Jamie Ashforth 2023

Jamie Ashforth
Grey Zone: Architectures of Transition
3 October to 20 December 2023

Open Studio & Artists Talk Saturday 16 December, 12 noon to 4.30 pm
Please join us in celebrating the close of Jamie Ashforth’s artist residency with us! 12-2pm Open Studio, 2-3pm Artist Talk, 3-4:30pm Wine + Cheese
She has lots to share with you all about the genesis and evolution of Speaking to Absence, a project in progress throughout her 3-month residency here at Uillinn.
Looking forward to seeing you here!

This experimental drawing and print-based project involves in-person engagement running alongside remote participation. You’re invited to bring an object of your choice to Studio 3, where all further instruction and materials will be available.

Jamie will use this studio residency as a period of research and development, where she intends to transform the studio space into a site of collaborative experimentation. Given widespread encounters with environmental, social, and individual change, Jamie is interested in creating a middle space – a grey zone – that makes room for shared vulnerability, uncertainty and confusion. Her intension is to build an unexpected and unplannable environment to explore the way in which installation construction may offer shared, embodied exposure to experiences of precarity and liminality. This process will likely involve combining foraged and scavenged materials from the Skibbereen area with previous portfolio work, sound recordings and contributions from others. Through durational, collaborative, mixed media inputs, the installation will continually evolve throughout the course of the residency. Themes of absence/presence, emptiness/ fullness, silence/noise, and stillness/movement will key into a broader exploration of transitional spaces and relationship to environment. A focus will be placed on documenting the evolution of the studio-installation space and inviting others into the conversation.

Jamie acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for funding this residency.

Jamie Ashforth is a Canadian visual artist researching the relationship between place and material, with a focus on vulnerability, precarity and experimentation. Her practice is largely process-led and material-responsive out of a quest for embodied experiences of discovery. Through experimental approaches to drawing, print, photography, and installation, she engages with transitional phases and liminal spaces. Jamie is a current In-House 2 artist-in-residence at The Guesthouse Project (Cork), and a member of international collective Re:Group. While previously in residence at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, she hosted Groundswell Again, a synchronised transatlantic event generating kinship across distance.

Instagram: @jamie_ashforth

www.jamieashforth.com

WCAC acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council and Cork County Council in making these residencies possible.