Individual Residencies
2020 | Laura McSorley
I am developing a practice that combines the roles of artist, cultural producer and leader, motivated to be part of a shift towards a new and better art world.
For the last year I have been co-running the artist-led initiative GENERATORprojects in Dundee, Scotland. Having learned how to be an artist who can support other artists and consolidated new skills, I realise that I want to strengthen my personal art practice. Time in The Museum of Loss and Renewal’s nurturing environment has helped me to reconsider how both my practice and research can move forward.
I worked on a new project, taking the book Bluets by American author Maggie Nelson – a lens on memory, loneliness, and the paradoxes of love – as a jumping off point from which to explore ways of making work that reflect the swirling meta-narrative nature of the writer’s aphorisms; small pieces of beauty and knowledge.
Integrated into my residency was a bespoke Guided Learning Programme, devised by Tracy and Edwin, that focussed on strategies and methods to develop my practice.
Funded by GENERATORprojects Incubator Fund and Creative Scotland.