Images from Landscape, feminisms, and performance residency by Natalie Raven
Rame Projects is a new artist-led project space on the Rame Peninsula in South-East Cornwall. Thanks to support from Arts Council England, FEAST, The Box, and Plymouth College of Art, we are able to offer an art writing opportunity to respond to our pilot programme. Rame Projects aims to: provide opportunities for local communities to engage with contemporary art, in both its making and exhibition; engage local students and young people with contemporary art practices that are new to them; and support and platform emerging artists based in Cornwall and Devon.
What we can offer:
- A fee of £450 to respond to three artist residencies at Rame Projects between May – September 2020. We expect one piece of writing (whether art criticism or something more experimental) for each project.
- Support and feedback on work in progress from the Rame Projects directors Beth Emily Richards and Lucy Stella Rollins, and from additional artists and arts professionals.
- Online publication of your writing via the Rame Projects website.
- Ability to work from the project space at negotiated times. The space is located on a Cornish cliff top, a short walk to beaches and local villages. It is 12m x 6m size, and suitable for work at most scales. There is basic AV equipment available in the space, 20 chairs, and a small kitchenette including good coffee machine and a small office workspace and library. The studio is on the Maker Heights site, where there is an amazing cafe, The Canteen, and an inexpensive campsite; making residential workshops a possibility.
- Whilst working in the rural environment is inspiring and creates a concentrated space for a residency, there are a couple of potential limitations. The WiFi is patchy and often requires tethering from your mobile data package. There are transport links if you don’t have a car, as there is a bus that runs to Maker Heights, or you can get the passenger ferry from Plymouth to Mount Edgecumbe and walk up to the studio which is approximately a 40 min lovely walk through the countryside. There is no additional budget to support transportation costs unfortunately.
What we would like to see:
- Applications from emerging art writers based in Devon or Cornwall. We know that these terms can be tricky to define, but if you identify as an emerging art writer, that is good enough for us. Broadly though, we are looking for art writers with significant potential and drive, but who may not have published extensively or had much support from arts organisations/publications. Educational qualifications will neither add or detract from your suitability to this residency; however, if you are currently studying we would expect you to disclose this and explain how this opportunity sits outside of the support you are given by your educational institution.
- Applications which clearly define why this opportunity will be of use to your practice at this moment in your career.
- We welcome applications from neurodiverse and disabled artists, please let us know if you have any additional access needs either for application or residency. Our project space is located on the first floor of the barracks block building, with no lift. If this would be a barrier for you, please get in contact and we can discuss how we could support you.
To apply:
Please send a CV, covering letter referencing the points above including what your written response to the art residencies may look like, and a sample of your art writing, along with a link to an online portfolio if appropriate (this can be an instagram, tumblr, or similar if you don’t have a website) to rameprojectscornwall@gmail.com
Application deadline date – 13th April Midnight
If you are unsuccessful, and sadly we can only give this opportunity to one applicant, we will endeavour to give you useful feedback where we can and link you up with any other support systems we think that could be relevant to you.