With Battersea Arts Centre set to unveil nine artists’ bedrooms, Matt Trueman has a look around and shares his first thoughts.
Artist in residence’ is a phrase that gets bandied about a lot. But when artists talk of a home they often mean their workplace too – somewhere that offers support and a stage for their work – while ‘artists in residence’ themselves typically just join the payroll of an institution, rather than actually shack up there. Either way, art has never been confined to a nine-to-five. What if these terms meant something more?
Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) is about to unveil nine artists’ bedrooms, spread across three floors of its venue – a sprawling, red-brick former town hall built in 1893. The initial inspiration was what BAC artistic director David Jubb calls “the third glass of wine idea”... Keep reading on The Guardian
Artist in residence’ is a phrase that gets bandied about a lot. But when artists talk of a home they often mean their workplace too – somewhere that offers support and a stage for their work – while ‘artists in residence’ themselves typically just join the payroll of an institution, rather than actually shack up there. Either way, art has never been confined to a nine-to-five. What if these terms meant something more?
Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) is about to unveil nine artists’ bedrooms, spread across three floors of its venue – a sprawling, red-brick former town hall built in 1893. The initial inspiration was what BAC artistic director David Jubb calls “the third glass of wine idea”... Keep reading on The Guardian