ON THE ENDLESS HERE
A GEOLOGISTS / ARTISTS COLLABORATION INSPIRED BY FLAMBOROUGH HEAD, EAST YORKSHIRE
On the Endless Here brings together six artists working across a variety of media
Anna Kirk-Smith
Anna is the curator of On the Endless Here. She is a fine artist, academic and a graduate of the Royal College of Art, with an active interdisciplinary research record across the arts and sciences. She currently lectures in Fine Art at Hull School of Art & Design, where she is the Curriculum Leader for creative entrepreneurship, and is also a committee member of the Hull Geological Society.
Desmond Brett
Desmond Brett is a sculptor and academic with an MFA in Sculpture from the Slade. He is Programme Leader of BA Fine Art at Hull School of Art and Design, has an international exhibition record, and has worked with partners including the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Henry Moore Foundation, Kettles Yard and the Cornaro Institute in Cyprus, delivering residencies, popular public educational and practical arts workshops.
Dr Cath Keay
Cath Keay is a sculptor and academic with a practice-based PhD in Fine Art from Newcastle University. Cath is a multi-award and scholarship winning artist, has worked as a BA fine art tutor, has undertaken international residencies (Culturia, Japan), received the Helen Chadwick Fellowship and has recently exhibited at MIMA, in Berlin & Rome.
Michael McKimm
Michael McKimm is a poet, writer and performer. A graduate of the Warwick Writing Programme, he has published two collections of poetry including Fossil Sunshine, the result of a collaboration with geologists which was funded by Arts Council England. Michael has read from his work nationally and internationally and was an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa, funded by the British Council. He lives in London where he works for the Geological Society Library. Find out more about Michael’s geology and poetry projects at
www.writtenintherocks.wordpress.com
Jo Ray
Jo Ray is a Fine Artist and academic with an MFA in Fine Art from the Slade, where she won the Julian Sullivan Award. Jo has worked in collaboration with arts organisations such as Art Gene, Red Nile, Grit & Pearl and Xsite Architecture on a variety of public-facing projects involving regenerative, interpretive and participatory practices. She has undertaken residencies in Prague and Washington DC, has lectured at Spike Island, and Leeds Met and is currently a lecturer at Hull School of Art and Design on the BA Fine Art course.
Carlo Verda
Carlo Verda is a jeweller and silversmith with a BA in Jewellery Design & Manufacture from the Central School of Art & Design (now St Martins). Carlo runs his own gallery and jewellery workshop in Bridlington. He has retailed his work internationally since 1987, was a supplier of John Lewis and Liberty and has attended many tradeshows including Goldsmiths Hall and Formland in Denmark. Carlo is also an active member of regional regenerative teams, and the East Riding Cultural Task Group. He was a co-director of a regional visual arts development company but now focuses on his personal jewellery practice.
