Free Reads returns for 2023!
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Free Reads for disabled writers
Deadline: Wednesday 26 July at 5pm Free Reads is back! Shape Arts has partnered with The Literary Consultancy for another year to facilitate their Free Reads scheme which provides opportunities for professional feedback for low-income writers from underrepresented backgrounds. TLC, the UK’s leading literary consultancy, run the scheme every year, helping hundreds of writers on…
Joud Fahmy
Latest Shape collaboration: Joud was shortlisted for the 2023 Emergent bursary with BALTIC and Shape Arts. Artist statement: Joud Fahmy was born in 1994 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Her practice involves Exploring Women voices and expression through the translation of concepts such as family dynamics and gender roles into tangible works of mixed-media sculptures and audio-visual productions. She is interested…
kARTa Kaur
Latest Shape collaboration: kARTa was shortlisted for the 2023 Emergent bursary with BALTIC and Shape Arts. Artist statement: kARTa works predominantly with clay, but also uses other media, including photography. Her thematic explorations include verticality and horizontality as metaphors for states of wakefulness/sleep, function/dysfunction, presence/oblivion, health/sickness and the in-between state of not being fully alive nor dead. In 2021, she…
Emelia Kerr Beale
Banner image: A sheet of white lined office paper, leaving the margin clear, is filled with a multicoloured pen drawing. In the middle contains a grid of many spirals each made up of two contrasting colours and divided horizontally in the middle. Latest Shape collaboration: Emelia was one of the Shape Open 2021 artists within the…
Emma Bentley Fox
Latest Shape collaboration: Selected artist for the 2023 Emergent bursary with BALTIC and Shape Arts. Artist Statement: Emma Bentley Fox is a socially-engaged arts practitioner, with a multi-disciplinary approach to art-making. Her practice centres community building and collaborative working to generate moments of joy, healing, intimacy and kinship. Co-founder of Party Mom Society (Leeds, 2018) she…
Dre Spisto
Banner Image: Photo by Rachel Cherry. Dre stands in a large grand foyer area pretending to be on the phone with a banana instead of a mobile. They wear an over-sized grey suit and thick rimmed glasses. A lone red folding stool is placed nearby in the background. Latest Shape collaboration: An(Dre)a was a selected artist…