Twice a year we invite an artist to live and work in Palmyra to create a project in and with nature. Artists from all over the world have spent a season at our residency. Whether you’re focussing on a project and want to use local materials or want to get inspired by the creative landscape of Palmyra, we’d love to hear more. To enquire about our residencies, contact us on info@palmyrasculpturecentre.com
Artists In Residence
Autumn - Winter 2024 | Julie van Riel
Born in 1999 in The Hague, Netherlands, Julie explores the concept of time in her art. In particular the process of decay. She has a fascination for how colors and textures in nature develop over time. This evolution is visible and stimulated by chemical reactions that show a transient process. She looks for contrasts by showing an interplay between impermanence and growth, cruelty and tenderness. She works with different materials such as metal, textiles, seaweed, soap, stone and sulphates. As an artist, she brings her sculptures to life, only to surrender them to the irreversible effect of time while embracing simplicity.
Spring 2023 & Spring 2024 | Dan Mandelbaum
Dan Mandelbaum born 1994 Westfield, New Jersey, USA, and graduated with a BFA in ceramics from Pratt Institute in 2016.
Dan a Brooklyn-based, New York ceramicist came in the Spring of 2023 to experiment with sculpting in stone at the Palmyra artist-in-residence.
After his residency, he decided to base himself in Mallorca, Spain.
He established a ceramic workshop at Palmyra and now guides once a week workshop at the sculpture club.
Autumn and Winter 2023-24 | Christin Amann
Christin Amann born in Germany 1989, is a Berlin-based, multidisciplinary artist, designer and researcher with a background in weaving. After four years spent living abroad in Greece, where her sincere passion and profound knowledge of weaving are rooted, she studied textile/surface design and product design at Kunsthochschule Weißensee, Berlin, graduating in 2020. While still a student, she was a member of the design team on the Hella Jongerius and Jongeriuslab project "Interlace – Woven Research”.
Through her work, she attempts to deconstruct and disassemble common processes, thereby allowing the experiment to become the catalyst for new ideas and methods. Her background in crafts and formal training as a designer have heavily informed Christin’s research approach, leading her to constantly question the relationship between crafts and design and society's relation to materials and the methods through which they are processed.
