Through linear strokes, the artist depicts low resolution film stills of a Serbian folklore dance performed by her and her friends. In this series, she translates imagery of her family heritage to explore the delicate process of reconnection inspired by low resolution imagery created using analogue printing and filming techniques.
2022
Reclaimed materials including fallen tree branches, pallet wood and cast iron bench legs.
Dimensions: (w) 150 x (h) 85 x (d) 90 cm
A bench design dictated by found tree branches the artist carved a poem into, written to celebrate the rediscovery of local public green spaces and feeling in the present after a park walk in lockdown to the sound of a saxophonist playing in the open air. This piece is the transformation of a sensory experience from written word to sculptural form, responding to our desire for space at a time of uncertainty and restrictions.
(Recently exhibited at To build a bench solo exhibition including the launch of Live @ The Bench).
2023
Digital prints on paper, dimensions variable.
Digital photographs of found Letting Go Plates fragments printed to form a large format montage on gallery floor covered with transparent mat inviting visitors to walk on piece.
Adapted for display at To build a bench exhibition.
"Letting Go Plates became a popular trend during the pandemic, especially with teenagers, as a way of coping with anxiety and frustration. They would write on plates poems, stories, memories, etc. with meaning and smash them as a way of letting go of them and shedding their burden."
2019
Consisting of:
Interactive installation of a hand made paper flip book of digital prints on paper accompanied by digital soundtrack of a piano composition by the artist via wireless headphones. Dimensions of flip book: (height) 7 x (width) 9.5 cm, length variable (bound to 10.7 m long tailor-made shelf for recent display).
Digital stop motion film with the same digital soundtrack. Duration: 1 minute and 6 seconds on loop.
An exercise in concentration and consciousness. Based on an image of a curtain which has been the trigger of this exploration of more sensitive ways of viewing moving images. The viewer is presented with two translations of the same stop motion film. Starting with a flip book of all the film frames methodically bound by hand accompanied by an original soundtrack, integrated into the architecture of the gallery via a tailor-made shelf along the main staircase, as an interactive installation and ending with a display of a digital colour version of the film.
In the film we see a curtain battling to filter the brightness of the light behind it that tries to punch through with its pushy independence at the hit of each note on the piano.
Both the installation and the film offer different effects on the senses by using a musical composition, variations in colour saturation and touch to conduct an independent viewing of the moving images that is most comfortable for the individual.
Exhibited at:
Taivassa group exhibition, Hirvitalo- Centre of Contemporary Art Pispala, Finland, 2019.
2021
Digital renders
Dimensions variable
(Installation shots from AORA: V 'nature/nurture' virtual exhibition situated in The Garden at AORA Space).
"But a few scattered across the field walking to the free play of the saxophonist. I begin to recognize the song he riffs to and then it fades away. 'Young hearts, run free, never be hung up, hung up like my man and me.'
He paces the field as he breathes into his saxophone and I gaze upon the distant view and the endless green smiling to his distant melodies that come and go like a gentle wind on a calm still day.
He doesn't need an audience, he just continues. Free to play to his heart's content and as loud as can be in the open field near me."
2019 Four suspended digital prints on paper Each 3 x 1 m
A montage of digitally enlarged photocopies of found lamp post images intersecting the open industrial gallery space of ASC Art House Croydon studio community.
Exhibited at Art House Croydon Open Studios Group Exhibition in September 2019. As part of the first open studios event at ASC Art House Croydon studios, where I am a resident artist, I curated an open group exhibition of works by the resident artists and designers in the main gallery space.
I am always looking for opportunities to work closely with local communities to develop my interest in site specific storytelling. Observing and respecting the character of existing places and buildings is important to me across all my projects and has led to my participation in pop-up exhibitions in existing establishments, dealing with the multi-layered and overlapping history of buildings. In my work, I like to focus on translating the pure spirit of an individual or collective experience of a place or an event as a lingering memory. Here are two key examples of my pop-up exhibition work in Denmark…
2018
Lasered 2D photo crystal of a fabric name tag placed on an electric rotating base with LED colour changing light. (Crystal) 6 x 4 x 2 cm (base) 8 x 4.5 cm
2016
Recording of choreographed live solo performance featuring the artist whistling a melody accompanied by a digital video projection.
1 minute and 20 seconds
Performed at PARTY exhibition, a group exhibition in response to the theme of an intimate all night party event, with a schedule of performances and DJ sets amongst other mixed media works installed at KUNSTHAL ved siden af project space in Svendborg, Denmark.
“As the performer in Grace Yourself, I take the opportunity of a crowded party atmosphere to experiment with resonating the feeling of an entrance and exit.” A digitized wax drawing of an ornate leaf motif glows onto one wall of the space as a distant whistle approaches. The projection and the whistling figure gracefully dress each other creating, in turn, a temporal ceremonial moment.
