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Extreme Views The Extreme Views EXHIBITION brings together recent works created at Discursive provocations in the landscape Art Gene in collaboration with resident practitioners. New work was specially commissioned for Extreme Views from three artists: Exhibitors Louise Adkins, Clara-Maria Casian and Dr David Haley. T F S S T F S S Stuart Bastik Maddi Nicholson Artist & co-founder Director Art Gene - N.B: Nicholson Bastik Partnership Artist & co-founder Director Art Gene - N.B: Nicholson Bastik Partnership - Co-Director & Lead of Islands and Bays of Barrow & Furness Coastal Team - Co-Director Sandy Gap CIC - Local Economic Partnership (LEP): As a child I was taken on regular shopping trips to Hull: then in the grip of a fast declining shing industry. I Creative & Cultural Sector Panel - Furness Economic Development Forum (FEDF) Quality of Life Group. remember being pulled by the hand at the trot past the unloved concrete, litter strewn streets and smoking buses thinking... Working on over 500 residencies nationally in community, educational and social contexts, Maddi’s work engages, comments and questions the roots of economic and social change. “why is it like this?...someone has decided to make it like this” Her practice ranges from inated sculpture; the ‘Barrow terraced house’, to mobile phone Apps - Seldom Seen Since that innocent conception contextualised by my own experiments with lego bricks and the collaborative to embroidered women’s Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling outts. Her work comments on the creation of underground tunnels in a friends sand pit to push our toy cars through, my career has always pulled unusualness of northern working class culture, people and place. me towards the regeneration of seemingly unloved spaces and derelict buildings, despite the fact that my I’m interested in social regeneration rather than economic, eecting small changes within communities, conscious intention was simply to be an artist... or perhaps a farmer?.. sometimes a soldier. developing and reecting a pride of place. My engagement is with people and their understanding of their place. Art Gene’s work with (Inter)national Artists and Architects asks: “I’m from Carlisle I’ve lived in Furness for 30 years, on Walney for 15, but I’m still not quite a local! Barrow always “What if it could be like this?...” fascinates me, its unique contrasts inspire and inform my work in wider contexts” & most often fails to nd the resources to make meaningful change happen... Current commission – ‘ A place lived’ cast iron, enameled sculptures of demolished Manchester terraced houses launched during the Manchester International Festival 2019. Maddi Nicholson & Stuart Bastik lead Art Gene’s international program of projects, residencies, exhibitions, and symposiums, focused on the role and engagement of artists and architects in the regeneration of the social, Maddi Nicholson & Stuart Bastik lead Art Gene’s international program of projects, residencies, exhibitions, and natural and built environment. symposiums, focused on the role and engagement of artists and architects in the regeneration of the social, natural and built environment. Hannah Brackston T F S S Charlie MacKeith T F S S Artist - Art Gene Artist-in-Residence Architect Director: Research Design (Architecture) Hannah Brackston is an artist, maker and facilitator based in Glasgow where she graduated from Environmental Co- Director Islands and Bays of Barrow & Furness Coastal Team & Co-Director Sandy Gap CIC - Furness Economic Art in 2011. She builds mobile structures, designs playful interventions and runs creative projects in community Development Forum (FEDF) Quality of Life Group. contexts, from boggy elds to urban waste grounds. Through working in collaboration with local people and Sandy Gap CIC is a new community visitor centre on the Isle of Walney which will open in 2019. professionals from dierent sectors such as ecologists, health practitioners or soil scientists Hannah is passionate about promoting conversation, testing new ideas and empowering communities to make strong An architect who has been drawn to community projects and the stories behind them that may secure funding. He relationships with their environment. is a trustee of Fleetwood Museum and is currently digitally recording ‘Jacinta’, a preserved stern trawler to be dismantled in May. Hannah rst worked with Art Gene in March 2015 as Artist-in-Residence on South Walney Nature Reserve, Barrow in Furness. Researching the reserve through practical experiments with materials and initiating slightly Charlie has published on community housing and governance models. In 2020 he will publish a study of the silly social events, such as a Sunday Cake Club. This residency period contributed ideas and input for Art Gene’s cultural and economic impact of human interventions on the Lancashire coast. South Walney Hides design and the South Walney Masterplan. In August 2015 Hannah began the role of Artist-in-Residence with a long term project – The Isle of Walney Community Growing Space: Allotment Soup. Established by Art Gene in August 2015, the project began through bringing together a muddy medley of local residents, families, artists, ecologists, children, archaeologists, teachers, remen and organisations. Vital contributors of the interests, experiences and skills they add to the pot. This is an on-going project. Louise Adkins T F S S Rachel Capovila T F S S Artist - Senior Lecturer, Manchester School of Art. Extreme Views Artist-in-Residence Artist - Art Gene Project Manager Louise Adkins is a British artist living and working in Manchester United Kingdom. She works mainly with Rachel Capovila’s cross-disciplinary practice explores the relationship between memory and historic narrative, performance art, text, lm and drawing. Her work investigates the relationship between cultural and historic nding the links that connects us all. Common themes across her projects are in heritage and the legacies within narrative. It is concerned with recent histories and collective memory and the documentation of momentous our communities that impacts upon our everyday lives. Rachel’s practice encompasses lm, textile and events. She often works with collections, archives, libraries and heritage sites and is interested in the installation. Collaboration is a key part of her practice, working with artists, collectives and arts organisations performative possibilities of these sites and histories and the narrative potential inherent in re-visioning them. on a broad spectrum of projects. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including, 'Notes for a Performance - (Re) Visioning a Smokey Meeting', The Tetley Leeds and Temple Bar Gallery Dublin, ‘Follow’ FACT, Liverpool, 'Between - Material Balance’, Corner House (HOME) Manchester, ‘Pressure Point: Between Tracks’, Badhaus, St Gallen, Switzerland, 'Seamless, The Digital in Design’ Museum of Architecture & Design, Ljubljana Slovenia and ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’, Arsenal Gallery, Poland to name a few. Clara-Maria Casian T F S S Sophie Lindsey T F S S Artist - Extreme Views Artist-in-Residence Artist - Gene Pool Artist-in-Residence Clara-Maria Casian is a Romanian visual artist based in Manchester with an interest in archives and Sophie is a UK artist, currently based in Tilburg, the Netherlands. She graduated with a BA Fine Art: Critical Practice deconstructing histories. Her project on alternative publishing and censorship was supported through the Artist from the University of Brighton in 2014 and is currently studying a Masters in Performing Public Space at Fontys Film scheme at HOME, Manchester and was awarded the Feature Expanded bursary, an international training University of Fine and Performing Arts. programme in between Manchester and Florence. Recent projects include House on the Borderland, a She recently delivered the project Funniest Joke in Cincinnati, for Wave Pool’s ‘Art Space Is Your Space’ residency, commissioned lm by HOME Manchester as part of LA MOVIDA and Intentional Community, a feature length lm and is currently working on the commission Connecting Cowbridge with collaborative partner Lauren Heckler. in collaboration with visual artist Nick Jordan, with support from Arts Council England. In 2016, she completed Birdsong-Stories from Pripyat; a lm and music collaboration with composer Robin Richards around the topic of In the past she has worked for Deveron Projects and participated in residencies with Can Serrat, Spit and Sawdust Chernobyl which will soon be accompanied by a newly commissioned project that responds to the tragedy of and Art Gene. the 2011 Japanese Tsunami and Fukushima disaster. “I approached this residency in a very open way, as I wanted to work responsively to create work informed by the http://claracasian.co.uk/ reality of the place, rather than any preconceived ideas or assumptions. In order to do this I spent the majority of my time exploring the area on foot. This allowed me to gain a better http://pripyatbirdsong.co.uk/ understanding of the context and various characteristics of the town. Through this I became interested in the use/under-use of public space, particularly in the number of brown-eld, gap sites and the poorly planned street furniture. This led me to create two pieces of work that considered the functions of these spaces, what they could be and the value that already have”. T F S S T F S S Dr David Haley HonFCIWEM FRSA Di McGhee Artist - Extreme Views Artist-in-Residence Artist - Gene Pool Artist-in-Residence David makes art with ecology, to inquire, learn and teach. He publishes, exhibits and works internationally with “I came to Barrow with the idea that I could map the research process in some way. Using a simple mapping app ecosystems and their inhabitants, using images, poetic texts, walking and sculptural installations to generate I began by mapping those planned journeys for research purposes. In tandem I also began to record, with drawing, dialogues that question climate change, species extinction, urban development and transdisciplinarity for any specic sites of interest that may become sites for making. These sites relate to my interest in the relationship ‘capable futures’.

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