My practice comes in the form of tours and lectures, reflecting my enthusiasm for the tools of academia, re-presentations of cultural narratives and the promotion of an honest live element. Architectural features are reconstructed and displaced, performed on and vacated. Autobiographical references anchored to site are traded and historical monuments are remixed to juxtapose time, structure and place.
I am part of DARTER, a group of three artists - Chloe Cooper, Phoebe Davies, Louisa Martin - who make art in response to particular social contexts. With a predominantly live or performative approach, DARTER's work aims to playfully interrupt established social codes and conventions that shape or frame how we perceive an event, interaction or architectural space. Working with and responding to specific contexts and audiences, DARTER appropriates and subverts behavioural norms, documentary media and the tools of academia in order to explore how meaning is constructed collectively.
DARTER were Whitechapel Gallery Artists in Residence for the year 2010-11 and as such were based within a secondary school in Hackney from September 2010 until July 2011. An exhibition of the work produced as part of this residency will be on show at Whitechapel Gallery from December 2011 until February 2012.Their current work with LIFT/Artsadmin for Plunge represents DARTER's next public presentation.
DARTER is concerned with autonomous modes of information sharing, group activity and self-organising. DARTER (formerly Junto:Projects) was formed following their peer led mentoring project Junto:Mentor, developed and delivered with Daniel Oliver, Emma Leach and Jieun Lee.
EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES/RESIDENCIES
2011
AiR Artists in Residence, Whitechapel Gallery, London
THIS IS NOT A SCHOOL, Five Years, London
BAT Pack II, Mile End Art Pavilion, London
2010
BAT Pack, Mile End Art Pavilion, London
Open Studios, P1, London
2009
50 Not Out! The Montague Arms, London
What Line Isn’t that Anyone? Resonance FM, London
The Work In Progress Presents: Noisy Image, Café Oto, London
Ten Seconds on Speed, Oubliette Arthouse at the Mexican Embassy, London
2008
Live Art on Petticoat Lane, Whitechapel Gallery, London
The Fete Encounter, Camp Bestival, Dorset
Home Live Art Village Fete, National Theatre, London
The Fete Encounter, Whitstable Biennial, Whitstable
The Fete Encounter, Fierce Festival, Various Locations, Birmingham
Rules and Regs, Southampton
Start, Trash, Leeds
Passage European Forum For Young Artists, Beursshouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
2007
Artgos, The Art Market, Leeds
Emergency, Greenroom, Manchester
Yomu Visual Arts Festival, Various Locations, York
Fresh Meat, The Art Market, Leeds
If This Ain’t Art, Why Does It Feel So Good? Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds
Get Your Tits Out, Custard Factory, Birmingham
RESIDENCIES
2010 – 2011 AiR Artists in Residence, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2008 Rules and Regs, Southampton