Inspire. Support. Create.
Chris Timms
ACME Studio Award
Goldsmiths University
Master of Fine Art
2017
In 2017 Chris Timms won the ACME studio Award. The award provides a graduate of the MFA to have a fully funded residency in a shared studio space created by ACME in Stratford, East London. The Award from Artisa is to offer support and to help graduates develop a sustainable practice and manage the difficult transition from University into the commercial art world.
Chris Timms (MFA Award, Goldsmiths) works with performance and sound and explores stuttering and disfluency as forms of estrangement, interruption, and multiplicity through embodied speech. His work is informed by an ongoing exploration and collection of output produced by figures who have spoken with a disfluency or stutter.
The ACME studio award supplies its winners with the opportunities to be involved with and initiate ways to share discourse around their practices and the wider art world. During his time at ACME, Chris initiated reading groups as a way of developing ideas discursively with peers from other universities, and to get a sense of the various approaches to their work and what they valued.
Receiving tutorials with visiting artist at ACME’s studio spaces made room for Chris to engage in critical discussion and to hear about work from totally different backgrounds, educations and experiences.
“I had never really spoken about work through the frame of painting and it was really interesting to get a bit of a crash course in it. It allowed me to indulge my private fantasy of someday being a painter. ACME were also great at formally incorporating group crit sessions and that helped in getting conversations going.”
During his time on the residency, Chris made many new discoveries about his own practice, one of which being the realisation of how much of his practice and approach had emerged from an institutional framework. Often the shift from studying at university to being with a creative practice on the outside can be huge, Artisa and ACME’s support provides support for artists in this shift.
‘I am so grateful for the support the Residency Award offered me. The award offered material support in two significant ways: In the provision of a large heated studio space for a year; and a sum of money to allow production of work without fear of pressure.’
The support allowed Chris to take some risks towards collaborative work that have developed into sustainable working relationships, such as the Living Newspaper. This encouraged him to work in a more socially orientated way and not follow an autonomous studio model of working. He was also able to set up an event with commissioned new work from several artists and organise a group show at the end of the residency, enabling him to collaborate further with other young and talented artists.
Inspire. Support. Create.
Chris Timms
ACME Studio Award
Goldsmiths University
Master of Fine Art
2017
In 2017 Chris Timms won the ACME studio Award. The award provides a graduate of the MFA to have a fully funded residency in a shared studio space created by ACME in Stratford, East London. The Award from Artisa is to offer support and to help graduates develop a sustainable practice and manage the difficult transition from University into the commercial art world.
Chris Timms (MFA Award, Goldsmiths) works with performance and sound and explores stuttering and disfluency as forms of estrangement, interruption, and multiplicity through embodied speech. His work is informed by an ongoing exploration and collection of output produced by figures who have spoken with a disfluency or stutter.
The ACME studio award supplies its winners with the opportunities to be involved with and initiate ways to share discourse around their practices and the wider art world. During his time at ACME, Chris initiated reading groups as a way of developing ideas discursively with peers from other universities, and to get a sense of the various approaches to their work and what they valued.
Receiving tutorials with visiting artist at ACME’s studio spaces made room for Chris to engage in critical discussion and to hear about work from totally different backgrounds, educations and experiences.
“I had never really spoken about work through the frame of painting and it was really interesting to get a bit of a crash course in it. It allowed me to indulge my private fantasy of someday being a painter. ACME were also great at formally incorporating group crit sessions and that helped in getting conversations going.”
During his time on the residency, Chris made many new discoveries about his own practice, one of which being the realisation of how much of his practice and approach had emerged from an institutional framework. Often the shift from studying at university to being with a creative practice on the outside can be huge, Artisa and ACME’s support provides support for artists in this shift.
‘I am so grateful for the support the Residency Award offered me. The award offered material support in two significant ways: In the provision of a large heated studio space for a year; and a sum of money to allow production of work without fear of pressure.’
The support allowed Chris to take some risks towards collaborative work that have developed into sustainable working relationships, such as the Living Newspaper. This encouraged him to work in a more socially orientated way and not follow an autonomous studio model of working. He was also able to set up an event with commissioned new work from several artists and organise a group show at the end of the residency, enabling him to collaborate further with other young and talented artists.