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Feeney Fellows 2014
Given the quality of applicants interviewed, Trustees decided to award three Feeney Fellowships in 2014, to Melanie Tomlinson, Ruth Hopkins and Simon and Tom Bloor.
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Ruth Hopkins
Musician Ruth Hopkins is a performer, composer and arranger, who is seeking to develop a wider repertoire of Central European music for her group, K'antu Ensemble.
She says "The Feeney Fellowship is a great opportunity for me to access specialist tuition in Early and Central European musical styles and techniques in the UK, in preparation for a research trip to Hungary. During my time there, I will experience the repertoire in context and receive further tuition. Upon my return to the UK, I will use this knowledge to develop new arrangements for my early music ensemble K'antu who perform extensively across the West Midlands and beyond."
>> Ruth's final report (PDF)
>> Ruth Hopkins' website
>> Ruth's research trip to Hungary
>> K'antu Ensemble's website |
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Ruth Hopkins |
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Simon & Tom Bloor
Artists Simon & Tom Bloor work across a range of sculptural processes and contexts. Recent public art projects in concrete have been produced for them by professional fabricators but they now wish to have a greater understanding of the processes and to be able to experiment further with concrete for the production of their sculptures.
"As artists whose work evolves from our experience of Birmingham’s urban history and landscape, concrete is a material that is close to our hearts. The Feeney Fellowship will allow us to spend some dedicated time experimenting and researching concrete’s possibilities as a sculptural material, going beyond basic casting and rendering into the realm of plasticisers, dyes and other additives. Exploring the material’s possibilities will give us a wealth of knowledge when creating artworks for exhibitions and for the public realm and we hope our insight can be shared with other artists to add to the city’s visual arts knowledge bank."
>> Simon and Tom's final report (PDF)
>> Simon and Tom Bloor's website |
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Simon & Tom Bloor |