Once again, we’ve presented the complete shortlist in each category for our 2010 programme. There were a total of 25 artists across a wide range of disciplines including film, music, visual art, architecture, theatre, opera, graphic design and fashion.

We have been amazed by the work accomplished by the 2009 Residents and we are very much looking forward to be working with the 2010 Residents.

Thank you to Bombay Sapphire for the lovely cocktails!

Panel of Judges
Hannah Barry, Director of Hannah Barry Gallery/ Rukhsana Jahangir, Head of Art Department, Museum of Everything / Samuel Gassmann, Independent Curator

Walking through a metropolis as diverse and rich as the city of London, one’s eye is rarely focussed on a single object alone. Whether by choice or not, we are perpetually assimilating a never-ending stream of communication and visual stimuli. Such is the ceaseless challenge for modern urbanites, to take in and make the most of the infinite knowledge and opportunities that this city has to offer.

We are all constantly examining – a gaze that wanders from ourselves and our family, to wider concerns with society and the constructs that shape and mould us. Looking inwards, outwards and all around, the shortlisted visual artists for the 2010-2011 CIR programme explore a diverse range of both personal and objective concerns. Working across very different media, their practice engage with questions that we do not always take the time to face. Whether answers are found or not is immaterial – it is the process and journey of seeking that produces such rich and mind-lingering effects.

Rukhsana Jahangir, Curator

Alex Shepherd – Creative in Residence 2010
Alex Shepherd graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in 2009 with a BA Hon’s in Photography. Working in a wide variety of mediums including film, sculptural installation and photography, his work explores our sometimes troubled relationship with geometric form. Alex’s work often takes a very formal composition, inviting the viewer to study and rethink their conceptions and approach to form.

Study; Inwardly Degrading Square, 2010
Photogams (Resin-coated) 1/3
120cm x 150cm
£800.00 (unframed) – SOLD

Leslie Deere
Leslie Deere is a London based artist working with a variety of media. She has a BA Honours degree in Sonic Art (2004) and obtained a Masters Degree in Communications Art & Design from the Royal College of Art in 2009. Leslie has exhibited internationally with solo shows in Italy and Switzerland, and has a permanently installed sculpture in Geneva as part of a residency awarded by Galerie Analix Forever. Most recently her work has been featured at The BFI in London andTechnicity in Bologna, Italy, curated by Paul Ardenne.

Untitled, Doll, 2009
Silicon, Fiberglass, Paint, Cloth
30cm X 15cm X 15cm
Price available on request

Matt Blacker
Matt Blackler creates artworks using outmoded and labour intensive techniques that playfully hark back to a romanticised past, with his artworks often presenting the aesthetics of their production. Although primarily engaged in Sculpture, his practice encompasses printmaking, drawing and Engineering. Blackler moved to London in 2005 to study Fine Art at London Metropolitan. Since graduating he has continued his practice and been active in the East London art scene; showing regularly in London and internationally.

Work In Progress, 2010
(from ‘200 Fruitboxes’)
200 Fruitboxes, Wood Glue
£6,000.00
(Completed work sold)

Natalia Escobar
Natalia Escobar is a Colombian Artist living in the UK. She completed her BA Hons in Fine Art at Central Saint Martin’s in 2009. Through her practice Natalia explores the possibilities of light and sound to create immersive phenomenological experiences. Her work takes shape through the audience’s direct perception and at times, their misperception. She has showed her work in group shows in London and Stockholm. Natalia was nominated to the Exposure 09 Emerging Artist Award in London. Currently she is preparing for her first solo show to open in July at the Stone Squid gallery in Hastings.

1857 Geist Resevoir, 2009
£ 800.00
Sound designed by Natalia Escobar and Troy Pierce, produced by Troy Pierce

Nina Mangalanayagam
is a Swedish artist who graduated with a Masters in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 2009. She uses her personal experience and family to explore the fluidity and unfixed nature of identities that are influenced from, but also impact on, societies, families and environments. Exhibitions include BAC! at CCCB, Spain, European Night at Recontres d’Arles, France and Surfacing at European Commisson House, UK. Nina received the Jerwood Photography Award and the Photoworks graduate Award in 2005 and was short-listed for ArtsAdmin’s Decibel Visual Artist Award 2006.

Lacuna, 2009
DVD 11.02 min

Panel of judges
Camilla Morton, Fashion Writer / Narmin Mohammadi, freelance PR consultant/
Pamela Daniels, Art director, Ethical Fashion Forum /Selina Robison, brand communication producer

Dean Quinn – CIR RESIDENTS 2010- 2011
Dean Quinn hails from a small market town in Northern Ireland, setting his sights on the bright lights of London from an early age. Graduating from Central St Martin’s in 2009 after winning the coveted Woman’s Wear Designer of the Year Award, Dean presented his first collection at LFW’s Vauxhall Fashion Scout and was featured in the V&A Fashion in Motion presentation of emerging talent.

Sarah Piantadosi
Sarah Piantadosi moved to London in 2007 and began her foray into photography and fashion film collaborating with a range of artists including the dance group The House of Dangerkat and designers Nova Dando, Gabriella Marina Gonzales and Georgia Hardinge. Her work has been featured on Viceland.com, Dazed Digital, Paper Mag, Avant Mag, and films shown at London Fashion Week and Bird’s Eye View Film Festival.

Alexandra Groover
Alexandra Groover moved to London from California in order to promote her designs to the international fashion market. Utilizing her learning experiences gained in the studios of Alexander McQueen and Zandra Rhodes, she decided to launch her own company in 2008. Her Black Label collection was created to fulfill her need for expression through sculptural and textural manipulations of fabric.

Ada Zanditon
Ada Zanditon is an innovative ethical fashion designer who made her catwalk debut to an International audience at London Fashion Week in September 2009 at Vauxhall Fashion Scouts ‘Ones to Watch’ show. Since establishing her company, Ada has created the visionary album and tour wardrobes for Patrick Wolf along with commissions for Bishi, Robots in Disguise and Stephanie O’Brien of the Puppini Sisters. Ebony Bones is also a fan of Ada’s designs

Panel of Judges
Carol Crabtree, Director of Solar Management/ Dan Ford, Head of Marketing at Barclay Card Mercury Music Prize/ Kathleen Alder, Director of WildKat PR

Mr Beasley
Mr Beasley consists of Sarah Johns (Vocals) and Bobby Beasley (Production) who have been writing and performing together since 2005. Their single Neon was named record of the week on Radio 1’s One World show, with their follow up single Right as Rain achieving record of the week status on Nemone’s BBC 6 Music show. Their debut album How Do You Say? will be released on 21st March.

Daisy Chute
Daisy Chute began her performing career at the tender age of nine as the young Cosette in the touring production of Les Misérables. She has also performed as part of a 4-piece classical singing group called All Angels. Currently in her second year at King’s College London, Daisy is keen to create songs that are fresh and exciting, drawing on her past experiences.

Toby Young
Toby Young is currently studying Music at King’s College, Cambridge, as a choral scholar. His works have been performed internationally at venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, and the Cadogan Hall, by renowned orchestras and ensembles, including the LSO, the RPO, the Endymion Ensemble and the Britten Sinfonia. Toby is currently Composer-in-residence at the University of Perugi.

Peter Gregson – CIR RESIDENT 2010/2011
Peter Gregson is a cellist and pioneer of contemporary music who has performed widely in the UK and the US, at venues ranging from The Royal Albert Hall to the Twitter Offices in San Francisco. He was recently commissioned by Bowers & Wilkins and Peter Gabriel’s Real World label to record an album of original music for acoustic and electric cellos. His work has been recognised with the 2008 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for music.

Panel of Judges
Emily Man, Producer/ Maggie Ellis, Head of Production, Film London
Michael Hayden, Festival Programmer, BFI London Film Festival

Sebastian Goodwin
Sebastian Goodwin studied studied History of Art at Cambridge University. After graduating he then studied at the Polish National Film School in Lodz as a Leverhulme Scholar. He has since made short films funded by the UK Film Council and BBC Films as well as short documentaries for Channel 4. ‘The Girls’, made in 2007, was BIFA nominated for Best UK Short Film. Sebastian is now writing a feature film script.

THE GIRLS – wrote/adapted and directed by Sebastian Godwin
Based on a short story by Joyce Cary
Duration: 10 minutes.

A father comes back home to find his two young daughters playing in the garden. As dusk falls, the mood begins to darken. Funded by the UK Film Council.

Film

Destiny Ekaragha – CIR RESIDENT 2010-2011
Destiny Ekaragha studied Film and Communications at London Metropolitan University, graduating in 2003. After working as a Runner on various TV and film projects Destiny wrote and directed her first short film called ‘Tight Jeans’. The film went on to be officially selected by the 2008 Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival where it was also voted the best short film shown at the London Film Festival by The Observer

THE PARK – Written and Directed by Destiny ekaragha
Duration: 16 minutes

The Park is a coming of age tale about three teenage boys that are best friends. They talk about everything besides the problems that are truly troubling them. The stories they tell are nothing compared to the secrets that they keep.

Lilah Vandenburgh
Lilah Vandenburgh is a US born filmmaker and performer living in London. In addition to working in feature films, she’s a music video and promo director with Blackdog UK and one half of the comedy duo Vandenburgh & Shakinvosky. Her 35mm debut short, BITCH, premiered at Sundance Film Festival and went on to win multiple awards internationally.

BITCH – Directed by Lilah Vandenburgh
Duration: 15 minutes

Bitch is a pop-culture vigilante, who administers “beat-downs” to many
deserving folk. Be it your pretentious taste in music, your fugly clothes,
your insipid pseudo-intellectual rantings, or your poseur attitude, she will
find you and she will make you pay.Love is for losers, and PDA couples make BITCH want to puke razor blades. That is until she meets a guy as antisocial as she is. Can they regulate the poseurs of the world together? Only if she can win him, but she may have to kick his ass first.

Oscar Sharp
Oscar Sharp dreamed of becoming a magician until he realised that creating films was where the real magic happened. Many of his films have been shortlisted for awards including at the prestigious Raindance Festival. Oscar would now like to try his hand at music videos and Television.

Forna, written and directed by Oscar Sharp
Duration: 11 minutes
A middle-aged couple with a crumbling marriage discover an unsettling growth at the bottom of their garden

Judging Panel
Catherine McDermott, Director of Curating Contemporary Design/ Gavin Lucas, Senior writer, Creative review/ Penny A Hudd, Ex Head of School, Kingston University
Antoine Choussat and Zamir Antonio, Eat Sleep Work Play, TBWA, previous winner Creative Residency 2009

A Young Kim
Kim A Young completed a BFA in Visual Communication Design at Hong-Ik University in Seoul in 2004 and achieved an MA in Communication Art & Design in 2009 from the Royal College of Art. She currently lives and works in London. Exhibitions include: Graduation Show, IDAS Gallery, International Design School for Advanced Studies, Seoul, 2003; Map-making: Equator Project, LSO St Luke’s, London, 2008; Untold Stories, Hockney Gallery, London, 2008; Work in Progress Show, Gulbenkian Gallery, London, 2009; Final Show, Royal College of Art, London, 2009; Illustrative, International Degree Exhibition, ÏMA Design Village, Berlin, 2009; Supervisions, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK, 2010

Ah Studio
Åh [o:h] is a multi-disciplinary creative studio based in East London, established in 2008 by London College of Communication graduates Elin Svensson and Johanna Lundberg. Striving to combine thoughtful ideas with informed aesthetics to create functional design that reaches out to both the head and the heart. Applied across all disciplines to include art direction, illustration, branding, website design, motion graphics, model making and other printed matter, their approach to work is open and collaborative.

House of Jonn – CIR RESIDENT 2010/2011
Jordan Hodgson and Niall Gallacher are co-founders of House of Jon, a studio for creative engagement within the city. They studied Architecture at Leeds and Cambridge respectively then together at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2009. They have worked on an array of projects and commissions in the fields of architecture, design, research and visualization. They are currently producing new work for release at the London Festival of Architecture 2010.

Misc Projects
Euan, Jamie and Zoe are Misc. projects, a multi-disciplinary design collective working between the creative fields of Architecture and Graphic Design, exploring scenarios using illustration, film, installation, construction and the written word. Recent projects include exhibits for the Shenzhen Architecture biennale, a new build residence in Bristol and an installation in Cognac, France.

Jayne Robinson graduated from central Saint Martin’s in 2003 with an MA in Communication Design. Since then she has worked for award winning studios including Spin, Nick Bell Design and Studio Myerscough. Jayne recently established Studio Robinson, a multi-disciplinary design studio.

Panel of Judges
Michael Berg, head of events, the hosptial club / Michael McCabe, Theatre Producer
Josie Rouke, Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre/ Lisa Spirtling, Theatre Director previous winner Creative Residency 2009

Joel Horwood – CIR RESIDENT 2010/2011
Joel Horwood is an accomplished playwright whose debut, Mikey the Pikey, won the Cameron Mackintosh Award before receiving a West End option from David Pugh Ltd. Since then his career has gone from strength to strength, winning awards and enjoying sell out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and nationally. His current adaptation of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ opens at West Yorkshire Playhouse on April 16th this year.

Title: IS EVERYONE OK?
Cast: PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE and HUGH SKINNER
Duration: 20mins

Kenny Emson – Representation
Kenneth Emson has taken part in workshops with the Royal Court, Paines Plough and the National Theatre Studio. He’s also written for the Old Vic 24 Hour play (Enduring Voices; 2008) and Hampstead Theatre Start Night (The Things That Never Grew in the Garden:2009) He has had three plays premiere on the London fringe and had short plays produced at the Latitude, Hotbed, London Literature, Green Man, Hotink (NY) Festivals and at Live Theatre Newcastle, Mercury Theatre Colchester and The Public Theatre (NY). In 2009 he was the UK writer for the Old Vic US/UK Exchange programme where his new play Sonderkommando was given a reading.

Title -Breadcrumbs
Actor -Simon Darwen
Duration – 15-20minutes.

Luc Mollinger – CIR RESIDENT 2010/2011
Luc Mollinger is a director of theatre and opera. Recent work includes the live opera / film Tales of Hoffmann (Arcola Theatre) and as an Assistant Director on productions with Opera North and Salisbury Playhouse. Luc graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia and has lived in London since 2005. During his residency he will explore ways of engaging opera with new audiences and push the boundaries of presenting it using new media.

Haifa Wøhlers Olsen, vogue photographer has been working with Dean Quinn on his look book. They did a shoot last week in the gallery with stylist Katy Lassen and model Darya Kurovska.

“I don’t think you realise how important what you all did for me yesterday was and I just want to say thanks so much to you all” Dean

Ada Zanditon’s incredible catwalk show, estethica and the Ethical Fashion Forum’s LFW seasonal party held at the wonderful Hospital Club.

Ada Zanditon’s incredible catwalk show

We loved the London Fashion Week installation at The Hospital Club. Fashion craft designer Cherry Hurren individually knitted the dolls, hand-picking their spring/summer outfits especially for Fashion Week.

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