APT Introduces
Anh-Phuong Nguyen & Stanley Tilyard-French

Stanley Tilyard-French is a British artist from Brighton, based in London. He graduated from Chelsea College of Arts with a First in BA Fine Art in 2020. He performs counterproductive tasks and builds work to perform it for him. Using digital components such as servos and motors he makes work to primarily consider its useless functionality. He leaves clues to how the work might function but programs inconsistencies to indicate it might be out of order. Often inviting some form of interaction or participation; he invites the audience to consider themselves an unpaid performer. His work is playful and silly, often directing the joke at the viewer or itself. He likes to consider the edges to his artworks, the room it is sat in, the people surrounding it, the YouTube border around a video on a laptop, and makes work self-referential to this.

Anh-Phuong (ap) Nguyen — also known as AP Nguyen (b. 1999, Vietnam), lives in London and works between the UK and Vietnam. Nguyen’s multi-disciplinary practice explores the prevailing cliches associated with the architecture, object-hood and personification of tourism and hospitality in parallel to land excavation, extraction and subsequent artificiality. Working across sculpture, installation and video, whilst navigating the realms of high and low art, humour and seriousness, she sheds light on the intricate narratives of desire undergirding souvenir objects and the construction of fantasy worlds and characters for foreign consumption.

Jointly Funded by the Fenton Arts Trust and APT, this is the last year of our annual Award which has provided a free studio space for a year, alongside regular mentoring for two emerging artists.

Sculpture was the focus in year three and we are delighted to introduce Anh-Phuong and Stanley’s work, mentored this past year by APT artists Chris Marshall and Bernice Donszelmann.

APT Introduces