Victoria Malcolm
8th September - 26th November
Biography
Victoria Malcolm happened to be born in Tunisia, North Africa while her Scots father was serving as a diplomat.Her Pretoria-born mother returned to live in Capetown in the late 60s, bringing Victoria from London to school at Rustenburg Junior and High. A regular pupil at the Frank Joubert, she left South Africa in '74 to study painting at Hammersmith College of Art, where the emphasis was on observational drawing. Victoria moved to Wales in the 80s and developed her drawing practice whilst studying colour and abstraction with the Welsh landscape painter Mary Lloyd Jones. Her work was first selected for the National Eisteddfod in 1997, followed by a solo show , an installation of paintings in 360 degrees of vista from a nearby highpoint, at Oriel Myrddin Regional Gallery in Carmarthen in 2002. Wanting to extend and refresh her practice by returning to higher studies, Victoria graduated with a 1st class BA(Hons) in 2009, winning the Glamorgan University Student Art Purchase Prize award and being selected again for the National Eisteddfod 2010, shortly before this Greatmore residency.
Her current work returns to figuration based on family album and related photographic imagery, specifically connected to her South African background. This residency will be her first sustained working period in Capetown for over 35 years and will she hopes it will provide a rich archive of research material investigating the myriad of human micro-narratives that shape her lifestory.Victoria intends to work with documentation in photography and film both found and generated and is particularly interested to collaborate with photojournalists during the residency but has an interest in performance development. Her formative years in South African largely formed her political instincts; a driving force in activities to do with equality and cooperation. Victoria is a founder and director of an artist-led gallery in her hometown Carmarthen and recently ran 2 workshops on behalf of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Young Brits at Art Award.
Self funded
Tom Fleming and Edwin Pennicott
8th September - 26th November
Biography
The artists met at Chelsea College of Art in 2001 whilst both studying Sculpture, and began working together in late 2002. Their first major piece as a collaboration was Office (2003), an entirely fabricated office space constructed in false perspective in which the artists performed the roles of workers carrying out mundane and repetitive tasks whilst being watched by the viewer via a CCTV camera linked to a monitor outside the space. Both humorous the comic effect produced by the artists moving about within the false perspective environment as well as a comment on the perceived monotony and boredom inherent in the stereotypical office job and notions of work in general, the piece set up many of the themes that still dominate the artists practice.
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Witty Nyide
13th September - 26th November
Biography
Ms Nyide is currently studying towards her Masters of Arts (Art History) through the University of KwaZulu Natal. In her recent work she is fascinated by the play between ‘staged’ rituals of becoming. She makes social commentary on what makes or prevent us from being as rooted in ‘moulded’ individualisms, particularly reflecting as a young woman born, schooled and cultured in the outskirts of Bulwer (near Underberg).
In these works, she uses the duplicative quality of printmaking as her main language.
For the past two years and a half, she has worked at Caversham Centre for Artists and Writers as Programmes Manager. Before this, Whilst completing her B-Tech- Fine Art Degree at the Durban University of Technology in 2007, Ms Nyide was appointed to tutor students in the extended programme. She assisted them in addressing academic issues related to Art Theory 1. In 2007 and 2008, she taught Drawing and Painting to the African Arts Centre”s Velobala Saturday art classes, which is also where she obtained her own art development when she joined the class in 2003.
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Andy Williams
Biography
Andy Williams is a resident from Montreal,Canada.He was born in Derbyshire,England,until the age of 12.Since then he has lived in 3 different continents. He's a multidiscplinarian artist who has been involved in mediums such as video installations,set designs,short films,collages,and painting.Not too mention his skills as an internationally known deejay and radio host for 30 years and counting.
Recently he has been involved in interior design modalities from the mid century focusing on Scandinavian designs. He was selected by the Canadian National Film Board to install a video montage(under his mentor Film-maker Mark Morgenstern),with an influx of video machines from various time periods to display his work in SOUNDIES,which is a format used in the 40's and 50's known nowadays as Jukebox films.Williams has used this medium to synchronize sound relating to his archival project pertaining to the diaspora of jazz.
Since attending Graduate School at Goddard College in Vermont,he has decided to use music as an educational tool.
What he plans to do at Greatmore's Art Studios in Cape Town,South Africa, is a triptych on Jazz and Apartheid. The idea was inspired by Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States of America,connecting the dots of 2 oppressive states,which has created an uproar across the globe. Williams believes Art and Music are important mediums which can relay messages that everyone can hear,and people can voice their own opinions in the comfort of their own psyche.
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