Meteora Residency
Ainalaiyn Space is pleased to announce its artist-in-residence programme which will take place in Meteora, Greece from 10th August until 7th September 2022.
This year, three artists will be exploring the monumental landscape of Meteora, Greece. We are excited to organise the first artist residency in Meteora and to facilitate exchange, dialogue and collaboration between the UK and Greece’s creative community.
Meteora, meaning ‘elevated’ or ‘lofty’ is a breath-taking landscape of rock formations and columns beside the Pindos Mountains, in the western region of Thessaly. As a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the home of one of the largest complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries, and an ancient site of worship, Meteora is steeped in rich histories. Its vegetation, flora and fauna change intuitively with the seasons and climate, creating a site of endless change and so, inspiration. Alongside its nature and landscape, our resident artists can also explore the Natural Geological History Museum of Meteora and Mushroom Museum, making it an excellent site for research.
For one month, the artists will reflect on and expand their practices, inspired by the remarkable landscape, curious ecology, and rich histories of the local area. The residency will culminate in a group exhibition, displayed at the Meteora Geological History Museum and curated by the Ainalaiyn Space team.
In Flux
Residency Research Seminars
Meet the Participating Artists
Kate Daudy is a London-based visual artist recognised for her work exploring and re-evaluating the human experience in the context of the natural world. Known for her written interventions in public and private spaces, Daudy’s work is based on an ancient Chinese literati practice.
Marina Warner says of Daudy, “Although disruptive, her work is full of optimism; current world circumstances seem dire but the future remains in our hands.” Living and working in London, Daudy’s observations have fed into an array of artistic disciplines including sculpture, large-scale installation, film, books, participatory performance and a series of NFTs linking virtual, real and future worlds: “The Evolution Project”.
Recent highlights include an exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and being named a ‘Visionary’, one of 200 visionaries who define our age, by Louis Vuitton for their 200th Anniversary. She has had exhibitions at the Saatchi Gallery, South Bank Centre and St Paul’s Cathedral in London and globally has exhibited in Jordan, Kuwait, Madrid, New York, Paris, Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Singapore, with upcoming shows in Madrid and Segovia in Spain, London, Norway, Greece and Japan.
Rowena Hughes’ work encompasses drawing, photography, sculpture, printmaking and an ongoing series of reprinted scientific books that provide the titles and an illogical framework for the other works. Themes of looping, interweaving, layering, chance and irregular repetition connect these various forms. The works are often responding to a found object or image rather than the neutrality of a blank surface. Underlying this practice is a concern with the interplay between order (the systematic, intentional, scientific, geometric and controlled) and disorder (the accidental, intuitive, irrational, imaginative and uncontrolled) − the false opposition between reason and feeling.
Paloma Proudfoot (b. 1992, London) is an artist living and working in London, with an MA (Sculpture) from the Royal College of Art. Using a combination of glazed ceramics with glass, metal, custom-tailored clothes and natural materials such as hair, food and wax, Paloma Proudfoot explores a quiet and uneasy paradox between the human body, prosthetics and the myriad apersonal forces that infiltrate and expose our more-than-human lives. Juxtaposing the idiosyncrasies of craftsmanship with the hard-edged rhythms of factory production and soft, biomorphic forms, Proudfoot’s work produces an uncanny realisation of the limits and vulnerabilities of the human body, as well as suggesting the desire one may have to overcome or give into this sensation.
Proudfoot uses sculpture as a means to explore different narratives, not just as static works but also through installations and performances in different collaborations, with choreographer Aniela Piasecka and their performance group ‘Stasis’, as well as with Lindsey Mendick as ‘Proudick’.