The partnership between Diaphane, in Montreuil-sur-Brreche in the Picardie region of France, and Phoenix began during a previous cross channel project and developed over several years to deliver this project ‘Entre-deux’.
Artists Jim Cooke, Nigel Green and Liz Hingley, Claire Dignocourt, Benjamin Teissedre and Adriana Wattel were selected to take part.
The work was created in response to the landscape and created over a short period in the summer of 2007. French artists explored the Sussex region and likewise British artists took an aspect of the French landscape or French lives to Photograph.
The artists come together to exhibit at the Galerie de la tapisserie at Beauvais from 28th March to 15th June 2008 and during the Brighton Photography Biennial in October 2008 at Phoenix.
Artists hanging work at Galerie de la tapisserie
Jim Cooke
Nigel Green
Liz Hingley
Claire Dignocourt
Adriana Wattel
Benjamin Teissèdre
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Phoenix has developed a visiting artist programme with the aim of providing national and international artists with the opportunity to develop work within the environment of a large arts organisation. The residencies last from 6 to 8 weeks and are process-based enabling artists to develop work and tryout ideas in response to a new environment without the pressure of necessarily producing a finished exhibition.
Visiting artists are encouraged to network with other artists and organisations in the South East as a means of establishing a mutual exchange of ideas through practice.
Phoenix has also been able to send studio artists abroad in our exchange programmes. The focus of the exchange residencies is to broaden reciprocal awareness of the artists’ working practice and cross-cultural fertilisation between cities. Cultural exchange between organisations and individuals foster chains for future collaborations that outlive the length of the residency and spawn new professional and personal networks.
Publicly accessible residencies help to broaden understanding of the thinking and making processes of artists, and enables artists to have direct, challenging and productive interaction with their audiences.
