MLitt Curatorial Practice School of Fine Art
Aliya Prichard-Casey
Aliya Prichard-Casey is a transdisciplinary curator-researcher, currently based in Glasgow. Having graduated from The Courtauld Institute of Art she is currently completing a Masters in Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) jointly run by The Glasgow School of Art and The University of Glasgow. with a BA in History of Art Her practice is grounded in place-based research, focusing on the reciprocity between contemporary art and context, with key focuses on spatial manipulation, collaboration, and resonance.
Her interest in exploring the relationship we have with materials and places through moments of encounter spurred a place in my heart (2024), a collaborative exhibition with Glasgow based artist Lilian Evans. The exhibition acted as a marker of a point in time and a position in place which was centred through themes of abandonment and attachment. Embedded within the multicentred city of Glasgow, this project exposed the interconnection between people, places, and objects.
Giving curatorial form to previous place-based or place-centred research, this project provided both a culmination and a beginning of her curatorial methodology of the encounter, which foregrounds the subjectivity of experience and perspective.
encounters
encounters sits adjacent to, but embedded within, the exhibition, a place in my heart. Titled encounters, this publication elaborates on, recites, re-lives, and articulates the encounters of both: Glasgow based artist, Lilian Evans and curator, Aliya Prichard-Casey.
Through this publication you will be invited to join our discussions of practice and perspective as we talk through our ways of encountering the world.
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a place in my heart
A ticket stub, a nail, a cigarette packet – a discarded object. All objects we held in our hands but not in our hearts. It is the shared attraction to such from which this exhibition came forth.
Thus, a place in my heart exists as a collaborative exhibition brought forth by curator, Aliya Prichard-Casey and Glasgow based artist, Lilian Evans. Embracing the context of the Pipe Factory and its history of dereliction, this project draws upon the catalyst for such: the humble rolled cigarette, and the primary reason for the downfall of clay pipe production worldwide, and subsequently, the cause of the Pipe Factory’s dereliction.
This exhibition, exploring the relationships we hold with our material surroundings, confronts our tendency to consume, use, and discard whilst reframing the object and its potentiality.
Framed through Moments Of Encounter, this exhibition acts as a marker of a point in time, a position in place thereby unveiling the interconnection, the traces, between all people and things.
Utilising attachment and its polar, abandonment, to centre the consumerist tendency to use and discard, this exhibition highlights the human predilection to assign face values to objects thus cementing the brevity of their existence as objects of value. This exhibition, in its repurposing of discarded materials, brings forth the materiality embedded within these objects and finds value for them as art. It is once they become works of art, that they are destroyed. The auto-destructive nature of this show touches upon the ‘after- lives’ of these objects emphasising the dynamism of materials, evolving, deteriorating, nothing fixed, nothing static, always in flux.
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