Connect: Katowice - London: a collaboration, exchange, 2 exhibitions and critical writing
- Submitting institution
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De Montfort University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32088
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Rondo Gallery, Katowice, Poland; Ply Gallery, Hornsey Town Hall Arts Centre, London
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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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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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- My practice and research process frequently develop as a two-fold method:
1. a personal, studio-based form of research making centred around painting that extends to
2. public, collaborative forms of curating, producing, co-ordinating and delivering visual art projects and exhibitions with a cultural, artistically investigative, social or educational angle.
This approach opens a conversation, sparking social exchange, and informing the relationship between personal studio work with public collaboration; figuration with abstraction; painting with drawing. drive and probe my inquiry around – how we perceive identity, change, and encounters – human tangibility.
With Connect: Katowice – London, 2016-2017, Funded by the Arts Council England & British Council I initiated a British-Polish year-long collaboration, international exchange and series of exhibitions (in both London and Katowice) involving thirty-five artists (Chelsea Collage of Art postgraduate alumnae and students of the Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland) in partnerships ‘Connections’. Using identity, observations/ perception and social exchange to drive the project; I employed collaborative curation and exchange as a means to investigate European identity and communication.
The research created a discourse between the artist, the space and the audience, surveying the balance between what is outwardly facing and what we keep to ourselves via a British-Polish dialogue. The experimental nature of the project reflected the interconnection of the roles of artists and curators creating an opportunity to question the foundational role of perception in understanding our own worlds and the worlds of others. The new networks offered fresh perspectives for creating artworks, forms of display, future discourse and studio growth both individually and collectively. The co-creation elicited new understandings of how we implement gesture in drawing currently fuelling my present studio practice.
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- Non-English
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