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Hi, my name is Camila, and I look forward to getting to know you all over the coming weeks!
I’m originally American and Peruvian, but I live and work in Surrey, UK. I teach art at TASIS The American School in England and manage our school teaching gallery. I teach both 2-D and 3-D media to students from 11-16 years-old. I also mount and frame student work and exhibitions of visiting artists. For the past few years, my own creative practice has focused on exploring abstraction and geometric forms through drawing, printmaking and mixed media. My passion for dance also plays a role in how I approach the visual arts as I embrace the element of chance as well as an intuitive approach to arranging compositions.
Whether I’m making collages, facilitating my students’ learning or arranging art works, each of these roles informs how I approach the others. During the residency and moving forward, I hope to better integrate these practices while connecting art-making, people and communities.
Camila Aguais
Through connecting with creative practitioners, developing my action research and challenging each other’s notions, I leave the residency with a heavy notebook and a buzzing mind of new ideas and questions for embracing the uncertainty of the future.

Can engaging the hands in a simple art activity help facilitate open discussion? How will the activity that I initiate be adapted and transformed as it is passed from one person to the next? How can I track the trajectory so that the people involved can locate themselves in this collective, durational project?

In these times of unease and isolation, I feel grateful for being part of this micro community and feeling that I can reach out and connect with creatives all over the world. The sharing, listening, exchanging, revisiting, questioning and collectively reflecting have made for an inspiring and fulfilling experience.

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