TrAIN Associate Projects

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Tap is a new initiative, its aim is to identify relevant research across the University of the Arts London and support its development. TrAIN allocates seed funding and in-kind support to up to five projects each year.

The successful applicants for the first round of Tap funding were Mark Dunhill & Tamiko O’Brien (CSM/Wimbledon); Emily Druiff, Director, Peckham Space (Camberwell); Gavin Fernandes (LCF);
Claudia Wegener (Camberwell) and Carey Young (LCC).

For more information about their funded projects: click through the names to the right.

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  • Carey Young

    TrAIN Associate Project Partner

    Adding an emphasis not explicit in our own use of the term, Carey Young’s work addresses the ‘transnational’ at the level of business practice and the spread of neoliberalism. Her work looks at the translation of ideas and languages between the cultural sphere and the realm of transnational business and law.
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  • Gavin Fernandes

    TrAIN Associate Project Partner

    Gavin Fernandes’ photographic images are at once seductive and subversive; in series such as ‘Monarchs of the East End’ and ‘Empire Line’, he has used the visual language and techniques of fashion direction to confront attitudes towards gender, religion and identity. With TrAIN Associate Project (Tap) seed funding he will research and develop a new series of work that begins with an exploration of his own ancestry.
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  • Dunhill & O'Brien

    TrAIN Associate Project Partner

    Dunhill and O’Brien (Mark Dunhill and Tamiko O’Brien) have been working collaboratively since 1998. In 2005 they established collabarts.
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  • Emily Druiff

    TrAIN Associate Project Partner - Director, Peckham Space

    Through annual commissions, workshops and public events, Peckham Space supports art practice that forges sustainable links between the arts and the local community in South East London. Beginning with this emphasis on socially engaged artistic practice, TrAIN will support Emily Druiff, Director of Peckham Space, in the development of an Associate Project that considers this activity within a wider critical field.
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  • Claudia Wegener

    TrAIN Associate Project Partner

    Claudia Wegener’s most recent project, No-Go-Zones, involved audio workshops and interactive broadcasts with young people living in South London. As an outcome of this project and its international dissemination, she has been invited to join the Centre for Civil Society (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa) as a Visiting Scholar, and to present a Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture on her work.
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  • Isobel Whitelegg

    TrAIN Core Member - Research Officer and AHRC Fellow

    I completed my BA at Winchester School of Art, and went on to specialise in modern and contemporary Latin American Art in the Department of History & Theory at the University of Essex. While completing my PhD there, I was also involved in organising exhibitions as curatorial advisor to the University’s collection of Latin American art.
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