Pansy.
Four works exhibited as interconnected painting installations, comprising of Immersive video, oil painting and choreography
- Submitting institution
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David / Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-CW2
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Glynn Vivian Gallery Swansea
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- August
- Year of first exhibition
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- 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
- Pansy is an exhibition of collaborative work by Roy Efrat and Catrin Webster. The creative collaboration contemplates the interplay between traditional and digital painting processes and LGBTQI narratives to develop innovative and expansive painting processes and encourage LGBTQ visitors, while developing understanding and tolerance across the South Wales heteronormative community. The work draws on Efrat’s experiences in performance as an internationally acclaimed classical dancer and his dynamic use of video mapping, and Webster’s expansive approaches to painting within and beyond a gallery context. The collaborative paintings/video projections develop significant new ways of thinking in regard to painting practice. Through expanding the field of possibilities within the genre, to push the boundaries of traditional oil painting on canvas into a digital context, while also retaining fundamental properties of traditional painting practices, such as narrative and symbolic approaches. As a body of practice, Pansy demonstrates a major expansion of the possibilities for contemporary painting. The impact is immersive and inclusive, drawing on references from popular digital media and game design, and is fundamentally international in terms of visual language and reference. Within the context of the exhibition, the four paintings in the main galleries, together with the large scale canvas in the central foyer, work to cross-reference narratives and discourses around the materiality of painting and its potential interrelationship with film. Through the hybridisation of painting/projection, multiple layers of meaning emerge to engage and challenge an audience in a way that supersedes a more traditional approach to painting Dissemination: Exhibition: Glynn Vivian, Swansea, August 2020 - January 2021
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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