Announcing the Fresh Milk ‘My Time’ Local Resident Artist 2017 – Kraig Yearwood

February 27, 2017February 27, 2017Leave a comment

Fresh Milk is very pleased to announce Barbadian artist Kraig Yearwood as the winner of the Fresh Milk ‘My Time’ Local Residency prize for 2017. Congratulations Kraig!

Kraig’s one-month residency runs from Monday March 6 – Friday March 31, 2017. From his early days as a professional artist, he has had an interest in incorporating found objects into his work, and has recently been using cardboard and corrugated card as the base materials for many constructions. During this residency, Kraig would like to continue using these types of materials, as well as exploring new materials such as concrete, resin and actual rubbish to produce a series of paintings and sculptures which delve into themes of consumption, materialism and mass production, and its impact on humans and the environment.

About Kraig Yearwood:

Kraig Yearwood is a Barbadian artist and designer. Yearwood studied graphic design at Barbados Community College. He has worked as a freelance graphic designer, and has also worked as lead designer for his self owned clothing label where he has showcased at some of the region’s biggest fashion weeks. His mainly uses mixed media in his visual art practice and to date he has exhibited in numerous local and international group shows, as well as having 5 solo exhibitions.

Yearwood says his approach to his work is partially intuitive while often informed by minimalist sensibilities, and lists eclectic influences such as introspection, relationships, nature and local and global current affairs for much of his production. Many compositions certainly feature a sense of structure and order that we often associate with graphic design, yet these elements are often broken and interrupted by marks that suggest another layer of idiosyncratic reasoning.

Kraig Yeardwood, Night #2, Mixed media, 2016

Kraig Yearwood, Night #3, Mixed media, 2016

Kraig Yearwood, Mi Corazon (Obsidian), Mixed media, 2015

Kraig Yearwood, Paradise/Paradox #4, Mixed media, 2016

Kraig Yearwood, Mi Corazon (Winter Garden), Mixed media, 2015

Kraig Yearwood, J’ouvert Morning Venus, Mixed media, 2015 (Private Collection)

Kraig Yearwood, Rapunzel, Mixed media on paper, 2015 (Private Collection)

Kraig Yearwood, Isolation (Artist), Mixed media, 2015 (Private Collection)

Open Call: ‘My Time’ Local Residency 2017

January 19, 2017January 20, 2017Leave a comment

Fresh Milk is pleased to share, for the fourth year in a row, an open call for the ‘My Time’ Local Residency 2017.

Having again received generous support to make this residency possible, one Barbadian artist will be selected from this call to undertake a one-month residency at Fresh Milk, and will receive a stipend of $1,000.00 BBD towards their artistic practice. Visual artists working across a number of disciplines (sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, performance, photography, new media, interdisciplinary) are invited to apply.

We are open to a variety of projects and proposals, but are particularly interested this year in artists who wish to engage with the material in the Colleen Lewis Reading Room, using the residency as a space of research, production and expansion of references & knowledge.

Duration of Residency: 4 weeks

Fresh Milk will provide:

– A $1,000.00 BBD stipend to the artist
– Wireless internet
– A 15.5 x 14 ft studio space
– A wide expanse of rural land
– Access to the Colleen Lewis Reading Room on site
– A varied network of creatives to connect with
– Facilitation of community outreach initiatives
– The option to participate in a public event showcasing the outcome of the residency

Eligibility criteria:

– Artist must be Barbadian
– Artist must not have taken part in an on-site Fresh Milk Residency within the last 2 years

Expectations of the Artist:

– Artist must come out to the studio a minimum of four days per week between Monday and Friday. Studio access is between 8 am and 6 pm
– Artist must supply their own materials and equipment
– Artist must complete some form of public outreach in relation to the work created during the residency (artist talk/presentation, workshop, exhibition, etc.)
– Artist will be required to keep a weekly blog of their activities and processes, and submit a report to Fresh Milk at the conclusion of the residency
– Artist will be required to donate a piece of work to the donor who made this residency possible

Application Process:

To be considered, please submit the following to freshmilkbarbados@gmail.com with the subject line ‘My Time Local Residency 2017 Proposal’:

– The completed application form which can be downloaded here (includes applicant’s contact information, an artist statement, and full residency proposal)
– An up to date Curriculum Vitae (CV)
– A numbered portfolio of 5-10 images (or 2-3 short videos as the case may be) of recent work
– An index of the portfolio pieces in numerical order, with the title, medium and date listed

Incomplete applications will not be considered.

The deadline for submission is February 17, 2017. The residency will take place between March 6 – 31, 2017.

Season’s Greetings from Fresh Milk: 2016 in Review

December 23, 2016Leave a comment

Fresh Milk would like to take this opportunity to give our warmest wishes to everyone this season, and thank each of you as always for the abundance of love, energy and support you continue to share with us year after year.

We are excited to close off 2016 by inviting you to take a look at our annual
year in review newsletter:

Fresh Milk welcomes Ayesha Hameed to the Platform

December 9, 2016Leave a comment

Fresh Milk is pleased to welcome UK-based artist Dr. Ayesha Hameed to the platform from December 8-23, 2016.

While in Barbados, Ayesha will be working on and conducting research for her ongoing project Black Atlantis. Black Atlantis is a live audio-visual essay that looks at possible afterlives of the Black Atlantic: in contemporary illegalized migration at sea, in oceanic environments, through Afrofuturistic dancefloors and soundsystems, and in outer space.

Black Atlantis combines two conversations – afrofuturism and the anthropocene. It takes as point of departure Drexciya, the late 20^th century electronic music duo from Detroit, and their creation of a sonic, fictional world. Through liner notes and track titles, Drexciya take the Black Atlantic below the water with their imaginary of an Atlantis comprised of former slaves who have adapted to living underwater.

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About Ayesha:

Ayesha Hameed’s work explores contemporary borders and migration, critical race theory, Walter Benjamin, and visual cultures of the Black Atlantic. Her work has been performed or exhibited at ICA London (2015), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2014), at The Chimurenga Library at the Showroom, London (2015), Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities, Oxford (2015), Edinburgh College of Art (2015), Kunstraum Niederoesterreich Vienna (2015), Pavillion, Leeds in 2015 and at Homeworks Space Program, Beirut in 2016.

Her publications include contributions to Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth (Sternberg Press 2014), We Travelled The Spaceways (Duke University Press forthcoming 2017), Unsound/Undead (Univocal, Forthcoming 2017); and books including Visual Cultures as Time Travel (with Henriette Gunkel Sternberg, forthcoming 2017), Futures and Fictions (co-edited with Simon O’Sullivan and Henriette Gunkel forthcoming 2017). She is currently the Joint Programme Leader in Fine Art and History of Art and formerly a Research Fellow with Forensic Architecture at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths University, London.

Danilo Oliveira’s Residency – Week 4 Blog Post

December 5, 2016Leave a comment

Brazilian artist Danilo Oliveira shares a blog post about the final week of his Fresh Milk residency. Danilo documented his experiences through a visual diary, sharing images and sketches that capture impressions of his time here in a series he has dubbed ‘The Bajan Chronicles’. See more below:

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‘The Bajan Chronicles’ consists of images generated during my residency at Fresh Milk, looking at Barbados’ history, everyday life and culture. Of course, one month is not enough to create any kind of deep reflection, but it’s time enough to realize some historical coincidences and explore some cultural and social issues, even in a superficial way. It’s about a foreign view, for a short time, touching on some restrictive issues, and trying to generate questions and reflections out of these.