NNCA is excited to announce the artists selected for this year’s Professional Development Residency Awards: Nigel Fovargue, Neeve Galvin, Charlie Horry, Kaiya Khatri and Niall Redmond. They will each be undertaking a residency placement with us over the summer, with NN Prize 2023 winner Galvin taking part later this year. The Professional Development Residency Awards (PDRA) is a partnership between NNCA and the University of Northampton, organisations that are both passionately committed to making Northampton a culturally rich place in which to live, study, and visit. Our common objectives are creative research in art and design, public and community engagement, local growth and regeneration, and skills development, enterprise, and employment. One of the PDRA’s main aims is to support emergent artists with a focus on providing skills and networks to enhance employability in the region. Participants seeking to develop careers in the cultural sector receive valuable experience working with NNCA, an Arts Council England (ACE) accredited National Portfolio Organisation (NPO), with the opportunity to work alongside NNCA professionals to exhibit their work, receive feedback on their practice, and gain mentoring for future career aspirations. Each residency is one week in duration and artists receive a materials budget of £100. The residency can feature a public-facing event with the participants using NNCA’s temporary project space at Vulcan Works in Northampton to present their work. Details of this summer’s artists and residencies are as follows:

Charlie Horry and Kaiya Khatri

Dates: Wednesday 2nd – Friday 4th August 2023, 10am – 5pm Reception Evening: Thursday 3rd August, 5-7pm. Please register your attendance. Location: NN Contemporary Art Project Space, Unit 9, Vulcan Works, Fetter St, Northampton, NN1 1EW

Nigel Fovargue and Niall Redmond

Dates: Wednesday 30th August – Friday 1st September 2023, 10am – 5pm Reception Evening: Thursday 31st August, 5-7pm. Please register your attendance. Location: NN Contemporary Art Project Space, Unit 9, Vulcan Works, Fetter St, Northampton, NN1 1EW

Neeve Galvin

Dates: Wednesday 18th October – Friday 20th September 2023, 10am – 5pm Reception Evening: Thursday 19th October, 5-7pm. Please register your attendance. Location: NN Contemporary Art Project Space, Unit 9, Vulcan Works, Fetter St, Northampton, NN1 1EW About the Artists

About the Artist: Nigel Fovargue

During his three years on the BA Photography programme at University of Northampton, Nigel Fovargue’s main areas of research have been connected with the environment, climate change and human interaction with the planet, culminating in his final project, “Anthropocene” which highlights, through a mixed media approach, the scars and marks that humankind is making on the planet, and that will have an impact long after humans are no longer present. Fovargue’s two previous projects “Evidence” and “Encroachment” also investigated these themes. His work has developed from initially being purely photographic to screen-printing, bookmaking, video projection and mixed-mixed installation.

About the Artist: Neeve Galvin

Neeve Galvin is a visual artist who explores a mixed media practice of painting and collage, where colour holds a focal role within the artwork’s impactful image. The artist’s use of a vibrant and fluorescent colour palette creates a striking and eye catching effect. Galvin’s aim is to convey the individual and unique layers of character a person possesses, with each layer of personality, a.k.a the decorated pages, coming together as one to form a single ‘person’. A graphic design is cut out from every layer to hint at what is showcased underneath. Neeve Galvin’s aspiration is to create an enlightening experience for the audience.

About the Artist: Charlie Horry

Charlie Horry is a Northamptonshire based printmaker. Having taken a sabbatical year from teaching she studied on the MA Fine Art programme at the University of Northampton. Horry’s work stems from the ideas of The Ruin and Palimpsest. She is interested in the layers that are created both on the surface of the plate and in the final prints. She has been mostly working in soft ground etching techniques but also uses Collagraph and Lino print techniques.

About the Artist: Kaiya Khatri

Kaiya Khatri’s practice has been rooted in exploring different methods of preserving impressions of nature in print. The key themes of her practice were embedded in highlighting the delicacy, intricacy and detail of flowers. Through in-depth exploration of various print mediums, she aimed to preserve and suspend in time the beauty of flowers. There has been an evolution in her practice that has come to focus on the beauty, form and sublimity in nature. In the beginning Khatri wanted to continue pursuing the ways nature could be perfectly captured in print but as her work evolved they began to explore the ambiguity within the work and the way it could be interpreted by a viewer.

About the Artist: Niall Redmond

Discipline is the practice of limitation for the purpose of honing abilities. The word itself has been colloquialised by artists to describe the practices and mediums they adopt for their work. I have taken it upon myself to limit my photography by employing the use of a camera that shoots 640x480px onto 3.5 inch floppy disks as a disciplinary measure to exercise my skills to produce high quality photographs in spite of the lower fidelity