The Sculpture Podcast

The Sculpture Podcast

Episode 6: Eleni Zervou

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In this episode Victoria Rance, APT Artist/Mentor talks to Eleni Zervou, Fenton Arts Trust Mentoring Award recipient.

Year two recipients of the APT & Fenton Arts Trust Mentoring Award Millie Layton and Eleni Zervou celebrate their year at APT studios with an exhibition of work, made over the last 12 months in the APT Gallery Deptford London.

Sculpture was the focus in year two and APT is delighted to introduce Millie and Eleni’s work, mentored this past year by APT artists Sheila Vollmer and Victoria Rance. As part of the Award Millie and Eleni were each given a 1 year fully paid accessible studio space at APT studios Deptford, regular support from their APT artist Mentor and a joint exhibition in the APT Gallery at the end of their year program in June 2023.

This unique programme is designed to provide space and support during the period between education and professional life, with a collaborative one-to-one mentoring relationship. The Mentoring Award will benefit the mentees by helping them develop their practice, broadening their experience within a working studio-community/gallery-complex.

Jointly Funded by the Fenton Arts Trust and APT, this annual Award, which runs until 2025, provides free studio space for a year, alongside regular mentoring for 2 emerging artists, each year specialising in a different practice.

The Fenton Arts Trust, is a charity which focuses its efforts specifically on the support of artists at the beginning of their careers. Each year there are approximately thirty to forty beneficiaries. The Trust was founded in 1986 by Shu-Yao Fenton in memory of her husband Colin Fenton, a collector of antiques and pictures and a dedicated supporter of the arts. Following her death in 2000 the substantial part of her estate passed to the Trust. This generous gift provided the Trust with an endowment large enough to expand its work considerably.

Art in Perpetuity Trust, was founded in 1995 by a group of artists in an old warehouse on Deptford Creek. Its mission is to support creative thought and artistic vision both in the studio and in the wider world. At its freehold premises on the banks of Deptford Creek, APT provides 42 secure studios for visual artists, a contemporary art gallery, a working sculpture yard and an external public performance space.

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