‘Collision Drive’ is an international co-curated project concerned with the relationship between painting and collage, and the specific dialogue within contemporary painting. It includes a series of exhibitions: ‘Collision Drive 1’, Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts, London; ‘Collision Drive 2’, Project Space Plus, University of Lincoln; ‘Collision Drive 3’, RMIT Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne
- Submitting institution
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Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 900
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts, London; Project Space Plus, University of Lincoln; RMIT Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne.
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2019
- URL
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https://figshare.com/s/d3ecb3fcfce5b0226d60
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This international co-curated project concerned the relationship between painting and collage, and the specific dialogue within contemporary painting which engages with using collections of found images as a secondary source for generating new artwork. The ‘research through practice’ working methodology linking together two physically distanced artists in two countries, UK and Australia, utilized an innovative approach where geographic location and an exchange of ideas through
online discussion, lead to an evolving concept developing within the project as a critique of process, originality, information systems and cultural hybridity.
Using contemporary painting’s discourse with the found image as a starting point, Collision Drive lead to a new extended debate which allowed the location and context for each exhibition to drive each stage, as site-responsive projects. The first exhibition, Collision Drive 1 (Wimbledon Space, 2019), resulted from a successful response to UAL’s 2018 ‘Portal’ competition for externally-curated projects at Wimbledon College of Arts. This exhibition brought in spatial and architectonic elements, dramatically shifting the context of the project, through innovative installations and scaled-up wall painted inserts of geometric colour.
In the 3rd exhibition, Collision Drive 3 (RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, 2019), diverse material elements from the inclusion of 6 additional artists, brought a range of challenges which questioned accepted notions of materiality and production, critiquing the role of both collage and painting within contemporary art. Underlying questions raised by this project included the relationship between diverse artistic practices which are underpinned by similar research methodologies.
Collision Drive originally examined the critical context for collage at the beginning of C21st within contemporary art practice. Rooted in painting’s relation to the sourcing and repositioning of pre-existing images, a new expanded idea for collage was developed, in relation other models of art production such as sculpture, installation and architecture.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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