Inaugural Open Call Artist Residencies

In late December 2024 Coreset launched an artist residency programme and was overwhelmed by the number of applications it received. The range of art forms and the quality of the work by the applicants was outstanding. After careful consideration Coreset is delighted to announce that its first series of residencies are awarded to three artists - Chloe Brierley, Rebecca Greene and Liam Skillen – all with Newark connections.

Chloe is a painter creating art that explores her reflections of the physical and mental realm. Her reflections culminate in self-portraits, offering a visual dialogue with memories and experiences, that are an act of self-questioning which focus on the visualisation of the self. Chloe is a student at Nottingham Trent University, BSc Product Design, following a UAL Foundation diploma in Art and Design (Distinction) at Lincoln College School of Art and Design.

Rebecca is a multi-disciplinary artist who graduated with a BA Illustration in 2004 having suffered a traumatic brain injury in 1999. Always interested in nature, whether human behaviour, or the natural world, her work is socially engaged, focusing on enabling creative engagement with excluded and vulnerable people. She is the recipient of Arts Council England funding for Drawing Connections.

Liam’s work explores cultural identity and traditions particularly the identity of historic and contemporary Central and Eastern European communities in the UK. By examining his own environment and that of communities living memories, he looks to find commonalities in traditions and ways of preserving culture.