A Funded Residency for Scottish Artist Frances Ryan
At the beginning of the year we selected one artist from the Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) Annual Exhibition ‘ALIGHT’ for our Studio Faire Residency Award. The award offers one lucky artist a FREE 4-week residency at Studio Faire, plus £100 in travel expenses.Our 2019...
Update – Spring & Summer 2019
A couple of months ago, there was a knock on the door which lead to us smiling like Cheshire Cats for the rest of the day… week… actually, we’re still smiling from ear to ear today! The previous owner of the property that is now Studio Faire had failed to obtain...
STUDIO FAIRE IS GROWING!!!
When we viewed the property that has become Studio Faire with Estate Agent, Caroline Hubbard, we were pretty disgruntled! Why was she showing us this fantastic property, with it's stunning 19th century period features, enough space for both us and our residents to...
How Macarons Broke Nicolette Daskalakis’ Veganism
Born in San Francisco and now living and working in Los Angeles, Nicolette Daskalakis is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, poet and photographer (@hellonicolette). She is also a vegan. (well, she was until she came to South West France anyway!) She came to Studio...
Julie Duffy’s ‘Organised Improvisation’ Event
Saturday, 23 March at 3pm Kiosque (à côté de la Chalet) Parc de la Garenne, Nérac. FREE. On 23 March we invited our guests to join us for a one-off visual feast, devised by Scottish artist, Julie Duffy. During her 4-week residency at Studio Faire, Duffy drew...
Holly Rhame Introduces Colour to February
Ever since Holly Rhame arrived on the 31st January for a 4 week Artist Residency at Studio Faire, the studios have been bursting with colour and life! Holly is a painter usually based in Manhattan, New York. She decided to visit Studio Faire to ‘expand my painting...
Street Dancer, Lilli Huttula, Develops a Narrative Performance
For the whole month of February, we are enjoying the company of Finnish Street Dancer, Lilli Huttula at Studio Faire as Dancer-in-Residence. Lilli is an amazingly versatile dancer (as well as a dance teacher and choreographer), primarily focusing on three different...
Meredith Alloway’s ‘Deep Tissue’ to Premier at SXSW
You may recognise this cheeky wee poster from our event last October when we organised a small gathering at the local bar for a test screening of Meredith Alloway's film 'Deep Tissue' here in Nérac? Well, she's only gone and got it accepted for a premiere at SXSW in...
Residency Award 2019 Announced
The Studio Faire Residency Award at Visual Arts Scotland‘s Annual Exhibition… ALIGHT.We are delighted to announce that the winner of this years residency award, selected from the open submissions at VAS ALIGHT is... Frances Ryan : Yours PeggieVisual Arts...
And so ends our first year of residencies. It’s been a blast!
As we round off our first year of residencies at Studio Faire, we would love to take just a brief moment to look back at a couple of the highlights in words and pictures. We would also like to say a HUGE thank you to all of YOU who have supported our development so...