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Building on my experience of organising Overlay and running public workshops during the Henry Moore Studio residency and the Research Festival, I have applied for opportunities that would, if I am successful, help with sustaining my practice beyond my MA. Ultimately, I aim to run my own studio, and these opportunities will help me gain practical experience in several areas that are vital to my objective. For example, one award that I applied for supports studio rental and tools (ex.welding equipment), while another offers hands-on experience in exhibition and public programme design, two elemental parts of my future plans.
Weatherbys Open Call
I applied for an exhibition opportunity, organised by Weatherbys. The exhibition invites Camberwell Fine Art students to display their work at Weatherbys’ offices from November 2025 to May 2026.
I proposed my series of hard-ground etching embossments, Transferences, 2025. I am interested in how exhibiting outside a ‘white cube’ environment might influence the reading of the work, and how these print-sculptures might enter into dialogue with peers’ works in a lobby setting, where audiences encounter the pieces during moments of waiting. This context connects to my ongoing exploration of waiting as a condition of longing to return home.
Mercer’s Arts Award 2025
In addition, I applied for the Mercer’s Arts Award 2025. The scholarship supports graduates in bridging the gap between academic study and professional career, providing funding for studio rental, tools of the trade purchases, further tuition and training fees etc.
Mead Fellowship Awards 2026
I also began outlining a project proposal for Mead Fellowship Awards 2026, which open for applications in December 2025. The award supports the realisation of ambitious projects during 2026.
My initial idea is to develop an exhibition accompanied by a public programme of workshops and artist talks that explore how materials can hold the tension between memory and forgetting. I am interested in how ideas of home and belonging are shaped by power, mobility, and rupture. Through working with transfiguration and trace, I want to reflect on how gestures of repair might create spaces for collective remembering and imagined belonging.
