In this creative training session on ‘artist networks and DIY practices’ Vickie Fear will talk from her experience as co-director of Counter, CAMP and Hand in Glove and discuss how artists in the regions are navigating a challenging landscape of little or no pay by building peer networks and self-initiating opportunities.
(Please note in the first 3 1/2 minutes, Georgia, who is introducing the session, isn't on screen due to a technical error).
Vickie Fear
Vickie Fear has been Curator/ Programme Manager at Aspex since 2019. During the last two years she has managed the programme of exhibitions, offsite activities and digital commissioning, including the recent launch of I stand for language. I speak for history. I shout for truth. with Heather Peak and Ivan Morison.
Before moving to Portsmouth Vickie was based in Plymouth where she curated exhibitions at Plymouth Arts Centre and The Arts Institute at Plymouth University, co-ran Counter, the Plymouth art book fair with artists Maddy Hearn and Paul Hearn, and was one of the driving forces behind the Plymouth Art Weekender. She also worked on Ambition for Excellence funded projects in Plymouth and Cornwall, and was one of the founding directors of CAMP (Contemporary Art Membership Plymouth). Alongside her role at Aspex Vickie works freelance as a curator and producer, most recently Vickie worked with OSR Projects on the Od Arts Festival: Alone with Everybody.
Links
Some useful links/resources mentioned in the Zoom session:
- Vickie's PDF Slides
- Paying Artists Campaign
- A-N artists information Company
- Rosalind Davis‘ book 'What they didn’t teach you in art school’
- CAMP - Contemporary Art Membership Plymouth
- Jamboree - LOW PROFILE
- PAW - Plymouth Art Weekender
- The Whitepube
- Sluice
- Oomk
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The video
Header image credit: Daniel Boss, Courtesy of Aspex Portsmouth
