Added Benefits
There have been outputs by individual artists in POST that have stemmed from or been supported by their work in TRADING STATION including:
· Robyn Woolston was awarded the Liverpool Art Prize, which resulted in a solo exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery March – June 2013. It features images taken during her residency in a publication that will form part of the permanent Artists Bookwork collection at the Walker gallery. They are also brokering a relationship with the Royal Society of Artists in terms of further acquisitions.
· Robyn Woolston has been commissioned by Eden Arts, with the work she is producing there being influenced by the working methods she is developing during TRADING STATION.
· Claire Weetman was awarded the METAL international residency to Shanghai. Her proposal for this residency included an idea to develop Watermark in a public square in Shanghai, and was supported by critical research that she had carried out at the libraries of SALT art gallery in Istanbul.
· Claire Weetman was selected to exhibit in Trace, an exhibition by Context Arts at Motorcade/Flashparade in Bristol. At that exhibition she produced three new manifestations of Watermark to audiences in both the gallery and to passers by on the street.
· Susan Meyerhoff Sharples exhibited her Altered Images at 5533 gallery in Istanbul during her residency in the city.
· Robyn Woolston provided the cover image to the Green Party magazine as part of a special Arts and Ecology issue. This work has been directly influenced by the research and development period completed during her residency in Istanbul
· Claire Weetman has been invited to exhibit her work ‘Watermark’ as a 4-channel video installation at Neo:Gallery 22 in Bolton.
· Claire Weetman has been approached by two artist curators to be included in their proposals for future exhibitions as a result of them seeing her ‘Watermark’ work.
· Susan Meyerhoff Sharples had her video work ‘Unpick/Graft’ selected to be shown during the Deva Shorts events in Chester in March 2013.
· Cecilia Kinnear will be moving to Istanbul and settling up her art practice in June 2013, having left her management job at John Lewis. The project has had a profound impact on her practice and overall life. Though other things have contributed to this significant change, it is a result of TRADING STATION and the relationships developed that have led her to choose Istanbul as the place to develop the next stage of her practice.
