Along with 5 other art academy group artists I have just completed a week long residency at Manchester’s historic Victoria Baths.    Working with Alison Kershaw artist, curator and associate of Pool Arts, we wanted to explore what an artists residency can be.  As each of us has our own disciplines, we are all responding in different ways, although there is a collaborative element to the project as we are working together. I am interested in the phenomenology of the space, this restoration building, suspended in time as a museum to swimming nostagia and a symbol of a former age of …