Artist As Curator

A photograph of me, gallery assistant, from the installation of Corinne Day’s, See How We Are exhibition, Plymouth College of Art Gallery, 2012 – Photographed by Lesley-Jo Thompson

I am currently studying BA Fine art critical and curatorial practices at Plymouth College of Art. The following blog will display various research, reviews, artists, galleries, I have visited within my third year.

I’m a conceptual artist based in the South West. I work with appropriation, post-production, photography, collage sound and video. Through my practice I explore ideas of sex, relationships and how we engage and respond to this. I utilise my own experiences and those of others to at first glance present half-truths, presenting the audience with a warped perception of who I am as a person. Often my work has humorous overtones, to enable the audience to connect with my work and release the often-overlooked melancholy elements of human nature and how we relate to one another.

Previously I have explored social anthropology and social identity through collaboration with Tess Yates, which then moved on into performance as fake narrative. Artists that have influenced my work are performance groups such as VestAndPage, Rocio Boliver and Liz Argus. I am also really interested in Curatorial practices, through collaboratively curating exhibitions I have realised the importance of curation and the way we can link artists through a concept, which picks on their own practices. This practice has influenced my own work in the way that I choose to exhibit my pieces; this permits me to further strengthen its concept through the format the work is displayed.

Education:
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Critical and Curatorial Practices – 1st Class Honours

Professional Practice:

2014
Spike Island Studio Fellowship (6^th October, 2014 – 6^th January, 2015)
Synaesthesia, Collaborative Artist and Curator, The Orangery, Saltram House, National Trust (19^th June – 31^st July 2014)
Dis. Is Serious, Hyde Park Exhibitions, Dis.Collective (24th April, 2014)
Front of House Duty Manager, Plymouth Arts Centre  (8th April, 2014)
Shortlisted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 (1st April, 2014)
Community Arts Project, Archival Exhibition, Mantle Gardens, Collaborative Curator, Studio 11, Plymouth College of Art (8th March, 2014)
Community Arts Project, Barne Barton Loves Art, Collaborative Curator, Tamar View (13th February, 2014)
VestAndPage May Day performance workshop and collaborative performance, KARST ( 20th January –  24th January 2014)
Project Assistant, KARST ( January 2014 – Present)
Intern for BBROOTS, (September 2013 – March 2014)
Intern at KARST Gallery (September 2013 – January 2014)

2013
Scribble it down, International Art Project, Emergent Art Space (October 2013 – Present)
Collaborative Publication, The GPS Brought Me Here (July, 2013)
Boum Participation piece shown representing Fine Art department for Plymouth College of Art, Piazza, Plymouth (June, 2013)
Boum Archive exhibition, curator and participating artist, Lift Gallery, Plymouth College of Art (June, 2013)
Artist assistant for Low Profile’s exhibition Against All Odds, Exeter Phoenix (May, 2013)
Performative intervention, The Marmite Prize for Painting (May 2013)
Performance for Bryony Gillard’s exhibition In the boom of the tingling strings (April, 2013)
Boum participation event, curator and participating artist, Studio 11, Plymouth College of Art (April 2013)
Artist assistant for Abigail Reynolds exhibition New Light (February, 2013)
Exhibition volunteer at Plymouth Museum Heritage and Arts (January – February 2013)
Crysalis Metamorphosis International Collaborative Art Project (January, 2013)

2012
Namaak collaborative exhibition, curator and participating artist, Lift Gallery, Plymouth College of Art (November, 2012)
Exhibition assistant at Plymouth College of Art Gallery (2012 – 2013)

Other:

Safeguarding Staff Training, Plymouth College of Art (February, 2014)
Bar Training, Plymouth College of Art, (February, 2014)
Student Ambassador, Plymouth College of Art (December 2013- Present)
LSIS, Safeguarding Course (September, 2013)
Student Advisory Forum for the Higher Education Academy (2013- On going)
Shortlisted for Student Corporation Prize at Plymouth College of Art (May 2013)

References:
Hannah Jones, Exhibitions Officer,
Emma Phillips, Exhibitions Officer,
Carl Slater, Director, KARST,
Donna Howard, Director, KARST.