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Rachel Koolen
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Artist in Residence
Albin Karlsson
Albin Karlsson has started his residency at Persistence Works and gave a presentation about his work on 26th November which was well attended by a mixture of artists from Yorkshire Artspace and other studios in Sheffield. Albin is working in Studio 10, the starter silversmith workshop at Persistence Works, and has an extra space over at our Porter Brook Studios for later in his residency, when he will be putting his newly developed ideas into practice.
“Time fascinates me both as a physical phenomenon and a philosophical concept. The ‘sense’ of time has changed over the years and this goes hand in hand with the technical inventions to measure it.” Albin Karlsson in conversation with Sacha Pohflepp, Icon Experiment, May 2008
Karlsson is a Stockholm based Swedish designer, inventor, artist. He often works like an old fashioned clockmaker with precise technical solutions in addition to poetic warmth revealed through a sense of humor with melancholic undertones. Everything he does revolves around time.
In 2005 he won the Beckers Artist Award for his ‘ingenious technical constructions’.
For the Icon Experiment in May 2008 Karlsson created a device that revealed a passing of time through a constant dripping of glue drops. A slowly rotating clockwork attached to the ceiling, released one gram of hot glue every minute, gradually forming a growing sculptural object on the floor beneath it over a period of 3 months.
Another example of such a time-based work was his installation ‘Minuterna’, a robotic machine specifically made for Stockholm's Odenplan subway station. This device sprayed a pixel of red paint, every minute for 3 months solidly and slowly covered the entire glass windows of a passengers’ waiting room.
More information on the artist please visit his website www.albinkarlsson.com
Posted in Residency Programme | Mon 9th March | 12:00am | permalink |
Residencies
New for 2011
From September 2011 we will be advertising our new residencies for the 2011 programme. As with our previous programme: time, space and money will be available to two selected artists to develop new ideas and work. We are keen to work with artists who want to help us develop our programme activities in the new studio neighbourhoods of Manor Oaks and Parson Cross.
At Manor Oaks the residency will have a focus on ceramics and the artist will have access to an equipped space. At Parson Cross the focus will be on engagement with the people and the environment of this particular Sheffield neighbourhood.
The residency briefs, application form and selection procedures will be available from our website in September.