DRIVE: participants announced
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Animate Projects is pleased to announce the five artists selected for DRIVE, a 10 month creative development programme for UK based artists and animators. The initiative has been developed with, and is generously supported by, Jerwood Charitable Foundation, and with public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
The DRIVE participants are: Jessica Ashman, Katerina Athanasopoulou, George Eksts, Sarah Evans and Chris Newby. They represent a range of practice, with experience across independent animation, art galleries, public art, online platforms and feature film contexts. With the projects they are planning to develop, they have set themselves ambitious challenges to take their work in new and exciting directions. Through DRIVE they will identify the strategic and practical steps, and access expert support, to help them realise these proposals.
We received 63 proposals for the five places and the overall quality was exceptionally high, which we believe evidences the extent and breadth of contemporary animation practice. We were helped in the selection by artist Roz Mortimer and co-founder and executive producer of Film Club productions, Sue Loughlin.
The DRIVE blogs will be live soon at accelerateanimation.com. In the meantime, you can get updates about our programme at Facebook.com/AnimateProjects and on Twitter @AnimateObserver. You can subscribe to our newsletter at animateprojects.org