Bosla Arts announces its first art residency programme
11 April 2023: Bosla Arts announces its first art residency in partnership with Artists at Risk. We welcome our first artist-in-residence, Olga Tkachenko.
Ukrainian artist Olga Tkachenko is announced as the first Bosla Arts artist-in-residence in partnership with Artists at Risk.
Tkachenko will spend 3-months in London as part of the Artists at Risk Safe Haven residency network, at the Royal Drawing School and Dash Arts, along with other activities.
In April 2023, Ukrainian artist Olga Tkachenko will begin a 3-month residency in London. The focus of the residency is to provide Tkachenko with temporary relief and the opportunity to develop her practice within London’s vibrant creative community.
During the 3-month programme, Tkachenko will undertake a course at The Royal Drawing School in London, as well as take time to develop her practice. She will also work closely with Dash Arts, a UK organisation working with international artists, towards their programme.
Olga Tkachenko is a Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist and visual designer, mostly working with media such as collage, participatory projects, installation and media art. The topics important to Olga are human vulnerability, its reflexivity, personal stories, interaction with others and with the world, and the creative manifestations of the individual.
Bosla Arts supports art-activists worldwide who face threats to their freedom, while drawing on their work to raise and spread awareness to the UK public. The name Bosla comes from the Arabic word for compass representing the unison of the founders’ nationalities (Egypt, UK), while drawing on the 8 points of the compass as a symbol of their work - covering every direction of the world to show that art-activism and its oppression is happening globally.
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