MOTHEROTHER

AUX x MO

ARTIST SUPPORT 2024

Alia Gargum has been selected for the AUX x MO artists support programme. As a result Alia will be exhibiting work at the Middlesbrough Art Week September 27th-October 5th 2024, benefitting from mentoring and receiving a £1200 bursary to support their practice.

Alia is a British-Libyan artist based in Newcastle who composes her work through critical and personal exploration of politics and culture, focusing on her heritage through diasporic means.

Sculpture, paintings and installation elements are reorganised and transformed in an organic manner as part of the artistic process.  Alia primarily uses hand-treated steel and hand-manipulated paper to depict signifiers of her past through a contemporary lens.

 Alia’s work explores power dynamics that echo into personal relationships, with a focus on the history of Middle Eastern and North African region power structures. Themes of forced migration, exile and identity also converge her works.

Find out more about Alia’s work here and about her Artists Connecting in Transition (ACT) on line exhibition here.

More about the AUX x MO Artist Support Programme

MOTHEROTHER teamed up with The Auxiliary Project Space and artist mentor Lenka Clayton, to offer a six month programme of support to an artist, of any discipline, who is also a parent or carer and who:

  • has faced barriers to developing their work as a result of their caregiving responsibilities.

  • is an emerging artist or has had a break in their career due to their caring responsibilities and wishes to re-start their exhibiting practice.

  • would benefit from a focused period of mentoring and support in application writing to help sustain their practice.

  • would like support in developing and refining outcomes in preparation for exhibition.

  • Lives in the North East of England.

The AUX x MO Programme runs from May-October 2024 and includes:

  • Six months of mentoring from artist Lenka Clayton, creator of ARIM.

  • £1200 towards developing work.

  • Inclusion of work within the 2024 Middlesbrough Art Week.

  • Inclusion in the 2024 Middlesbrough Art Week artist talk programme.

  • Overnight accommodation in Middlesbrough for the opening night of the Middlesbrough Art Week on 26th September 2024.

  • 2 x sessions with MAW curatorial team (Kypros Kyprianou, Claire Feely & Liam Slevin) to support exhibition preparation.

  • 2 x DYCP Application support sessions from Liam Slevin and Will Hughes of The Auxiliary Project Space to help sustain personal progression.  

  • Logistical and liaison support from Sue Loughlin of MOTHEROTHER across the support period with the opportunity to be involved in MOTHEROTHER programming.