Pallant is one of two top tier creatives who will curate residency applications for online collaborative platform, Chainy.
Australian artist, Alexander James has invited talented creatives to participate in one of his successful Artist Residency programmes, using a new online collaborative platform for creative people – Chainy.
The programme will provide young creatives with the opportunity to apply for up to 9 residency positions, and begin working on a new collaborative project in July 2015. The project is to produce artwork for a major exhibition hosted in London in October 2015.
John Pallant, regional creative director of EMEA of Saatchi & Saatchi and Professor Robert Kesseler, chair of art, design & science at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London will curate the selection process and hand pick the most deserving applicants.
Pallant has been Saatchi & Saatchi regional creative director for EMEA since 2003, and responsible for driving creativity across 57 offices in 37 countries. He has earned that with his huge haul of D&AD and Cannes awards and membership in the Hall of Fame New York One Show Hall of Fame. He chairs the EMEA Creative Board and sits on World Wide Creative Board. He is a champion of collaborative teamwork at Saatchi & Saatchi, and the fact that collaboration is at the core of Alexander James Artist Residency is the reason why he became so interested in being involved as a curator.
Chainy is an online platform that helps talented creatives to connect and to find opportunities to work on projects as they occur. Chainy notifies the right candidates of unique projects suiting their listed skills and helps establish connections across creative industries.
Alexander James has made a name for himself throughout the world for his underwater sculptures created in vast tanks filled with purified water at his Distil Ennui Studio. His works are always presented “as-shot” without any use of post-production. “Water has been a constant medium for my artistic practice for nearly 30 years as our most precious and fragile life-giving resource. Today we fight wars over access to oil, soon those same disputes will erupt over water and this fate for humanity takes much of my thoughts in the studio.”
