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Our guest speaker for this month’s Creative Network is Tina Salvidge, we can’t wait to hear how her work has developed over the recent years. Tina is interested in community socially engaged projects, using film and to record to engage people during lockdown.
Tina as an artist she has a growing interest in recording singers, particularly the female voice, to enhance or manipulate emotions alongside visual images.
She is exhibiting in Somerset Art Weeks s on the 24th September in St Congars Church in Badgworth. The exhibition is short film screening, displayed over 4 screens, which will explore the use of clay and musical instrument to create an improvised soundtrack created by the community workshop participants on the day.
We are excited to have a second artist joining this month! Emma McAndrew D'Souza and Tina are collaborating as part of an artist program called 'The Exchange 2'.
Emma, uses lo-fi digital processes and homespun craft methods (often learned online) to produce frantically nostalgic artwork. Her creations reflect a fascination with how the internet enables old pop culture to re-emerge and be cared for. Personal experience as a Gen Z British woman is extrapolated from and channeled into absurdist storytelling. An element of fun and comedy is a necessity to both her making process and final products.
After the discussion with Tina there will be an activity for attendees to hands on with clay instruments, discuss the making of the physical objects, and the intersection with “artists film” as a genre.
Join us in person at The Engine Room or watch online. Doors open at 6pm. Creative Network will start at 6.30pm.
Tina’s Biography:
Tina Salvidge is a multi-disciplinary Somerset based artist, inspired by the extraordinary within the ordinary that is found in both rural and urban environments. Curiosity is at the heart of her work which emerges from diverse materials and building community relationships.
Awards and Bursaries
2022
Awarded a Somerset Arts Festival micro commission to run community clay workshops making musical instruments and tea light holders to form an improvised soundtrack to her film Sanctuary (a meditation) to be shown at St Congars Church Badgworth as part of the Festival in September 2022. Tina will work with amateur and non musicians to create an improvised soundtrack.
Selected to take part in Exchange 2 (Spike Island) to be paired with another artist and be involved in the project with artists across the UK from Eastside Projects, Turf, The Newbridge Project, Castlefield, Camp and the Exchange Summit at Primary
Awarded Artists Network bursary to research and develop practice involving digital and clay exploration and awarded Sedgemoor Business Support Grant to help enable this
2021
Tina was awarded a Spike Island/UWE recent graduate bursary, a project grant from Sedgemoor District Council and Project funding from the Arts Council Lottery fund to create work around Covid 19 and its impact on a local community. This project, Time and Place, unfolded in early 2021 with Tina running a series of community workshops and projects which culminated in a Village Exhibition at the end of June 2021, alongside the showing of her Time and Place film to reflect experiences of Lockdown in a rural community.
A taster audio piece for the Time and Place project was made for Spike Island Open Studios radio fm in May 2021.
Tina was subsequently commissioned by the Somerset Libraries Reflections project to create an installation for Taunton Library to encourage library users to reflect on lockdown. She ran various community workshops across Somerset, and created a final community art piece from those workshop outcomes. This was presented at the Showcase event at Bridgwater Library in October 2021, and has since toured Somerset libraries. The final workshop pieces will form part of the Heritage Archive in Taunton. This work was co-funded by Somerset County Council, the Arts Council and the BBC 100 Novels that Changed the World programme.
Tina was also awarded a Santander Freelancer bursary.
2020
Tina’s film “Last Days” was selected for exhibition at the Wells Contemporary Art 2020, an acclaimed Open Exhibition. Due to Covid -19 the exhibition moved on -line and she was awarded the Somerset Art Works Somerset Arts Festival Prize, a bursary which will allow her the opportunity to create a new body of work to be shown later in 2022.
Emma’s Biography:
My digital work is mostly video based, here are links to 3 of my short films
'Lady Raglan's Green Man' (2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixjUegtkgA8
'Homepage - Virtual Gallery Experience' (2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVUx_TRhqyg&t=445s
'My Fave Effing Show' (2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsfKiSjafRg
Film Screenings
• ‘My Fave Effing Show’ (first edition) – Film Screening
‘Living Room’ (group exhibition), presented by Bad Art, The Medicine Gallery, London (2018)
• ‘An Intermediate Level Guide to Frog Drawing’ – Film Screening
‘#23645721’ (group exhibition), curated by Sam Hall, Ovada Gallery, Oxford (2018)
• ‘My Fave Effing Show’ (second edition)
‘New Shorts: WTF’, presented by London Short Film Festival, [online] (2021)
• ‘Legend of the Greenman’ (first edition)
‘Bric -a- Brac’ (group exhibition), presented by Industry Oxford, [online] (2021)
• ‘Homepage – virtual gallery video experience’
‘Systemic Entropy - A series of short films that comment on our systems today’, Presented by Interlude Film Festival, SWG3, Glasgow (2021)
Emma’s degree showcase from Glasgow School of Art 2021 https://2021.gsashowcase.net/emma-mcandrew-dsouza/