Kelly Lloyd

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For visual artist and professor jina valentine, a sense of place is closely tied with the imperative to build community. Having experienced several relocations, first as a student and later as an academic, valentine has met this requirement by developing systems of support and works of collaboration several times over and using a myriad of tactics. These strategies have included co-founding Black Lunch Table, an organization focused on Black artists and legacy; teaching inside and outside the university system; and considering parenthood as slow sculpture. Transdisciplinary artist and educator Kelly Lloyd joins valentine as her interviewer. Bringing these practitioners together offers a salient portrait of the artist as community member. While traversing the landmarks of valentine’s journey, this conversation interrogates the tensions that have presented themselves throughout her career: material/ephemeral, potential/limitation, confidence/doubt, impulse/regret. In this revealing, wide-ranging exchange, the two artists examine the value of mentorship as a vital intervention, explore how to cultivate anchors as a matter of praxis, and explain why the concept of “work” should be called something else.

—Andrea L. Battleground, OHP Producer

Loading Bay is a webpage for writing by artists, an online dock – a space of exchange. Curated by Frank Wasser, the commissions collectively convey the materiality of language by teasing out a deft register of content and forms.

The title of this project positions an online analogue of the National Sculpture Factory’s loading bay. Loading bays are commonly encountered in factories, commercial units and industrial structures. Functioning as integral parts of a facility, they serve the purpose of providing entry points to staging areas, sites of production, storage rooms, and in this instance, art works.

These commissions offer artists the space to consider and act upon the implications of writing as a sculptural form. The inaugural commissioned artists are Joseph Noonan-Ganley, Francis Whorrall-Campbell, Oisín Byrne, Kelly Lloyd and Frank Wasser.

You can view/download the commissions here:

https://nationalsculpturefactory.com/programme/loading-bay/

Since 2017 I’ve been interviewing people in the arts. This is the online archive of excerpts from 50+ interviews I’ve conducted, as well as a podcast of longer excerpts from conversations I had with people in the arts over the last year:

thisthingwecallart.com