Artists’ Support Programme : 1-2-1’s

firstsite continue their series of 1-2-1's with 'experts' over spring/summer 2009.

Artists based in the East are invited to book on to a 45 minute 1-2-1 appointment with a relevant expert. This is a valuable opportunity to gain feedback on your work and advice about developing your career.

Next 1-2-1's:
Wednesday 15 July 2009 with Jeni Walwin

This day of 1-2-1's is aimed at early to mid-career fine artists working in any artform.

Jeni Walwin is a London-based independent curator, writer and public art consultant.

Since 2001 she has been Project Director of the public art programme, Artists in the City - working to create opportunities for artists to make new work for a variety of city centre contexts. For several years she has been the lead curator for the Contemporary Art Society's annual selling show, ARTfutures. She is the Curatorial Advisor to Pictet Asset Management where she is helping to develop a collection of contemporary work.

Curatorial work includes You'll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference, a national touring exhibition for the Hayward Gallery. Low Tide, her writings on artists' collaborations, was published by Black Dog. she co-edited the book A Split Second of Paradise - a collection of essays on live art, installation and performance and is currently editing Searching for Art's New Publics, which will explore ways in which artists embrace people as an integral element of their work.

As well as essays for catalogues, she has contributed articles to Blueprint, Art Monthly, a-n knowledge bank, and Art Review. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Drawing Room, on the selection panel for the 2009 Edinburgh Art Festival, and is a trustee of the performance theatre company Crying Out Loud.

1-2-1's are free. Interested artists must supply a CV, 3 images or a website link, statement about their work and overview of what they would use a 1-2-1 for. Artists will be selected from this process.

Slots available on the hour: 10am, 11am, 12pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm.

Email Laura Earley laurae@firstsite.uk.net to get more information or apply.
Deadline for applications: 9am Friday 10 July 2009