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| Image; Kate Briggs. Photo Sarah Tulej |
- Hosted by the MLitt in Fine Art Writing and the School of Fine Art, Dr Briggs will work with staff and students at the GSA for 12 months
- New initiative introduced by Head of School, Professor Rebecca Fortnum, will see programmes across the School host residencies.
Writer and translator Kate Briggs will join the GSA’s School of Fine Art as its inaugural Practitioner in Residence it has been announced today, 10 March 2022. Dr Briggs, who will be hosted by the MLitt Fine Art Writing programme, will work with staff, students and the wider arts community on a range of projects including contributing to a masterclass on Biographical Fictioning, led by Dr Laura Hayes, in early April. She will also publish new conversational writing with The Yellow Paper: Journal for Art Writing.
“I am delighted to announce that Dr Kate Briggs will be our first Practitioner in Residence,” says Professor Rebecca Fortnum, Head of the School of Fine Art. “The initiative will see exceptional artists, writers and curators engaging with students and staff and provide models for professional life in the arts.
Programmes within the School will host the practitioner in turn, but they will be active across disciplines, allowing insight into their processes and outcomes.”
Rotterdam-based Kate Briggs was a core tutor on the MFA in Fine Art programme at Piet Zwart Institute from 2016-2021 and has recently been a guest tutor at the University of Arkansas, Princeton University, the Rietveld Academie and the Netherlands Film Academy. She is currently working in a novel – The Long Form – scheduled for publication in Spring 2023 and translating Hélène Bessette’s first novel Lili pleure (1953).
Dr Briggs’ long essay This Little Art (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017) has been translated into Spanish and German; a French translation is forthcoming in autumn 2022. She runs the intermittent reading and writing group Short Pieces that Move! and in 2021 was the recipient of a Windham-Campbell prize for non-fiction.
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