Following our recent open call, SSW and Counterflows Festival are delighted to be supporting Juliana Capes and Morven Mulgrew to undertake this year’s Caregivers Residency.
The selection panel included previous Caregivers Residency artists Hang Linton and Keng Keng Tang as well as SSW’s Programme Producer Jo Matthews and Counterflows Director Alasdair Campbell.
We were delighted and heartened to see the high standard of application this year and thank all the applicants for their time and energy in applying. Through reading the applications and engaging in the wide range of work that is evidenced we continue to be surprised at the huge lack of opportunities available for care giving artists within the arts and so we are glad and excited to be able to offer this much needed residency again with SSW for the 4th year running.
Alasdair Campbell – Director of Counterflows Festival.
Juliana will use the residency time to develop her describing practice in relation to ceramics and glazing.
She writes:
“I’m so excited to get some time in the glaze workshop and work with the amazing folk at SSW and Counterflows. I’m going to be investigating sculpture, description and colour and cannot wait!”
Morven will take time to explore themes of respite and plans to use her time at SSW making things, learning new skills and re-thinking respite as an ends in and of itself. She shares:
“I am a sibling carer. This isn’t something I have ever consciously considered a “thing” until very recently when I have reflected on a unique weight I carry of knowing of my future responsibilities, yet to come. So I have applied to this caregiver’s residency to explore this in some way, and in counterpoint to explore my work through that lens- how the work I make has been affected, lifelong, by what I carry with me. I’m excited and trepidatious!
We look forward to welcoming them both throughout 2024 and early 2025.
About the Artists
Juliana Capes is a multi disciplinary visual artist with a diverse practise working across sculptural and installation, sound and moving image, description and participation. Her artworks often use the vocabulary of natural phenomena to consider the processes of feeling, seeing and believing. Her poetic descriptive moving image work considers access as an instigating factor, building on her 20 years experience working with Visual Impaired audiences in Scotland as an Audio describer . She has a passion for access that also comes from lived experience of neurodiversity and disability, as a dyspraxic artist and the parent carer of two children with intellectual disabilities.
Morven Mulgrew is an anti-disciplinary artist based in Glasgow. She makes live work and artifacts using materials, process and the body as starting points for investigation. She tries to make work which is home-made, hand-made, lively and absurd, and also likes to play about with boundaries and hierarchies. Morven is currently studying for a degree in Planetary Science with the Open University. She is stimulated by being in territories where she doesn’t know what she is doing and finds learning new things a creative space to inhabit.
