DYCP 2025

Programme Overview: A Comprehensive 9-Month Development Journey - text copyright by Elinor Rowlands

This tailored 9-month program focuses on mentoring, training, shadow learning, and collaborative working to enhance my skills, experience, and network. The goal is to empower me to realise my artistic vision of creating larger-scale installations, igniting a significant transformation in my artistic practice. Key components of the programme include:

1. Workshops with Jim Brouwer

Engage in supported sessions with Jim Brouwer, an accomplished artist and AV consultant. These sessions will explore innovative approaches to create and present large-scale audio-visual artworks, broadening my understanding of technical and artistic possibilities.

2. Choreography support to create a dance film for presentation

Schedule discussions and embodied meetings with a choreographer, a writer, artist, and activist, along with autistic multimedia artists to embody the next level of career development I aspire to, and their insights and mentorship will be invaluable in mapping my own path.

3. Gallery Collaborations

Organise meetings with established galleries, and ACE NPOs to understand their operational dynamics will equip me with the knowledge to effectively collaborate with organisations and showcase my work.

4. Music Production Training

Participate in training sessions with Valeria Radchenko, an artist, songwriter, producer, and DJ, focusing on music production techniques in Ableton. This training will enhance my sound design skills and deepen my ability to integrate audio with visual work. Work intuitively to a way that I work through my synaesthesia.

5. Printmaking Tutorials

Attend tutorials with Faye Haskins to learn various printmaking techniques applicable to multiple surfaces. This will enable me to project video art effectively and create “costumes” for my video projects.

6. Collaborative Exploration

Work collaboratively and experimentally to rebuild my confidence post-illness. Engaging with fellow artists, I will investigate the relationship between the body and artistic expression. Notable collaborators include neurodivergent artists Gemma Oakley, who uses her body performatively through folklore and ancient sensibilities, and Ben McElroy, an autistic folkloric musician, with whom I will explore world-building through music.

7. Network Expansion

Actively build new networks to unlock opportunities for presenting work in larger formats, including multiple screens and installations. I will enhance my technical skills, boost my confidence, and learn effective collaboration strategies with galleries and technicians to develop new bodies of work.

Through this multifaceted approach, I aim to amplify my artistic practice and make significant strides towards realising my vision of larger-scale installations.