Bosla Arts-AR Residency
11 April: 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.
For further press information, images and interviews please contact Georgia Beeston at contact@boslaarts.com l +44 7584598771
With thanks to our partners:
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The Reva and David Logan Foundation
A Chicago-based family foundation that provides strategic grants to support social justice, the arts and investigative journalism both in Chicago and around the world. We thank the Foundation for generously supporting the residency.
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Artists at Risk (AR)
A non-profit organisation active at the intersection of human rights and the arts. Since 2013, AR has become a mondial network to assist, relocate and fund artists who are at risk of persecution or oppression, or are fleeing war or terror.
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Dash Arts
Creates exceptional artistic experiences that bridge divides across art-forms, cultures, languages and communities. Over the last 18 years they've created award-winning new work with over 10,000 artists and participants to live audiences of over 400,000 worldwide.
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The Royal Drawing School
A not-for-profit educational organisation and registered charity in the London Borough of Hackney in England. The School runs over 350 different full and part-time drawing courses each year.
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COMMUN
A combined arts organisation with a focus on community building for emerging and mid-career Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) voices.