The second exhibition of the Resilient Artist Cohort

Join us for the Preview Evening of Bearing on Friday 10 April, 6:30–9:00pm at The Mill Gallery, Bramley. All are welcome to attend and celebrate this significant moment for the Resilient Artist Cohort.

Bearing marks the second public moment of the Resilient Artist Cohort. Gesture was the first reach outward. Bearing is where the artists stand firm, clear, certain, owning the work and the ground it sits on.

Over twelve months the cohort worked through mentoring, workshops, critique, and sustained practice building. APS provided structure and a framework for development. The artists shaped their practice and carried their own decisions.

This exhibition is the outcome of that shared process. Every artist moved through research and development, uncertainty, stubbornness, testing, and the slow grind of refining ideas. Bearing brings these paths into one space. The show is co-produced by the cohort and APS. It proves that artists and an organisation can work together without losing authorship or voice.

The work shows learning in motion. A year of questions, risk and practice deepening at the pace each artist could sustain. Bearing is not a tidy ending. It is the moment each artist claims direction and shows what resilience looks like when it is lived, not performed.

APS is proud to put six artists through a programme that offered each of them support worth one thousand two hundred and fifty pounds. Space, time, care and the chance to show their work with intent. In a landscape with very few opportunities this matters.

Quote from Sarah Francis, APS Director “Collaboration asks you to let go of old habits. It pushes you. It exposes where systems fail artists and where artists need to push back. This cohort made us rethink how we work and how space and practice relate. It was challenging. It was necessary. And we are not finished. We will keep building this model because artists deserve structures that grow with them, not structures that tell them to wait their turn.”

Bearing is the point where the cohort steps forward with certainty. Six artists. Six distinct practices. One collective strength.

Participating Artists: Fierce Fine Art, Adam French, Tianna McIntosh, Jelena Havelka, Jamie Steward & Christina Catherine