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ART+
2021
'A Show Like No Other', Newcastle University Fine Art Degree Show, Ex Libris Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, June 5th-19th.
An entirely new artwork every 5 minutes. Never the same twice. Only seen by you.
More than 300 artworks created in two weeks.
Work comprised of a windowed workshop space full of materials, and a gallery space with a door. A team of three takes materials from the workshop and makes a work in 4 minutes which is then displayed in the gallery. The door is opened, and viewers are allowed to see the work for 1 minute. When the minute is up, the viewers must leave and the door is closed again. The work in the gallery is taken apart and a new one is made in its place, and so on. A briefing video plays in the middle of the space to mediate this process.
Image shows view from outside the Workshop space; A member of the logistics team is visible inside, working to prepare a new piece.
"Rocket Powered Scooter"*, an example piece from 'A Show Like No Other', Newcastle University Fine Art Degree Show, June 5th-19th.
View inside the Gallery space of a piece. The Rocket Powered Scooter was thought up and created in 4 minutes and then seen for 1 minute. In the following 4 minutes it was taken apart and an entirely new piece was made in its place.
Over the 2 week period over 300 such pieces were created, and none repeated.
Materials- Public Hire E-Scooter, office chair base, camera tripod, steel bird legs, latex gloves, iridescent wrap, fire blanket.
*work titles unofficial
'Fridgeboat Karaoke 001: Baka Mitai', 3m18s, 2021
One of two outcomes from a residency with VARC Hexham, the film chronicles the journey of a fridge door downstream as it encounters waterfalls, pollution, and a delicious roast chicken. It begins with a short prologue, which goes as follows:
A fridge door found discarded,
having been used as a sledge
undergoes conversion into a raft
and finds itself reincarnated
as the protagonist in a series of karaoke videos.
'Year 9 English Homework', 4m17s, 2021
One of two outcomes from a residency with VARC Hexham, the film takes the simple act of going for a walk as its premise, and expands from this innocuous starting point to become and inquisition into some of life's bigger questions.
2020
'Casting the Net', Fish Bowl Art Space, Newcastle upon Tyne, Dec 7th=11th
A show where bit part artefacts are arranged both playfully as organic matter that occupies the marginal spaces of the gallery, (such as between gaps, in corners, as floor dwellers, and clinging to the base of plinths), but also presentably, akin to findings of an expedition to an alien aquatic realm. Gravel, balloons, scuba masks and amazon prime packages coalesce and cohabit to make an artificial looking, organic feeling, whole. The show was added to over its duration, as though alive and growing, with some work even popping up beyond the gallery space.
The exhibition notes suggest considerations of -Giant liquid screens and surface tension. -Smoothing out a sea slug. -Teaching rocks how to think. -Digital, industrial, and fictional skin.
There was also a video exclusive to this show made with a GAN text-to-image generator and frame interpolation ai native to adobe premiere pro, featuring a soundtrack involving granular sampling and synthesis.
1st-4th December Newcastle upon Tyne, Life Room, 'Casting the Net'
The first iteration of the show, testing out a granular body of work. Part of a group install, this version featured a large sale mirror on the floor, and was only possible to view via a guided tour on zoom mobile video call. Gravel, balloons, scuba masks and amazon prime packages coalesce and cohabit to make an artificial looking, organic feeling, whole. The resulting experience was novel and disorienting, as each small artefact would appear suddenly on the video call feed without warning.
'Leaves Arranged in Heaton Park', House of Adam of Jesmond, Heaton Park, September
A culmination point from a body of work borne out of the struggles of working in lockdown which focused on arrangement as a creative act. Leaves were raked from across the surrounding area and arranged within the two remaining walls of the 13th century ruins. The process took an entire working day. The final result feels quietly monumental, changing the environment in a way that is subtle and not immediately arresting, but clear that some kind of conscious being has interfered. Without access to studios and materials restricted, and motivation hard to come by, the immediacy and simplicity of taking arrangement as a starting point proved to be empowering and informative. All of a sudden, inspiration was all around. It also honed a very important artistic instinct, the power to transform the everyday. into a subject of interest.
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