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The Fellowship is an exciting new initiative to support and encourage emerging artists who are either undertaking or have recently completed a Degree in any area of Visual Arts. Appledore Arts will provide each selected artist with professional support and the opportunity to showcase their work within the Appledore Arts Festival.

Students from Somerset College of Arts and Technology and North Devon College submitted proposals, shortlisted students were then invited to present their ideas to the Fellowship Selection Panel. During our selection and interview process, we were looking for high quality work in any media / process which was considered challenging, innovative and risk taking. The work presented also had to demonstrate the potential to explore the 2009 Festival theme of 'Fire and Fury ' and to also contain suggestions for involvement in the community.

The Fellows

2010: Kim Bailey

Coastal Stories & Memories

The 2010 Appledore Arts Fellowship has been awarded to mature student, Kim Bailey who is completing a foundation degree in Fine Art at the Petroc school of Art, Barnstaple.

Kim, from Westward Ho!, has lived by the sea for many years and feels a very close connection to her local coastal environments. In the lead up to this years Festival, Kim aims to produce artwork with people from the local communities. The work will be exhibited during the Festival.

Your Memories : Kim is currently seeking people to provide her with their coastal stories and memories. She is particularly interested in recording peoples memories, she would also love to receive images and photographs which represent peoples individual memories of North Devon’s coastline. Your memories can include all sorts of subjects; coastal wildlife, local coastal history, surfing tales or anything relating to the coast would be most welcome.

Easter Workshop: As part of her community art project, Kim will be running a free, drop in, printmaking workshop during the Easter holidays, on Friday April 9th at St Marys Church Hall, Appledore 10am–3pm. Anyone can come along and produce handmade prints, with a coastline theme, which may be exhibited during the Festival. All materials will be provided, please bring an apron or overall. Children are welcome but must be accompanied by an adult at all times. The workshop will be attended by a group of volunteer art students from Petroc School of Art.

2009: Martin Joiner

The first ever Fellowship has been awarded to Martin Joiner who showed at interview a range of challenging video and installation pieces along with a series of explosion paintings.
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