Artist and BSL/English Interpreter
Exhibition/clothing exchange running at Platform 1 Gallery from Thursday 13th Sep to Tuesday 18th Sep.
A chance to see what I’ve been up to since March!
https://www.facebook.com/events/209932309561225/?ti=as
Hilary Champion | Cate Field | Laura Greenway
Yeonhwa Kim | Susan Merrick | Dora Schluttenhofer Lees
Recent graduates from MA Fine Art, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
PV Friday 20 April 18.00-20.00
Exhibition runs Fri 20 – Sat 28 April 12.00-17.00
(Closed Monday + Tuesday)
Echo Control is a group show featuring six recent graduates from the MA Fine Art course at UCA Farnham using film, photography, socially engaged practice, performance, digital print, sculpture, painting and installation. The work examines control through the lens of the personal, the social, the institutional, the media and the state. The title refers to the reverberations of control found in all aspects of our lives; multiple iterations and manifestations of the forces that surrounds us.
Hilary Champion’s practice focuses on the ideological state apparatus and its control of alternative facts, mis-truths and post-truths. Champion uses this as the basis for a body of text-based work, all under the guise of the fictitious Office for Global Improvement (OGI). Announcements and messages purporting to emanate from the OGI form installations adapted to the sites they inhabit.
Cate Field’s work explores how urban locations control their inhabitants. Using sound and film, she creates artworks from the physical environment. The film of the escalator at Westminster tube station captures fleeting moments of commuters; a multiple layered narrative of people moving through the space.
Laura Greenway’s multidisciplinary work uses repetition to explore personal control, fear of intimacy, vulnerability and visibility from her own experience living with mental illness. The work uses performance, film, drawing and painting as a means to document and explore these ideas.
Yeon Hwa Kim collects traces of marks made by users of waste IT products reanimated as a series of films. Fingerprints extracted from analogue TV’s rendered into charcoal, form complex animations. Images of waste mobile phones examine corporate control and the over proliferation of IT gadgets we consume and discard.
Susan Merrick utilises her professional interpreting training to consider ideas around translation. Her research into Holloway women’s prison culminates into an installation investigating the boundaries between artist, audience and the state. The work is distributed through social media, video and live streaming, ensuring access to her work is democratised.
Dora Schluttenhofer Lees’s digital prints are informed by the investigation of girl culture and female solidarity. The work examines feminist culture and social control, to excogitate the notion of female identity and constructed gender. Her practice works across digital media, drawing and film.
March for me has been about kickstarting Statements in Semaphore for 2018. Meeting with artists and partners including the wonderful Platform 1 Gallery and getting workshops organised. Lots of fun, travelling and emails!!
To read more about it visit the project website blog here.
I’ve also been preparing for the upcoming group show that I am involved in, Echo Control at Division of Labour Gallery in April. This show is exciting as it is with the group I graduated with and we have the opportunity to show some of our work again from the grad show, but with some developments relevant to our practice in the last six months!
I will be showing some of the work that came out of my work with the Holloway Prison site, work that ultimately came from the research and work of my Statements in Semaphore project. However showing this work in a white space gallery immediately posed an interesting question for me. How does my work relate to this space?
Well, I have been able to answer it in two ways. Firstly, the gallery ‘Division of Labour’ is a gallery that focuses on work that is social/political and that normally challenges the commercial field of Art. (Well that fits!). However it is also important for me to think about how this work connects back to the original site (Holloway) and how my work and the audience can access one another. With this in mind I have decided to head to the Holloway site again on the opening day. I will check if the item I left at the site remains, and I will then walk the 4.3 miles from the site to the gallery, bringing the item with me. I will be attempting to live stream the walk, connecting the sites through a digital mapping of the spaces inbetween.
The show is open from April 20th – April 29th (closed Mon,Tue) and the live stream will happen on my FB page on April 20th approx 5pm-6:30pm Division of Labour, 13-16 Herald St, London E2 6JT
https://www.facebook.com/statementsinsemaphore/
and more info about the show can be found on the next post!
Please take a nosy at my blog posts from Floating Island Gallery.
It has been fantastic to have a space that allowed me to take stock, reflect, be playful and consider my practice in a new type of space.
I am soooooooo pleased to announce that I was successful in getting an Individual Artist Grant from Arts Council Egland again!
This grant will allow me to take my project Statements in Semaphore through 2018 working with two amazing organisations who support women who are survivors of Domestic Violence, and also to work with some more amazing artists who will run workshops with me and collaborate with me to respond to the dialogue that comes from and through the project.
To keep an eye on what we are doing (March to September) visit the FB page https://www.facebook.com/statementsinsemaphore
or the website www.statementsinsemaphore.co.uk
Thanks!!