Home-rearing

Wednesday 5 April – Saturday 29 April

12pm – 5pm (some event times may vary!)

The NewBridge Project Gallery space

Throughout April, Kitt and their two children Finn & Ada, will be working in our gallery every day we are open. During this time, they are inviting NewBridge communities to join them in “Home-rearing”, an 18th century English phrase for a community building a barn or dwelling together.

Each day will offer something slightly different including drop-in activities, bookable workshops, sound baths, drag performances, talks, chats and parties.

Events Exhibitions

The NewBridge Project
Shieldfield Centre
4-8 Clarence Walk (off Stoddart Street)
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 1AL

 

The NewBridge Project is accessible. You can find out more here, or feel free to contact us prior to visiting if you require additional information regarding access and facilities.