Platform Residency: Spotlight on Ryan Boultbee

Creative residencies help you to step outside of what you know; they’re uncomfortable – often you’re working with new places, materials, and people. I like thinking of the residency as disturbing the monotony of my practice.

Day-to-day is routine is quite comfortable, like a snow globe sat in the corner of a desk – I mostly sit-on-top of a pile of admin. Enter stage left, the residency: a toddler-like character, committed to disturbing the peace, shaking everything around, moving stuff about, and letting all the bits and pieces settle in a new place.

A residency is a place where you can inhabit this chaos again and again; a wonderful new scene to test ideas, fail, and most importantly generate new perspectives.

Check out Ryan’s previous works here:

https://www.instagram.com/rematerial/

https://www.ryanboultbee.co.uk/

Ryan is also runs ‘No Jobs in the Arts’- creating professional development opportunities for early-career creatives working in the Visual Arts through projects linked to the East Midlands.

To find out more please follow: https://www.instagram.com/nojobsinthearts/