Arts AdminArts AdminThe youth board was set up in 2007 after the first Artsadmin summer school, to offer long term engagement with Artsadmin to project participants. The youth board advises on all Artsadmin's projects for young people as well as initiating, producing and delivering their own participatory programme supported and mentored by education coordinator Sam Trotman. Through collective and individual agency the Artsadmin youth board creates new participatory work as well as disseminating work about performance, live and visual art in creative and thought-provoking ways.
The group takes risks and opens up organisations. It puts young people, emerging artists and audiences at the centre of everything it does, supporting young people as cultural leaders.
In 2009 the youth board set up two ongoing projects after a period of consultation with other young people and emerging artists: Talking with Your Mouth Full, offering people opportunities to engage in new work, create new networks and the development of participatory projects, and SCRITS, multidisciplinary scratch critiques for young people wishing to get an outside eye on their work.
In 2010 the Artsadmin Youth Board will host a youth board summit calling for boards from all over the country to meet and encourage skills sharing and networking to take place. If you or a group you work with are interested in getting involved email samtrotman@artsadmin.co.uk.
The youth board aims to:
Carly Halse
After taking part in the Artsadmin Summer School 2007 and graduating with a BA in Modern Drama from Brunel University, Carly went on to complete an MA in Performance Practices and Research from Central School of Speech and Drama.
Her interests include performance art, burlesque and the relationship between performers and spectators. In the future Carly hopes to continue with her performance practice.
Rui Rodrigues
Rui has always been interested in fine art but since taking part in the Artsadmin summer school in 2007 has become more interested and influenced by performance art. Rui has taken part in many Artsadmin activities working on both the youth board and with Afroreggae. He is also taking physical theatre classes at Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Rui is also a keen footballer and plays for Middlesex University.
Giles Bunch
Giles first became involved with Artsadmin after taking part in the summer school in 2008. He is currently studying fine art at Middlesex University, it was during his first year that he became interested in live art.
Giles’s current interests include psycho-geography and alternative ways of exploring urban space whilst taking lots and lots of sound recordings, as well as ideas of gender and the domestic.
Richard Kightley
Richard has recently completed a BA in Performance Studies at South Bank University where he studied under Robin Deacon (an Artsadmin associate artist) who introduced him to the dynamics of live art. He is particularly interested in “the bombshell aesthetic”, challenging audiences and making work that affects its audience in both a personal and political way.
Since leaving higher education he has been involved in various projects based nationally and internationally.
Priyesh Mistry
Priyesh joined the youth board after taking part in the summer school in 2008. He is currently studying at the Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing in Oxford.
Previously Priyesh has worked with artists at the Fieldgate Gallery and 100000000mph project space. He is a keen printmaker and carpenter and enjoys handcrafted images and objects, highlighting the absurd anomalies in everyday items.
Laura Milnes
Laura is currently studying Theatre Practice - Performance Arts at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Laura has been artistic director of the 2009 Accidental Festival, coordinated the People Show 1020 and is currently writing, directing and devising new performance works based on the stereotype of the working class woman. Laura also loves site-specific work and all kinds of music, experiencing different cultures, writing, reading and living in the East End.
Phoebe Davies
Phoebe graduated from Wimbledon College of Art (UAL) in fine art in 2007.
She now makes situation specific work and is interested in perception of normality in social situations, creating art in non-art spaces, manipulating audiences and constructing viewer specific circumstances.
During 2008 Phoebe completed the Artsadmin Traineeship, working in Artsadmin’s projects, advisory and education departments.
She is also a member of the Junto, a peer mentoring group made up of London based artists working in visual, time based and live art.
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