CREATIVE GRANT RECIPIENT #029: URTE JANUS ->
The 29th recipient of The Working Class Creatives Grant is Urte Janus. Urte is an artist based in London, working in sculpture, installations, writing and video. We loved the way she spoke about her work: the soupy blend of fiction and real life, the world the work lives in, the processes, the shapes. It made it feel full of actual imagination, full of magic too maybe. That felt rare and special and we are excited to be able to support her work, so thank you to our funders Creative Debuts for allowing us to do so!
You can find Urte on Instagram
This grant used to be exclusively for writers but we recently opened it up to all working class creatives based in the UK. Please apply! + stay up to date here
~~~ABOUT: URTE JANUS ~~~
Urte Janus is an artist from Lithuania currently living in London. She explores the corporeal relationships between bodies and their environments in sculptural installations, writing and video work. After initially gaining a degree in photography, she taught herself sculpture and video making.
Material exploration plays a vital role in Urte’s practice. She uses chemistry to develop her pieces and likes to initiate slow reactions, especially with acid. Urte blends raw elements such as gelatine, charcoal, ash, limestone, salvaged metals and natural binders to build pieces that can later disintegrate back into their surroundings. Her sculptures usually live the life of their own - they change, develop or consume themselves over time. Urte is interested in the symbolism of the materials she works with, their transformation between creation and erosion and how matter moves between living and non-living states.
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The White Pube Creatives Grant is a one-off £500 grant to be given out to a different working class creative practitioner based in the UK once every month. This grant has been set up to support creatives of all ages who are early in their careers and would benefit from this no-strings attached financial support to help them in whatever they like. For more information, please see to the Grants page where you’ll find the submission details, full FAQs and all the previous recipients.
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