We are looking for 2 artists-in-residence to explore Holocaust Centre North Archive and respond to themes they feel have contemporary relevance. Are you interested in working with archives as part of your creative practice? Would you like to gain experience in navigating challenging subject matter in your work? Are you interested in how artistic practices can create spaces for critical exploration and nuanced conversations around current and past events? Do you work with difficult histories and would like to be supported in a collective learning environment? Are you interested in exploring questions on how we remember atrocity? Do you want to develop new ways of using local and lesser-known stories to share the global history of the Holocaust? The Memorial Gestures Residency Programme will support two artists with self-directed research into Holocaust Centre North's Archive and its survivor community. Holocaust Centre North is a museum based in Huddersfield which tells the story of Jewish survivors of the Nazi genocide who rebuilt their lives in the North of England. We care for the collections of over 150+ Jewish refugees and families. The Iby Knill Bursaries will support 2 artists with £6000 each over the course of an 8-month remote residency. Artists are invited to explore our collection by responding to stories and themes they feel have contemporary relevance. Artists will be working alongside 4 other creative practitioners in-residence and are expected to join regular seminars and discussion groups (mostly online) which form a crucial element of the collective learning structure of the Memorial Gestures Programme. This year our artist-in-residences include micro-residencies with Invisible Flock. We welcome applications from artists working across disciplines. Info sessions will be held March 24th at 12.30 PM & at 5.30 PM.