Paul Bonnington
Archaeologist with the National Trust in West Penwith, Cornwall. Paul is an iron age specialist who approaches archaeology from an ethnographical perspective.
will present work from recent projects involving a variety of communities from the village of Allenheads in Northumberland to the remote Japanese village of Toge. Central to his work is an ongoing questioning of the role artist as a 'useful agent' for social good.
Coates' practice questions how we perceive humaness through imagined non-human realities. An extensive knowledge and understanding of british wildlife has led him to create unique interpretations of the natural world and its evolving relationship with society.
Coates studied at the Royal Academy of Arts, 1990-93. Recent solo exhibitions include Marcus Coates, Whitechapel Gallery, London 2007. Dawn Chorus, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead 2007. Coates has staged performances at the Serpentine, Barbican and Hayward Galleries, London 2007 aswell as in Japan, Norway and Israel. He was selected for British Art Show 6 and more recently for the European Biennale, Manifesta 7 in Italy.
Caitlin DeSilvey
works on questions of place, memory, and meaning as a lecturer in cultural and historical geography at the University of Exeter-Cornwall. Her research sites include derelict settlements in the American West, accidental archives and museums, industrial ruins, and, most recently, coastal heritage properties threatened by the effects of sea level rise.
Jennie Savage
has a research based practice which draws on documentary techniques. She has a particular interest in exploring the place between public spaces, town planning, constructed landscapes and the human story: the lived lives and personal narratives connected to those sites. Working through a process that uses archiving and intervention she seeks to map the other life of a place or community in order to reveal a complex situation, a micro- structure or simply an unheard voice.
Emilia Telese
Emilia Telese is an Italian born UK-based practicing artist. Graduated in Painting in 1996 from the Fine Arts Academy in Florence , her practice spans several art forms, from interactive and body-responsive technology, film and live art to installation and public art. Emilia Telese's practice deals with political and social debate, non-verbal communication and the questioning and deconstruction of clichés. She has exhibited worldwide since 1994, including work at Ars Electronica, ZKM, the 2005 Venice Biennale and the Freud Museum, London, amongst others. Collaborations include work with over 30 art institutions and organisations, amongst which Royal College of Arts, University of Brighton, Liverpool University, Artquest, FilmLondon, University of The Arts London, and Fabrica.
Emilia Telese combines her arts practice with her role as Artists' Networks Coordinator for a-n The Artists' Information Company within the Networking Artists' Networks (NAN) initiative and work with UK and international arts organizations as an independent artists' trainer specialised in professional development advice for artists. The NAN initiative facilitates exchange, dialogue and collaboration amongst visual artists, whatever their practice and location. Through its programme of artists' bursaries, events and research it offers a focus for networking and feedback promoting the value of artists' initiatives.
NAN and AIR are intitiatives that reflect a-n's commitment to representation and advocacy for practicing artists in the UK. AIR - Artists' Interaction and Representation is a membership scheme for practising visual and applied artists that provides them with professional benefits and opportunities to represent their aspirations and concerns to others.
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