A RESEARCH RESIDENCY AT CHELSEA SPACE: AUE LAB

In May and June, UAL's Public Engagement team will be hosting AUE Lab at Chelsea Space, led by AUE NEC members Katriona Beales and Loraine Monk. As a research residency, the AUE Lab provides members of the AUE National Executive Committee led by artists Katriona Beales and Loraine Monk with a context to build on existing research, and provides the opportunity for some deep thinking to help shape the next 10 years of AUE and beyond. 

AUE Lab will also host Zita Holbourne (Artist and Human Rights campaigner), Industria and the Sunlight Liberation Network during course of the residency. We are approaching the AUE Lab as a research period to help in the creation of a series of position statements, policy and tools for members which will ultimately be public facing.

Ruth Lie, Public Programme Manager, UAL states:

“We are very excited to welcome Artists' Union England to Chelsea Space for two months this Spring. Artists' Union England plays an essential and much needed role in challenging the current status quo around artist worker's rights. In doing so, they help to frame and question our own understanding and responsibilities in our duty of care towards artists, and we look forward to working with them as the residency develops.”

Katriona Beales, Founding member of AUE:

“We started AUE so we could have a collective voice to change artists’ working conditions, and AUE Lab provides a timely context to further this goal. We want to thank all of our members and our growing staff team for all they have done to get us to this stage. We are very pleased to be given this opportunity at Chelsea Space and want to thank Ruth and her team for their support. ”

The residency coincides with AUE’s 10 year anniversary celebrations. From it’s launch with 10 artists in 2014, the union has grown to nearly 1500 in 2024. 

Notes & Links

AUE is the trade union for artists in England.

https://www.artistsunionengland.org.uk/

Chelsea Space is a public exhibition space at Chelsea College of Arts.

www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/chelsea-college-of-arts/whats-on/chelsea-space