Image: oil on canvas Kay Waterfield Edwards
‘We met Kate Davies at the Royal Academy Schools, where she became a valued friend to us all. We each spent holidays with her and worked side by side with Kate on drawings and paintings, both during, and after our time at the RAS. Deciding to come back to Rogue Studios is an emotional journey and a tribute to Kate.’
Helen Simpson, Kay Waterfield Edwards and Louise Vines
Helen Simpson’s large-scale paintings of flowers draw you into an environment where leaves and petals are swirling forms, defying gravity or swimming beneath the waves, suggesting times future and past.
“I live in rural Dorset on a hill buffeted by weather; my paintings and ceramics evolve from hours staring at plants …spending two weeks in the inner city will be a huge contrast and I am not sure how I will spend the time in the studio… but my visits to Manchester when Kate was alive were always a time of inspiration, exploration and focus…. and I trust this will be the same.” helen@helensimpsonartist.co.uk
Louise Vines moved to Amsterdam in 1992, and returned there after a four year period living and working in Aix-en-Provence. “I have three homes.”
Louise started making painted and mosaic murals in public places as soon as she left the RAS. In Amsterdam, she joined a few public art projects, and took on a private mural commission before becoming embroiled in English work —teaching, translating and editing. She has recently started sharing a much loved allotment, and has deleted her VinesEnglish website. Louise is exploring a return to artistic practice and is grateful for this time and space at Rogue Studios.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6weojEGKcT4&feature=youtu.be
After many years living in Suffolk Kay Waterfield Edwards has recently moved to Orkney… In her intimate paintings recording the domestic sphere and the natural world, Kay not only revels in the colour and texture of the familiar, but enjoys incidental detail and chance occurrence. This June Kay has had a solo exhibition at Wingfiled Barns in Suffolk www.wingfieldbarns.com/art-and-exhibitions-archive.htm
✨ **PHANTOM CONDUITS
SPOTLIGHT: AN IMMERSIVE JOURNEY INTO AI & REALITY** ✨
Featuring:
ANTONY BARKWORTH-KNIGHT & MIKE CHAVEZ-DAWSON
Join us on **JUNE 4th 2025** (PV 6–9PM) for a groundbreaking exploration of art, technology, and the human experience.
🌌 At the heart of this event is Antony Barkworth-Knight’s *THE LIGHT*—a cinematic AI-generated odyssey where **voice, sound, and imagery are entirely synthesized by algorithms**. Dive into a haunting narrative where a character’s encounter with a mysterious object unravels her trust in memory, senses, and reality itself.
🎨 *Assemblage In-conversation (Phantom Conduits Spotlight…), 2025* sees artist curator Mike Chavez-Dawson assemble a constellation of speculative artworks that blur lines between **visual art, critique, and machine-generated futures**. This presentation confronts the clash between **corporate AI utopias** and our personal interactions with tech—asking: *Can we trust the narratives shaping our world?*
“…The work acts as a metaphor for the rapidly evolving world of AI in which utopian narratives driven by large technology companies and media outlets clash with our own personal reality and interactions with emerging technologies…”
The artists, 2025
🔮 Don’t miss this provocative dialogue between human creativity and artificial intelligence. Will you question what’s real?
**PV DETAILS**
🗓️ **June 4th 2025** | 🕕 **6–9PM**
📍 Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester, which is located at 2-6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester, M11 1PU
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To get to Rogue Artists’ Studios in Manchester, which is located at 2-6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, you can take the train to Gorton station. From there, you can exit the station, turn left, proceed 100 yards, and then turn left onto Beeth Street. Rogue is located on Beeth Street, adjacent to Gorton station.
PROCESSED WORDS
NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2024
PROCESSED WORDS is a new arts organisation (/’open-source collective intelligence’) launching with a 2 month Residency at Rogue Studios.
At the core of the residency is the ‘PROCESSED WORDS Adaptation Academy’, a series of free workshops where people working across different disciplines are invited to come together and develop experimental performance work within a loose framework designed by the companies’ Artistic Director Sim Edwards. Around these workshops and open to the wider public will be a programme of performances, talks and larger-scale events involving contributions from amazing artists and thinkers based in Manchester and further afield!
The Residency kicks off with the ’29-move BRILLIANCY’ Launch Event, taking place at Rogue Studios on 2nd Nov – tickets and more info can be found by following the RA Link
: 29-move BRILLIANCY at Rogue Artists Studios, Manchester · Tickets (ra.co) .
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Penny Hallas
September 2024
Thanks to Arts Council Wales and National Lottery, Penny Hallas will be spending most of September on a residency with Manchester’s Rogue Artists’ Studios, linking in with Company Chameleon, and is keen to make contact with studio artists. A key residency question will be the role of video in collaborative live performance and live performance in video.
Now living and working in the Black Mountains, Wales, she was born and raised in Leeds and studied visual art in Wakefield and at University of Wales, and Art Therapy in Birmingham. Whilst drawing is at the heart of her practice, she uses video, projection, photography, painting, performance and sculptural elements, often in the form of found objects.
Whatever the media used, her work revolves around a fascination with the exchanges between internal and external states of being. Alive to the promptings of chance, fantasy and emotion, it seeks out correspondences between the hidden crannies of the psyche and the material world, with its different systems – agricultural, industrial, ecological, natural, artistic: exploring how these come into being, collide, become enmeshed and fall apart under pressure of natural, psychological or more socially determined forces.
In recent years these concerns have led to large-scale drawing in the form of Myrioramas. Penny Hallas uses but subverts the Myriorama’s idealised picturesque aesthetic, combining and intermingling narratives, deliberately introducing elements of dissonance and misfit as a way of extending conversations about how we perceive and value the land in a time of environmental crisis. These drawings have often formed the basis of immersive audio-visual environments, providing a setting for her own video and performances to camera as well as collaborative live performances with poets, performers and musicians.
Collaborative approaches are integral to her practice: she welcomes the disturbance, challenge and enrichment of multiple perspectives. Sources/theoretical underpinnings include: art historical interrogations of landscape: art psychotherapy/systemic psychotherapy frameworks: archive material, poetry, myth and ritual.
Penny has exhibited widely, mainly in Wales but also Germany, Belgium, Canada, USA: but equally important are opportunities to be part of experimental live art events and improvised performance – in arts venues and in settings such as the extensive Llangattock cave system near her studio. Penny will be the first Wales-based artist to take up the Rogue residency. As well as offering her the chance for on-the-job training and development and connections with artists and performers in the Manchester area, the residency offers exciting opportunities to foster stronger relationships between Rogue Artists’ Studios, Company Chameleon and Wales arts organisations and communities. Warm thanks to Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Elysium Gallery and Studios and PEAKcymru for their involvement and support.