Meet the recipients of the Turning Point Bursary

Posted: 08/08/2022

Earlier this year we re-launched ‘a space’ arts biennial Turning Point Bursary for Visual Artists (previously named the Talent Development Bursary) and we’re pleased to announce the first cohort of artists selected for this year’s bursary programme.

Following a tough selection process, we’re delighted to announce the 2022 Turning Point Bursary recipients are: Jennifer Anyan, Elizabeth Hammond and Maija Liepins, Tracy Dovey and Linn O’Carroll.

The Turning Point Bursary programme supports artists and artist groups living or working in the SO postcode area, who are at a turning point in their career. Through a £1000 bursary, the programme will see the artists explore new territories, and deliver artistic activities that are responsive to their needs, and align with their practice, ambition, career position and long-term goals. 

Read on to find out more about this year’s recipients and how the bursary will support their ongoing practice.

 

Jennifer Anyan

Artist and academic Jennifer Anyan began The Other Mother Project in 2021. Following a research period of gathering stories from Mothers who felt othered from across the world, the Turning Point bursary is supporting Jennifer in developing an ambitious series of medium format photographic portraits that respond to, reimagine and challenge the iconography of Motherhood.

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Tracy Dovey

Tracy Dovey is a New Forest-based artist inspired by folklore and wild places. Tracy believes stories are crucial for survival, reflecting how as we dive into deep poverty, we find country living to be a strange mix of bounty and hopelessness, and by accessing our own strong and sinuous roots this gives us anchorage and hope. Through the Turning Point Bursary, Tracy hopes to explore her own rural story through painting and drawing, and to connect with her fellow villagers in a Village Hall exhibition and a Free Drawing Workshop to, quite literally, draw their stories out of them.

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Linn O’Carroll

Linn O’Carroll is a multi-disciplinary artist whose career started in Southampton. Walking is integral to her practice.  Exploring Southampton’s streets, paths, edge-lands to find hidden, unnoticed, discarded, everyday materials, insignificant ‘Mertz’ to contribute to a new body of work.  Conversations with objects cast adrift…lines of connection…creating new meaning…slowly ideas will root. The Turning Point Bursary initiates this journey. 

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Elizabeth Hammond and Maija Liepins

Multidisciplinary visual artists Elizabeth Hammond and Maija Liepins are interested in researching their different ‘stream of consciousness’ practices through drawing and writing, and though the Turning Point Bursary, they will work collaboratively to build structures that can support them to provide more impactful art experiences in the world.

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