Jade Montserrat joined us for a virtual residency in summer 2020.
Award-winning artist Jade creates work from her black diasporic perspective, living in the north of England.
During her residency—funded by Counterpoint Arts and commissioned through Performing Borders Live—Jade created a performance to camera, documenting the process of making virtual connections with the local community.
The recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship for her PhD at IBAR, University of Central Lancashire (Race and Representation in Northern Britain in the context of the Black Atlantic: A Creative Practice Project), Jade also received one of two Jerwood Student Drawing Prizes in 2017 for No Need for Clothing, a documentary photograph of a drawing installation at Cooper Gallery DJCAD by Jacquetta Clark.
Her Rainbow Tribe project creates a series of work exploring a combination of historical and contemporary manifestations of Black Culture from a the perspective of the Black Diaspora including No Need For Clothing, performance work Revue commissioned for SPILL Festival of Performance in October 2018, a solo exhibition at Bluecoat, Liverpool and Humber Street Gallery in 2019, and a commission from Art on the Underground to create the 2018 Winter Night Tube cover. Iniva and Manchester Art Gallery have commissioned Jade as the first artist for the Future Collect project (2020).
