Associate Artists
Every year we choose up to six artists from across a variety of disciplines to join our Associate Artists scheme.
We work with our associate artists to develop a bespoke package of support. This could include training, mentoring, access to rehearsal space, advice sessions, and opportunities to perform or share their work with our audiences.
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Our 2024 Associate ArtistS
CHARLOTTE BILL
Charlotte’s films take us into the worlds of the overlooked and underrepresented. Focussing on working class history, women, activists and outsider artists, she creates her work using documentary, archive materials, landscape and music. Charlotte’s films give a voice to the unheard. Irresistibly drawn to landscapes of loss, her work transcends the everyday, carrying the audience into unknown realms, pulled by the currents of art and politics. Using the oral history tradition to gather eye witness narrative, these films ofer a doorway into a liminal world.
"I am excited to be an Associate Artist with Exeter Phoenix. I will be able to develop this project, reach a wider community and find a supportive environment to share Dartmoor Calling."
ELIZA FRASER
Having grown up in Devon and moved back in recent years, Eliza has thrown herself into Exeter Phoenix’s scratch nights and also presented a more developed work in progress piece Before Helping Others earlier this year. Eliza responded to the news by saying:
“I’m looking forward to building my relationship with the Phoenix, as well as other artists and creatives. Having moved back to Devon from Bristol during the pandemic, it’s been great to see how the arts scene has changed and developed since I grew up here”
Our ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
LIZZY HUMBER | 2023 - 2026
Lizzy Humber has worked as an actor and producer for over 15 years. Since becoming a mother she realised that evening gigs and theatre trips were now few and far in between, and the only groups she could attend were aimed at children. “I dreamed of art classes I could bring my children to, or watching comedy with the baby in the sling. I craved creative conversation and community that didn’t focus only on tantrums, teething and toileting. And I longed to have supportive working practices that didn’t require me to work like I didn’t have children.”
Since 2018 Lizzy has been holding spaces for creative m/others to meet, attend workshops and amplify their voices on the mic. She is a passionate champion of people sustaining their confidence and connection to their creative identity alongside parenthood. “I am determined that children should not be perceived as barriers to accessing arts and culture. Instead, I believe happy parents equals happy children, and that sharing the arts we love with our children allows them to see us as whole people and feel included in a variety of art and culture from a young age.
Keep an eye out for Lizzy’s events in our programme, including M/others on the Mic and Daylight Collective workshops.
OUR CORE ASSOCIATE ARTISTS
After being Associate Artists for a year, associates join our cohort of Core Associate Artists.
As their practice develops we maintain strong relationships with our associates, continuing to provide ongoing support, advice and opportunities to promote and further their artistic output.
- Charice Bhardwaj - theatre maker, performer, poet (2023)
- Charlotte Evans - stand-up comedy (2022)
- Cine Sisters - film, video, moving image (2021)
- Lucy Bell - playwright, theatre maker (2020 artist in residence)
- Kay Crook - dance artist, founder of Chhya Collective (2020)
- Filmmakers Lab – filmmaking talent development (2019)
- Hitchhiker Collective – theatre makers (2019)
- Four Of Swords – theatre, film and education (2019)
- The Young Pretenders / Flip The Bird – theatre makers (2019)
- Preston Street Union – Art collective (2019)
- Brendan Barry – photographer (2019)
- Vast Productions – Filmmakers (2018)
- Jane Mason – choreographer (2018)
- Willy Hudson – theatre maker (2018)
- EncounterTT – theatre and therapy (2017)
- Ashley Thorpe – filmmaker (2017)
- Scratchworks Theatre – theatre company (2017)
- 2.Times Do – creative technology (2017)
- PaddleBoat – theatre company (2016)
- Laura Loft – songwriter/educator (2016)
- Gabrielle Hoad – visual artist (2016)
- Luke Jeffery – filmmaker (2016)
- Laura Reeves – visual artist (2016)
- Vanessa Miles – photographer (2016)
- Amanda Whittington – filmmaker (2015)
- David Salas – filmmaker (2015)
- Nick Davies – visual artist (2015)
- Volkhardt Müller – visual artist (2015)
- Le Navet Bete – theatre company (2015)
- Dreadnought South West – arts organisation (2015)