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Research residency ‘19

we are very happy to announce our first ever Research residency as part of the expanded Lucy Art Residency program with artist Almudena Romero (SP).

Making image-objects with the cyanotype process
Almudena Romero, who was the lead artist for our Cyanotype Workshop in June, has been invited to return to Kavala as our first Fall/Winter resident artist. Almudena will be in Kavala for three weeks in October and November and will focus her research on the local tobacco industry, how its trade shaped the city and the wider area and the geopolitical and social changes it brought with it. We will share more information soon!

Almudena Romero is visual artist working with a wide range of photographic processes from early printing techniques such as cyanotype, salt printing or wet plate collodion, to new technologies including 3D scanning and printing. Her practice uses photographic processes to reflect on issues relating to identity, representation and ideology; such as the role of photography in the construction of national identities, or the link between photographic archives and colonialism. Romero’s works focus on how photography affects the notions of public, private, memory and, in general, the concept of the individual, and touch on how perception affects existence and how photography contributes to organising perception.

Romero has shown and explained her practice at the Victoria and Albert Museum, National Portrait Gallery,  TATE Modern, TATE Britain, The Photographers’ Gallery, Tsinghua Art Museum, the Whitechapel Gallery, Le Cent-Quatre Paris, University of the Arts London, Unseen Amsterdam and Fundacion Mapfre.  She has received various awards and bursaries including the Heritage Lottery Fund, i-Portunus. Creative Europe Fund, the Arts Council England Project Grants, and  a-n Artist Bursaries. She has also been awarded prestigious international residencies at the Sichuan Fina Arts Institute (China), Penumbra Foundation (USA), Lucy Art Residency (Greece) and National Portrait Gallery (UK). 

Romero has received commissions to produce installations in public spaces from Team London Bridge, Southwark Council, Emergency Exit Artist, Wellcome Trust and University College London, Bow Arts Trust & London Festival of Architecture. Her work has been featured in BBC Four and other media including in Photomonitor, Radio France Internationale, TimeOut, DUST magazine, EXTRA magazine (FOMU, Foto Museum) and other media.

Romero holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication and an MA Photography from the University of the Arts London. She is a lecturer at the Stanford University and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Romero has also delivered courses, lectures and artist talks for Science Museum,  Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Estorick Collection,  Sotheby's  Institute of Art, University of Westminster, Kingston University, University for the Creative Arts and Southampton Solent University.