Some corner.

It’s already two weeks into my three month residency at the Curious Projects Space in Eastbourne, and if I am to write a blog about my experiences I’d better start sooner rather than later.
I wanted to begin by introducing myself. I’m Alice Lunt and have been making work for twenty-something years. I studied Sculpture at Brighton, graduating in 1993 with a First. During my student years I began making site-specific installations and one-to-one performances in alternative spaces.
After my Degree I moved back to London and completed an MA at Chelsea. This was a problematic year for me on many levels and I became disenchanted/confused/lost. The years that followed I would term “the Wilderness years”, a time in which I made work only sporadically. From 2000 onwards I began to concentrate on the Live art aspect of my work and was again working with momentum, when in2005 I became pregnant with my first child and chose to concentrate on being a Mother to her. My art practice up to that point had been implicitly concerned with the Mother-Child relationship in particular and with other interpersonal relationships behind closed doors and in the name of love, in general.
I withdrew to Brighton and immersed myself in family life and it wasn’t until the miscarriage of my third child and the break-down of my marriage that I began to make work again. I have to admit, pain inspires me like nothing else.
So, my work is still about that pain found in human relationships when we profess to “love”, to “care for”. Not necessarily in an explicit way. Nor is the rage and disappointment for-grounded in the work; rather it runs like an undercurrent through it; both in the way I handle objects and materials and in the kinds of one-to-one encounters I choose to initiate in my performances. I am interested in the oscillation between violence and tenderness that occurs in intimacy, in interaction with others and with things-as-metaphors-for-others-and-self.

Curious Projects opened  affordable studios for artists in Eastbourne in January 2015.  More than just working spaces, we aim to create a platform for fostering collaboration, encouraging mutual support, and the cross-pollination of ideas across artistic disciplines.

As part of this aspiration, one of the studios is kept as a temporary residency space in which selected artists at any stage of their careers will come to work on a specific project for a short period of time. Their working process will be documented and kept as an archive of their time at Curious Projects; and their work will culminate in a well-publicised exhibition marking the end of the residency. We hope that this format will be useful in providing focus and a framework for artists interested in making their work and working process more public. We are particularly keen to support work that could provide fuel for discussions on the interplay (or perhaps disjunction) between making and thinking.

Alice Lunt (http://walkintomyparlour.com) is the first artist in residence at Curious Projects and we look forward to following the development of her work in the space.

http://www.curious-projects.co.uk