Talks & Seminars
Residency Artist Talk with Rae-Yen Song
Join us for an in conversation with Porthmeor Studios Residency Artist Rae-Yen Song and Harriet Cooper, Director at The Burton
Rae-Yen Song is the 2024 recipient of the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Residency Award and has been in Porthmeor Studio 9 since the beginning of August on a three month residency, supported by the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust.
Date: Tuesday 29 October
Timings: Doors open 5.45pm, talk 6-7pm
Tickets: This event is free to attend, but registration is essential. Please book your place via Eventbrite
Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 is an artist flowing with the immigrant experience of flux and resilience, hungry to ever-evolve and build things. Guided by Daoist ways of worlding, Song considers family as a hybrid organism, radically entwined with all other living things - continuously swirling in multi- space and time. Song masticates their vibrating qi, and grows a big belly to hold all of this entangled ancestry… plop plop plop… warm excretions of other life stories to be sewn, watered and sung.
In 2024, Song collated a research exhibition and live programme, life-bestowing cadaverous soooooooooooooooooot, at CCA Glasgow. Work has also been shown at Mead Gallery, Coventry (Hayward Gallery Touring, 2024-26), Royal Scottish Academy (2024), Aspex Portsmouth (2023), FACT Liverpool (2022), Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2022), Quench Gallery, Margate (2022), Dundee Contemporary Arts (2021), LUX Scotland & BBC Scotland (2021), Glasgow International (2021), esea contemporary, Manchester (2020), Edinburgh Art Festival (2018; 2020), Jerwood Arts, London (2018). Residencies include Launch Pad LaB, France (2022), Talbot Rice Residents, Edinburgh (2019-2021), Hospitalfield, Arbroath (2019), Sura Medura, Sri Lanka (2017). Forthcoming projects include Print Clan residency, Glasgow (2024), and solo exhibitions at William Hine Gallery, London (2025), and Tramway, Glasgow (2025).
Harriet Cooper is a curator from Manchester who has recently been appointed Director of The Burton at Bideford Art Gallery and Museum. She developed her practice working with organisations including Jerwood Arts, UAL Art Collection, Firstsite, the British Council, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Tate Liverpool. Her recent research and projects have focused on early-career artists and commissioning. Harriet is a member of the Arts Council Collection Acquisitions Committee 2022-2025 and Project Director for touring exhibition Jerwood Survey III.
Date: Tuesday 29 October
Timings: Doors open 5.45pm, talk 6-7pm
Tickets: This event is free to attend, but registration is essential. Please book your place via Eventbrite
Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 is an artist flowing with the immigrant experience of flux and resilience, hungry to ever-evolve and build things. Guided by Daoist ways of worlding, Song considers family as a hybrid organism, radically entwined with all other living things - continuously swirling in multi- space and time. Song masticates their vibrating qi, and grows a big belly to hold all of this entangled ancestry… plop plop plop… warm excretions of other life stories to be sewn, watered and sung.
In 2024, Song collated a research exhibition and live programme, life-bestowing cadaverous soooooooooooooooooot, at CCA Glasgow. Work has also been shown at Mead Gallery, Coventry (Hayward Gallery Touring, 2024-26), Royal Scottish Academy (2024), Aspex Portsmouth (2023), FACT Liverpool (2022), Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2022), Quench Gallery, Margate (2022), Dundee Contemporary Arts (2021), LUX Scotland & BBC Scotland (2021), Glasgow International (2021), esea contemporary, Manchester (2020), Edinburgh Art Festival (2018; 2020), Jerwood Arts, London (2018). Residencies include Launch Pad LaB, France (2022), Talbot Rice Residents, Edinburgh (2019-2021), Hospitalfield, Arbroath (2019), Sura Medura, Sri Lanka (2017). Forthcoming projects include Print Clan residency, Glasgow (2024), and solo exhibitions at William Hine Gallery, London (2025), and Tramway, Glasgow (2025).
Harriet Cooper is a curator from Manchester who has recently been appointed Director of The Burton at Bideford Art Gallery and Museum. She developed her practice working with organisations including Jerwood Arts, UAL Art Collection, Firstsite, the British Council, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Tate Liverpool. Her recent research and projects have focused on early-career artists and commissioning. Harriet is a member of the Arts Council Collection Acquisitions Committee 2022-2025 and Project Director for touring exhibition Jerwood Survey III.
