Lady Lucy

Ladies, All the Ladies is project by artist Lady Lucy. Lucy Woollett , aka Lady Lucy, is an artist and curator. She carries her sketchbook with her wherever she goes and makes hundreds of drawings of the people she meets and situations she comes across. Much of her work is influenced by film, music and underground culture.

In urban music circles the use of the word ‘lady' to imply the gender of the dj or mc is a reoccurring theme; artists also use the prefix Miss, Missey (Missey Elliott). As a visual artist Lucy Woollett has also chosen ‘Lady Lucy' as an alter ego to work under, and her self-imposed task is to meet as many other ‘ladies' and to film the results of her search.

http://www.myspace.com/ladies_all_the_ladies

Sarah Cunliffe

Sarah Cunliffe's study will look at the idea of hysterical body using the iconic dance film ‘The Red Shoes' (1948) and the performing bodies within it as a basis of exploration. Investigating how the body performs to excess in scenes of melodrama and re-presenting these actions on screen - distilling the performance to the essence of movement alone - the essential movement will be re-positioned and re-located to the present day.

Sarah will be undergoing a study period in the Picture This Atelier in summer 08, supported by Portland Green Cultural Projects.

Aikaterini Gegisian

Aikaterini will be developing a new film that explores documentary traditions through the juxtaposition of news stories to recordings of the regeneration of urban environments and which questions how perceptions of reality, space and time is transformed by the process of globalisation. Based on an obsessive collection over the past few years of news articles found either in newspapers or over the internet and an increasing fascination with the expansion of urban networks, the film will link the story of the deportation of the indigenous inhabitants of the island Diego Garcia with footage from the construction and landscaping of the Palm Jumeriah Islands in Dubai.

The Varsity of Manoeuvres in collaboration with Kayle Brandon

Varsity of Maneuvers create interdisciplinary work that uses movement as a physical and conceptual starting point in their work. Their projects can be framed as physical maneuvers that seek to cut through social and spatial fabrics of diverse lived environments. For Small Wonders, Varsity of Maneuvers will be working on a documentary project centred around their efforts into researching movement and climbing skills of feral goats in Cheddar and Lynton with the objective to learn from them how to defy vertigo.

It seems to be the goats' nimble footwork that enables them to move on almost vertical surfaces as if they were horizontal pathways. Through close observation and through a physical approach, Varsity of Maneuvers will seek to gain an understanding of the animals' movements on the steep cliffs.