Finnish Art Agency’s SHIFT mentoring program participants are going to have a busy summer filled with exhibitions, residencies and personal development projects. Already in the beginning of June Wales-based artist Jenny Cashmore attended a residential workshop Locator 26 Summer Assembly run by movement artist Simon Whitehead. Based at Tycanol Woods Cashmore and others spent four days…
Last week SHIFT mentoring program was pleased to receive the editor-in-chief for culture in the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE), Satu Nurmio, to lead a workshop about communicating with the media. As a journalist Nurmio is specialised in contemporary art, culture politics and urban culture. Under Nurmio’s lead the editorial team has been specialising in taking advantage of different forms…
In the beginning of April SHIFT mentoring program was pleased to receive two international arts critics from the UK to lead a workshop about arts writing. Freelance arts critic Laura Robertson and Tate Liverpool‘s content editor Mike Pinnington founded The Double Negative magazine in 2011. As a respected art journal it offers a platform for contemporary arts criticism…
Yesterday SHIFT mentoring program participants gathered around a big table and we talked about commercial galleries, art market and business with visual art professional Katja Räisänen. Katja has over 15 years of experience in art education and art business, and has worked closely with several Finnish and international young and established artists, as well as…
We are excited to announce that Wales based Jenny Cashmore is taking part in this year’s SHIFT mentoring program. She works across intervention, performance, lens based mediums, and sculptures. Her work is created in response to sites and place, exploring the relationship between the built environment and the people within it. Her recent research and development project “Like…
Finnish Art Agency had a great opportunity to visit all the artists’ studios who are taking part in this year’s SHIFT mentoring program. Our studio tour started with painter Anu Kauhaniemi‘s studio in Vallila, Helsinki, where she is currently working on her latest series of paintings. In the series Carousel she depicts the movement of…