Unfinished Business 2: Felicity Truscott

Over the course of six months from September 2015 to March 2016, we’ve planned a series of three Unfinished Business events which represent a tiny sample of the astonishingly diverse art and artists working in East Sussex as part of Blue Monkey Network.

Our September event charted the progress of Judith Alder’s New Immortals research and curatorial project while our March event will feature Sheila Hay’s account of her ongoing Typical Woman: a self portrait work. To kick off the New Year though, Felicity Truscott will bring along examples of work made during her year-long developmental project and residency at Ashburnham College.

Felicity will use her Unfinished Business opportunity to reflect upon her experiences of the past year during which she has been the recipient of a Re:view bursary from a-n The Artists Information Company. She will tell us about her experience of applying for and being awarded the bursary, and how she has used it to take advantage of mentoring from experienced artists to help advance her practice. Felicity will also tell us about the self-initiated residency she has undertaken on the Ashburnham Estate during this period and show us some of the work she has been making there while she’s had the use of a small workspace in the grounds of the estate.

Shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012, Felicity is an artist and mother to 3 boys. Her previous work has taken the form of abstracted landscapes, using a gesso ground and the application of charcoal and ash, but as important as the subject matter and media is the physicality of process and action which is fundamental to Felicity's work. Her current works are developed through play and experimentation with processes and materials, investigation of her environment and live performance, sweeping, skating over pigmented paper, leaving traces which record the physicality of the artist and her materials.

Our Unfinished Business events offer the opportunity to get a behind the scenes insight into the research and development of an artist's work, focusing on the development of a piece of work or project still in progress. They enable us to consider different artists' approaches to their work, their starting points and ways of developing their material and its context, exploring research, planning, development of techniques, skills and processes; sharing frustrations, breakthroughs, celebrations, confusion... and the occasional brief moment of clarity.

For the artist, the evening provides a valuable opportunity to order and review work in progress, to edit and collate ideas and images, and to try to make sense of a complex process in order to be able to present it to our audience.

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Image: Studio work, Felicity Truscott

Wednesday 20th January, 6 – 8pm
at Towner, Devonshire Park, College Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4JJ
Artists - all welcome
FREE to Blue Monkey Network members; £5 non-members

Refreshments will be available (contributions welcome) or please feel free to bring a bottle.

For more information visit http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/event/unfinished-business-2-felicity-truscott/