I will begin an 8 week residency in early January at Cardiff MADE, alongside 2 other artists; Kate Shooter and Eleanor Whiteman. “We are excited to kick off 2024 with the second of our Associates programme, Rub n Roll, an 8 week practice based residency leading up to an exhibition in March. We’re delighted…
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The call-out to Artists for Fringe Arts Bath Festival 2024 is now live. An exhibition I am curating with Amanda Roderick and Caroline Humphreys, will be a part of this year’s festival. ‘Deserters’ will explore the relationship between illness and making – does being one of the ‘unwell’, a ‘refusenik’, a ‘quiet-quitter’ engender creative processes?…
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Fringe Arts Bath Visual Arts Festival | 27 May – 11 June 2023Location: 44AD artspace, 4 Abbey Street Bath Who’s been sleeping in my bed? is an exploration of a theme both familiar but resonant: our entanglements and coexistence with animals. The exhibition encompasses – through a range of media from video to installation –…
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Come into the woods is a short word animation about storytelling and the implicit presence of animals. If we enter the woods we will be bewildered, lost and fearful. We may meet a wild beast or our own animal nature. We may be tested and succeed – or be eaten! ‘Come into the woods’ made…
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Play Is a Roomy Subject is an international exhibition, featuring works from Welsh andCanada-based artists, held at the University of Ottawa. The show variously exploresmetaphorical dynamics of play and care within space and relationships. Relationships, be that onan individual scale, or within communities and collectives, or even between humans and theirenvironment, all provide a crucial…
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curated by Bella Kerr & Amanda Roderick for Fringe Arts Bath 2022 “Society cares about the individual only insofar as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it”. Simone de Beauvoir, 1972 In Simone de Beauvoir’s…
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In the contemporary period we expect longevity – shorter lives may be glamorised but are also regretted as a failure to survive. This quiet conversation between my work and Will’s is a dialogue between mother and son – the drawings are the fragments of a longer and a shorter life, selected to reveal crossing points…
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Will Jones died this year at the age of 30 years. He studied History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and then worked as technician in several art galleries while developing his own practice as an artist. This background informed the movement between analysis and creativity, while more recent experience of living and working outside…
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This Autumn, several of my works on paper will be included in an exhibition at Galerie 115, University of Ottawa, Canada. Play is a Roomy Subject will be curated by Celina Jeffery in collaboration with uOttawa MFA Contemporary Curating students. My drawings will feature alongside work by several Canadian artists and the following artists with links to Wales: Hamish…
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This May, Bella Kerr will be co-curating The Coming of Age with Roderick & Jones as part of Fringe Arts Bath 2022. The call-out to Artists is now live and the deadline is Sunday 20th March 2022. Further details about The Coming of Age can found here For more information about the FaB Festival and…
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