Artists Kelly Best and Georgie Grace are the two members of g39’s Wales Artists Resource Programme (WARP) and Eastside Projects’ Extra Special People (ESP) associate schemes to have been selected for Jerwood Encounters: 3-Phase.
This major professional development opportunity will see the artists develop new works and receive substantial exposure through a series of exhibitions over the course of 2015.
A collaboration between Birmingham’s Eastside Projects, Cardiff’s g39 and Jerwood Charitable Foundation through its London-based gallery programme Jerwood Visual Arts, 3-Phase offers the early career artists curatorial and practical support. Each artist will have solo exhibitions at Eastside Projects and g39 and a joint exhibition at Jerwood Space.
The artists were selected from over 90 applications. Cardiff-based Best, a graduate from Kingston University, has an expanded drawing practice that takes on board sculptural concerns. Grace, who is based in Cambridge and studied at Cambridge School of Art, has a practice that sits between the still and moving image. The two artists will evolve and develop new works between each exhibition.
Quality and breadth
“As a litmus test of the quality and breadth of artists’ ideas, we left the selection process feeling invigorated and excited,” said Shonagh Manson, director, Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
“Kelly and Georgie’s work stood out for the rigour and careful articulation of their ideas. It was also clear to the panel the speed with which their practice has been developing and deepening to date. With the support and resources of this project we hope to be able to accelerate this still further.”
Gavin Wade, director, Eastside Projects, said: “As more artists develop careers in a growing number of art scenes around the UK it is vital that projects such as 3-Phase exist.
“We have been able to bring together three dynamic enabling organisations who share a commitment to art and artistic practice as a valuable and useful part of society, and 3-Phase is a concentrated effort to commission two artists to make the most of their potential.”
Jerwood Encounters: 3-Phase, exhibition dates: 31 January – 28 February & 6 March – 11 April 2015 (Eastside Projects, Birmingham), 13 May – 21 June 2015 (Jerwood Space, London) and November – December 2015 (g39, Cardiff)
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