Collette Rayner : Standpoint Futures Residencies 2015

13 May 2015-1 Jan 2000

Overview

Collette Rayner - Standpoint Futures Residency 2015 In conversation and open discussion with Andrea Francke For this event our current Standpoint Futures resident artist Collette Rayner will present a short publication of new material made during her residency. This will coincide with an open discussion and ‘in conversation’ with Andrea Francke. Collette Rayner's practice focuses on model-making as a methodology and as a subject of research. Throughout the residency her work has focused on investigations into the insular world of hobbyists, model makers and micro nationalists and aspects of privacy and piracy surrounding each organisation’s assertion of craft, capital and community structures. Collette Rayner (b. 1990 Dundee) lives and works in Glasgow. Rayner graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2012 and has since exhibited in numerous group and solo shows including ‘Structural Proposition ≥ Sensible Reasoning’, The shipping container bothy, The Whisky Bond, Glasgow (2015), ’Access as Idiot Distraction’, Collective, Edinburgh (2014), ‘Slippage’, Bermerton Project Space, London (2014), ‘Penumbra’, APT Gallery, London (2014). Rayner was part of Collective’s 2014 Satellite Programme with a residency at Studio Voltaire, London and Hospitalfields Arbroath. Andrea Francke (b.1978 Lima, Peru) is a graduate of Open School East whose most recent projects include The Piracy Project, a collaboration with Eva Weinmayr that explores authorship, copyright and publishing and Invisible Spaces of Parenthood, with Kim Dhillon. She is currently working towards opening a pub with Eva Rowson and Ross Jardine as a way to enact their research on administering, hosting and nurturing in an everyday practice. Taking place at Standpoint Gallery, London, Standpoint Futures Residencies are for emerging/mid career artists, designed to be flexible and responsive to the project, needs and desired outcomes of individual participants. The residency's chief aims are to provide high quality, individualized opportunities to develop the artist's practice and career, and to integrate London and the regional UK art world to promote access and the exchange of ideas. Standpoint Futures 2015 includes Zoe Williams (Scotland), Collette Rayner (Fenton Arts Trust), Thomas Goddard (Wales), Brian J Morrison (England). We are grateful for the support of Arts Council England, Arts Council Wales, Creative Scotland and the Fenton Arts Trust, who are core funding the programme with Standpoint in 2015. And for the support of our regional partners with whom we run the programme and select artists: Mostyn, Chapter, Peacock Visual Arts, Exeter Phoenix and Grand Union.