Summer Camp

The doors to Summer Camp are open!

Every year ESP members take over Eastside Projects and use the gallery spaces to test ideas and show work in progress. Chloe Ashley, Laura Cooper, Aileen Doherty, Luke Routledge and Emily Warner will use the gallery as an expanded studio all week, and will be joined by other ESP members who have added their work to the mix for the Summer Camp Show.

A showreel of moving image works by ESP members will be screened in the Second Gallery and on Digbeth First Friday, for one night only, the exhibition will be activated by an evening of scratch performances from Laura Cooper & Hermione Spriggs (AooA), Emily Warner and Bethany Slinn.

ESP is Eastside Projects Associate membership scheme – find out more HERE

Chloe Ashley investigates the medium of analogue photography through sculpture, installation and text. She is particularly interested in photography’s process, materiality and history, to question and distort the photographic medium. Recent projects include: ‘Master Class 2018’, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2018), ‘Spelunking with Open School East’, Turner Contemporary, Margate (2017) ‘The Building as Material’, The New Art Gallery Walsall (2016), ‘ESP Production Residency I’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2016).

Laura Cooper is a visual artist interested in exploring encounters with places and their inhabitants, and looking at the complex relationships between humans, nature and other animals. In 2017 Laura exhibited at Harvest Short Film Festival, Lower Hewood Farm; Third House, Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland; Softening The Grid, Milton Keynes Arts Center; New Normal, Istanbul, Turkey.

Aileen Doherty  seeks to examine the widening dichotomy between the world we experience and the abstracted laws described by science. Recent exhibitions have included; New Art West Midlands, Exhibitor, Birmingham Museum (2018), Imago, Margaret Street School of Art (2017), Prologue, Margaret Street School of Art (2017).

Luke Routledge  is a visual artist working primarily in sculpture, currently based in Birmingham. Luke’s work uses the human figure as a framework for material experimentation, where everyday objects and materials are combined into life size figurative works. Luke has exhibited most recently at the residency space Bunkhouse in London and in 2017 participated in NAWKI, where his work was screened at 10 different locations across the UK including: CBS; Liverpool, EBC; Bristol, Focal Point Gallery in Southend and Limbo; London.

Bethany Slinn is an artist focusing on spoken word and performance. Alongside her own practice she a Creative Practitioner with Beat Freeks, Free Radical in Birmingham.

Emily Warner devises project-work with a commitment to process and collaboration. Taking a research-based approach to making, she draws on movement techniques, performative interventions and intersperses these actions with documentation processes, text and mark-making. She was a Fierce Festival bursary recipient in 2017, and has made and shown work at Birmingham Open Media, Savorr Norwich, and Salzamt Linz, Austria. Alongside Claire Hickey she co-devised Make/Shift/Space, an ACE-funded project which presented art-making in public sites around Birmingham in 2016.