Artist Fellowships – VARI / V&A East in collaboration with Bow Arts Trust

Adam Moore is an Anglo Caribbean artist from east London making dance and performance. Accumulating since 2020, his technical studio practice houses his choreography and dancing in design and installation and expands into post-studio practices making public art and site related interventions. He creates ambient schemes – unique collections of works across mediums that research, explore, and invite a witnessing of how we live, partner, and invent with life’s myriad pluriformities now, and other ways that we might, giving primacy to the embodied and experiential, choreographic and relational, material and spatial – in reference to the immediate surroundings of something and the pattern of systems and structures from which it projects. His work on the fellowship with collections and archives transcends photography and digital collage, video, ways of gathering, furniture design and print in collaboration with the unique socio-experiential pluriformities of industry, infrastructure, ecologies, and the built environment choreographing the Docklands’ past, present, and future. Adam occupied the studio in the Royal Albert Wharf from September 2023 to January 2024. Read less

From January to March 2024, Laura Wilson takes over the studio at Royal Albert Wharf. Laura was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and lives & works in London. She is interested in how history is carried and evolved through everyday materials, trades and craftsmanship, and works with specialists to develop sculptural and performative works that amplify the relationship between materiality, memory and tacit knowledge. Investigating the rich history of textiles in East London, with a particular focus on the clothes which woman would have worn in the manufacturing industries in the twentieth century. Laura plans to connect a group of women working in Newham, to understand the ecologies of fabric production to develop conversations around contemporary issues relating to woman and the workplace, and to research the social and political history of workwear. Laura's Fellowship builds on previous commissions exploring themes around craftwork, labour and everyday human interaction - exploring how the body learns, adapts, responds and performs manual work. She is interested in how history is carried and evolved through everyday materials, trades and craftsmanship. Her interdisciplinary and research-based works have been exhibited widely 2016-2024 at: CCA Derry~Londonderry; Crown Street Gallery, Darlington; Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich; 5th Istanbul Design Biennial, Turkey; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The British Museum, London with Block Universe; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London; Invisible Dust, Hull City of Culture; Delfina Foundation, London; and Site Gallery, Sheffield. For further information visit: www.laurawilson.me Read less