This is my first blog entry. Ever. I am excited to write about my practice. I would like to say thanks to Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley of Zeitgeist Art Projects for their recommendation of writing a blog on the A-N website. I had a chance to chat with them both during my portfolio review/advice session in June. It was a productive meeting, and I came away with many new ideas and insights about my work:
Just to give a bit of background information about my practice, I am currently on the Matt Roberts ALAS (Artist Led Art Society) Autumn Residency in London, in which a group of artists are mentored towards their personal and group development. The goal of the 5-week residency is to participate in one-to-one crits, lectures, Saturday gallery tours, studio time and a final group exhibition. The ultimate aim is to create an artist led society of peers to network and exhibit with during our 5 weeks together and for the future.
To find out more about the residency, please read the excellent A-N blog of fellow ALAS resident, Bernice Wilson, titled ‘???’
My blog is project based and will focus on my artistic process, specifically on the next 36 days of creating a video installation for the ALAS residency exhibition, opening on the 8th of November.
I have a little over a month to design my video installation, which I chose for this residency exhibition, as my last installation was for the East Wing 8 exhibition Time and Time again :An Evening of Performance Art:
My work then took a bit of an unexpected U-turn to incorporate group performances with former Central St Martins peers in The Dogfood Idea.
Creating another installation is like returning to what I know best, re-visiting a part of my practice that I chose to ignore for awhile. I also tend to treat my installations as a kind of theatrical setting, which locates the work in a certain place and time, underscoring remnants of memory and history.
I am inspired by the artist Piplotti Rist and her use of small projectors in her installations. In previous exhibitions, I have projected animations and moving images onto objects of furniture in large rooms. For example, through curtains on a massive canopy bed. and onto an old german radio during a video residency at Art Claims Impulse Gallery:
But I would like to do something on a much smaller scale as at the moment, I have chosen a tiny space to use in the exhibition. Time to reference ideas in regards to my most recent animation that will become a part of the installation.
To be continued…
