Another two great shortlistings – The Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary for the second year running, and the Unlimited Commission for the Northern Festivals Network. Didn’t get ’em, but yay me for getting shortlisted. The ARMB shortlistings book-end my year-long run of being shortlisted for cool shit that I fail to get. Methinks I may be somewhat lacking in follow-through…
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Berger
I was very tickled by John Berger’s observations on the female nude in art: “the ‘ideal’ spectator is always assumed to be male and the image of the woman is designed to flatter him”. I wanted to create an imagery that made this manifest. This is installed in a dark space using six lights with…
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The Breathing Room prototype (RnD supported by Unlimited) is showing as part of the Unlimited Festival at Southbank until the end of Sunday 9th September. It’s v exciting having your work tweeted by The South Bank Centre! Here’s me looking all pleased with myself pointing to my name on the blurb (ok, half of my…