Artist residencies
Members of the Young Artist Collective worked closely with Skimstone artist in residence Tezz Kamoen. During Tezz’s week long residency she worked with members of the YAC on her project Sistercities, about the twinned cities of Newcastle and Groningen.
Phillip Melody. a member of the Young Artist Collective, said: “Working with Tezz has been an exciting way to develop my camera skills and planning and organising skills. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed being part of the project and being given more responsibility.”
Tezz said: “In Amsterdam I work in my studio and I tend to work alone. Though, with this social project, working with others is essential. Skimstone provided me with the best resources, gear and collaborators (the Young Artists Collective). The approach in my visual work is to ‘make’ first’ and this is what I did this week – together with a whole crew that supported me in this, benefiting this approach. The freedom to do this is worth so much and this freedom is what Skimstone brought. During the week more people got involved, and different people were working on different elements of the project. I didn’t plan that out – it ‘happened’. Which led us to make and produce a lot. Even though the week was very short, lots was done and lots happened. I am very thankful to be part of the Skimstone Arts residency and am so happy to have met all the amazing people involved at Skimstone. Apart from being there as an artist for my work; I also came home with new friends; which I think is pretty awesome too.”
Photos by Weiting Huang.