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After Dark Gallery Charity Art Auction. 2012

The Loft, Ship Street Brighton.

an exciting event raising money for Barnado's children's charity. Artyworks donated by over 30 artists some known nationally and internationally.

http://www.afterdarkgallery.co.uk

 

poster for the charityevent

Now You See Me, Now You Don't. 2011

Bath Scientific and Literary Institution

measuring my body, changing it into data, ignores my persnality and emotions. How then do young people feel about this process being done to them?

changing a neck into numbers

Sport, Disability and Art. 2011

University of Bath

researching what sport and physical activity means to disabled people.

(photo Emma Rich)

label hung on a barrier  saying limits

Respect3. 2011

Bath Literary and Scientific Institution

There is a power struggle for the bodies of everyday people. Who is in charge? Those outside the 'norm' are labelled 'other' and are discarded, shunned, despised. Identities are socially constructed through age, class, disablity, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexuality... and size.

(photo Sally Lemsford)

a wall made from sand dolls

Respect2. 2011

Deda- Art Auction raising funds for victims of the Pakistani floods: performance

and a body flung till its innards split and spill, demands attention; says 'Don't forget us in your hurry to get on with your cosy lives'.

(photo Karen Veness)

laying out sand figures with respect

100 Wishes Banners. 2010

Chesterfield Garden of Light: installation

100 people to make them, 1000s to see them billow and sing in the wind.

(photo Sally Lemsford)

100 decoarted banners at a festival of light

9 Minutes Movement. 2010

Movement Gallery, Worcestor Foregate Street Station: live art

In 1840 Worcestor people lost 9 minutes when the railways insisted on standardising time for their timetables.

(photo Sally Lemsford)

showing lost 9 minutes when time standardised


Respect. 2010

Wirksworth Arts Festival: live art with Stef Smith

Peoples swept up and away in the floodwater become indistinguishable from the sandbags stacked to hold back the flow unless we afford them care and respect.

(photo Sally Lemsford)

sand doll thrown on the ground disrespectfully

 

The Nector Inspectors. 2010

Wirksworth Arts Festival: live art

With Stef Smith and Ann Leblanc, searching, measuring, sometimes finding.

(photo JP Deacon)

3 nector inspectors measuring people for their sweetness

 

Conversations. 2008->

with Tan Draig, David Gilbert, Sara Giddens, Kate Pahl, Steve Pool, Sandra Greatorex, Bill Drummond, Tim Neal, Sarah Burgess, Julian Burgess, Stephen Walker, Terry O'Connor, Ruth Ben-Tovim, Julia Dobson, Andrew Martyn Sugar, Deborah Chadbourne, Nick Nuttgens...

A space in which to engage in stimulating discourse with other artists/ curators/ ethnographers/ architects... It begins by looking inward locally and develops into an intellectual journey travelling outwards regionally, nationally and internationally.

How can we develop an artists' network in which the participants are 'agents of critique or subversion' (Dave Beech, 2008) rather than passive acceptance of usual network parameters?

What are the rules of participation?

If the contemporary practice of art is not object-based, but is relational (both in terms of subject and form), what is the purpose and function of the curator?

When does an artwork become sacred?

Bling: gold and its value, objects and their value?

If 'the very urge to make recorded music is a redundant and creative dead-end' (Bill Drummond, 2006), what is the motivation to produce hard copy artworks?

Notions of the authentic self in relational anthropological epistemologies

Why do we give objects more status than spaces between them?

The sublime.

Journeys, tours, guides and getting lost.

Accepting before moving on.

Where is the dividing line between journey and destination?

Ideology

Why are words a luxury for visual artists?

Dancing.

Equality and fairnes.

 

600 billion nanoseconds. 2007

Arnolfini: live art 

I am your worst nightmare: blood, gore and spiders? No- confusion, boredom, oddity?

Secretly hidden, I pierce the bag with 30 long wooden skewers, burst out and leave.

(photo Carl Newland)

bag with skewers emerging-is it empty?

 

Maze. 2007

Derbyshire: video

People disappear, reappear... captured by the film-maker who is herself present within the soundtrack.

(photo Sally Lemsford)

person disappearing round a hedge in Chatsworth maze

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