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Welcoming Nisha Duggal and Kate Sweeney
We're delighted to announce that artists Nisha Duggal and Kate Sweeney have been selected to take part in Designs on Heritage, a new residency inviting exploration of ideas and narratives around cultural heritage.
The theme - Designs on Heritage - is open to interpretation with the aim to support Nisha and Kate explore thinking and approaches by engaging with heritage settings and places of relevance across the North East of England. It’s hoped that this openness will enable play, experimentation and connection between creative practice, people and places.
In recent times, D6 has worked with visual artists and creative partners to explore untold narratives or give new perspectives to cultural heritage. Across international locations from Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland to the mountain village of Argros in Cyprus, artists have researched and produced new work in response to the complex personal and political dimensions of heritage.
Kate’s proposal is fascinating as her approach to heritage is driven through her sensitive and evolving research from queer and adoptive parents perspectives. Through gentle acts making and connecting to others, she guides the question, how do we hold our heritage?
Nisha’s practice explores culture, display and attempts to unpack the motivations of historical figures and their legacy in conserved heritage sites. Growing up in the North East she has a personal connection with the region and will explore various sites to understand what resonates with her interest in coloniality and how those complexities play out today.
We had a fantastic response to the Designs on Heritage Open call, with artists across the UK and Ireland submitting applications. Many thanks to all the artists who took the time to apply.
The residency will provide the opportunity to research some of the North East’s heritage sites under the guardianship of the National Trust and other places of relevance, with the hope that new responses and connections are made, revealing the undervalued or unknown.
Designs on Heritage is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, National Trust, Newcastle Culture Investment Fund and Arts Council England.
The theme - Designs on Heritage - is open to interpretation with the aim to support Nisha and Kate explore thinking and approaches by engaging with heritage settings and places of relevance across the North East of England. It’s hoped that this openness will enable play, experimentation and connection between creative practice, people and places.
In recent times, D6 has worked with visual artists and creative partners to explore untold narratives or give new perspectives to cultural heritage. Across international locations from Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland to the mountain village of Argros in Cyprus, artists have researched and produced new work in response to the complex personal and political dimensions of heritage.
Kate’s proposal is fascinating as her approach to heritage is driven through her sensitive and evolving research from queer and adoptive parents perspectives. Through gentle acts making and connecting to others, she guides the question, how do we hold our heritage?
Nisha’s practice explores culture, display and attempts to unpack the motivations of historical figures and their legacy in conserved heritage sites. Growing up in the North East she has a personal connection with the region and will explore various sites to understand what resonates with her interest in coloniality and how those complexities play out today.
We had a fantastic response to the Designs on Heritage Open call, with artists across the UK and Ireland submitting applications. Many thanks to all the artists who took the time to apply.
The residency will provide the opportunity to research some of the North East’s heritage sites under the guardianship of the National Trust and other places of relevance, with the hope that new responses and connections are made, revealing the undervalued or unknown.
Designs on Heritage is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, National Trust, Newcastle Culture Investment Fund and Arts Council England.
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Nisha works across media to explore expressions of freedom in the everyday. She is interested in the transformative qualities of making and doing, engineering situations that uncover deep-seated primitive impulses to connect. Find out more here.
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Kate explores how familial bonds are formed beyond the materials and myths of blood and DNA, utilising everyday moments and materials to focus on the way bodies transfer and share information, feelings and histories. Find out more here.
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