In April I was selected to take part in the Cambridge Sustainability Residency 2016. The theme of the residency was insulation and growth in relation to sustainability. My proposal was to consider the psychological aspects affecting the responsibility (ie the ability to respond) to the specific issues on sustainability that I experience in the context […]
Exhibition review – Eva & Franco Mattes. Abuse Standards Violations
Exhibition Review Eva and Franco Mattes Abuse Standards Violations at Carroll/Fletcher, Eastcastle Street, London 10 June to 27 August 2016 by Tiffany Robinson The exhibition comprises a series of installations across three rooms interconnected by wire cables suspended above head height in a wire mesh. Focusing on the first room my initial impression of Dark […]
Sense of place
I’ve just listened to Radio 4 Start The Week for today (29 December 2014) and to Victoria Crowe, artist, who in talking about her significant place described beech trees and her relationship to the landscape: “beech trees which describe the way the wind blows, they describe the prevailing wind by the very form of them…with […]
Drawing, line and gesture – seminar at Fabrica with Tania Kovats, Jerwood, FRAC Picardie and the Drawing Room London
23rd July 2014 6:00pm-8:00pm Notes PRESENTERS: Kate MacFarlane, Co-Director and Curator of the Drawing Room, London, a not-for-profit gallery dedicated to the investigation and presentation of international contemporary drawing. Prof. Anita Taylor, Director of the Jerwood Drawing Prize, the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK. Yves Lecointre, Director of FRAC Picardie – a […]
Open Forum event with Matt Roberts, BlueMonkey Network and Transition Gallery
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Enchantment and Embodiment
I’ve been thinking about why I have this fascination with human forms found in trees. My latest film captures the movement of Ash as light changes branches from a sunlight web to dark, haunting fingers. But the form remains, it’s the effect of wind, movement, light that change it, animate it, bring it to life. […]
Treenude studies in oils
Have you ever noticed just how figurative trees can be? Have you ever seen the faces, torsos in your photographs, limbs that you didn’t discover until you looked at them back home? Some are astonishingly realistic so no wonder (see Forest) that many myths, legends and fairy tales take you to the deepest, darkest forest. […]
‘Grimm Girls: Picturing the Princes’ Sussex Folklore and Fairy Tale Symposium – University of Chichester 25.11.13
There is currently an exhibition at the Otter Gallery at the Uni – ‘Grimm Girls: Picturing the ‘Princess’. It’s full of books and illustrations, images that children gazed at whilst someone read to them, stories full of witches, castles, forests, princesses and heroes. What was missing was art inspired by these tales, the kind of […]