Millie Layton & Eleni Zervou selected for the second year of the APT & Fenton Arts Trust Mentoring Award.
A.P.T is pleased to announce that the recipients of the Year Two A.P.T & Fenton Arts Trust Mentoring Award are Millie Layton and Eleni Zervou.
Both Awardees join us in July 2022 and have access to a free studio for one year. In addition, each Awardee will receive advice and guidance on their fine art practice, to help them release their full potential. This mentoring opportunity will be provided by esteemed professional artists at A.P.T: Victoria Rance and Sheila Vollmer.
Starting in July 2022, the second year of this unique programme, specialising in sculpture and installation, is designed to provide support during the period between education and professional life, in a collaborative one-to-one mentoring relationship. Jointly funded by the Fenton Arts Trust and APT.
The Mentoring Award will benefit the mentees by helping them develop their practice, broadening their experience within a working studio community / gallery complex.
A.P.T was established 26 years ago by a group of artists and has been delivering graduate programmes for many years. As a charity, A.P.T is in a unique position with over 40 studio artist-members who have extensive knowledge and valuable experience and are willing to pass on their expertise to the next generation of visual artists.
In this current climate, as we navigate through a post COVID world, continued learning is so important. This Mentoring Award will provide a safe space for exploration in a well-known studio complex and gallery, in a creek-side building with an interesting history, which has been lovingly preserved by A.P.T from Deptford’s industrial past.
Millie Layton, Year Two Awardee said:
“I am so grateful and excited to have received the APT Mentoring and studio award. As a sculptor with a studio-based practice living and working in London with the cost of living soaring, the opportunity to have a free space is an incredibly enabling award. Alongside that to be working with such brilliant Artists under the structure of a mentor programme is fantastic. I'm itching to get in the studio and start causing chaos already!”
Eleni Zervou, Year Two Awardee said:
Thank you APT and Fenton Arts Trust for this rare gift of time, community and space towards my practice. I feel very lucky and excited to begin what I am sure will be a transformative year.
Sue Davies-Scourfield, The Chair of Fenton Arts Trust said:
“We are delighted to be involved in this mentoring & studio award scheme together with APT. The Fenton Arts Trust was established in order to support emerging artists as they begin to establish their professional careers in the arts, so TFAT & APT’s goals are symbiotic. We send the successful mentees our best wishes and look forward to seeing the fruit of this collaboration.
Victoria Rance, Year Two Mentor and APT Artist:
“It is a privilege to be a mentor as part of this joint venture with APT and The Fenton Arts Trust, which allows us to provide a free studio and mentoring here. The APT community and the mentees will all benefit from helping newly graduated artists find their feet in a rapidly changing post-pandemic art world.
I am very much looking forward to conversations with Eleni Zervou, to seeing what we have in common, and how I can help to give her the confidence to establish herself, to pursue her own unique practice, and to continue working as an artist for many years ahead, whatever the future holds.”
Sheila Vollmer, Year Two Mentor and APT Artist:
”I am thrilled to be working as a Mentor with Millie Layton this year in sculpture and installation alongside APT artist Victoria Rance Mentor for Eleni Zervou as part of the Fenton Art Trust funded APT residency and exhibition. I feel both Fenton Arts Trust recipients, Millie and Eleni, will bring an insatiable energy and creativity to mutually benefit everyone involved and the whole APT community.”
Images:
Millie Layton (Left)
Eleni Zervou (Right) - Photo Credit: @bryangiusepi
