Videos on display at Construction Gallery in Tooting over the coming months, open Wednesday to Sunday 12pm – 7pm

Laura and Lauren

Sean Hawkridge

Ross Robertson

Baptiste Croze

Library from Heather Jones on Vimeo.

2007-2009 Fine Art MA – Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique (DNSEP), Grenoble, France.
2003-2008 Fine Art (European) BA – with Honours Class 1, Leeds, England.
2006-2007 Diplôme National d’Arts Plastiques (DNAP) – with Distinction, Grenoble, France.

Workshops

06/2011 Artist facilitator of school workshops at October Gallery.
07/2010-2011 Artist facilitator of the Sunday Spot, weekly family workshop at the South London Gallery.
11/2010 Co-leader of two-day Live art workshop at the University of Leeds.
10/2010-2011 Facilitator of school workshops at the South London Gallery.
06/2010 Interference co-ordinator at ArtsAdmin, Toynbee Studios, a week-long workshop exploring art and activism.

Selected performances and exhibitions

01/2012 Construction Gallery, Tooting, London.

12/2011 Laura and Lauren’s Arty Party, Dirty Dicks, London.
12/2011 Open Exhibition, Peckham Space.

10/2010 Touch Village, collaborative performance, A Foundation, Liverpool as part of the Liverpool Biennial.
07/2010 YES/NO – a subjective definition of synergy, performance Kastrupgard, Copenhagen.
05/2010 ArtEvict, collaborative performance, 195 Mare Street, London.
02/2010 Intervilles, video screening at Walthamstow Square, Liverpool.
02/2010 Avatars, Saison Video 2010, www.saisonvideo.com
01/2010 Tension, Intervention and Restraint, collaborative performance at Waterside Project Space, London.

07/2009 In Transit, Video Screenings, Gallery Luda, St. Petersburg, Russia.
05/2009 Zugzwang, issue 3, www.slashseconds.org online exhibition.
03/2009 Volatil, Saison Vidéo 2009, www.saisonvideo.com
01/2009 Fenêtre sur Rue, video at Galérie Martainville, Rouen, France.

11/2008 Retold, M.Use Arena House, Liverpool.
06/2008 Wunderkammer, University of Leeds, Leeds.
05/2008 Autumn Tree, video installation, Leeds Parish Church, Leeds.
05/2008 You’ve Got Some Explaining To Do, performance at The Common Place, Leeds.
04/2008 En Chantier, video, VOG, Fontaine, France.
02/2008 In Between II and On the Edge videos shown in the play Tales of Iris, PCI Festival, University of Leeds, Leeds.
01/2008 LFA, video installation and performance, Holy Trinity Arts Centre, Leeds.

09/2007 Sway, Analix Forever Gallerie, Geneva, Switzerland.
02/2007 Les Impromptus, Lieu d’Images et d’Art, now the Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble, France.
01/2007 Art in-pg, Ève, Grenoble, France.

10/2006 Light Night, Holy Trinity Church, Leeds.
03/2006 Sortie, VOG, Fontaine, France.

05/2004 Neither/Nor, University of Leeds, Leeds.

Documentation from an intervention made as part of Interference 2010, a week of workshops about arts and activism run by ArtsAdmin. The workshop explored how art can be used actively in the world, to challenge the system that’s in place in our society and seek to find new ways of doing things.

Maximizing on the focus placed on the world cup at the time, we took to the streets as eco-refs, giving red cards to people who are making a negative impact on the environment. We went to the Royal Bank of Scotland, one of the world’s largest investors in oil, gas and coal, a trade that is producing irreparable damage on the environment. It was bailed out by £50 billion of public money last year during the financial crisis. We also went to the front of the European Climate Exchange, a company that enables businesses to buy their way out of making carbon emissions. We gave red cards with information on them to business men and took a stand outside these key places.

More photos from the week here.

Click on the link to download a free glossary for arts and activism produced during Interference:
A is for Action edited by Julie Hill

A box sits in a room, abandoned, pushed to the side. There’s a slow cutting noise, knife through cardboard and… pop! Out comes a finger. And then another finger, maybe a tongue, and a toe. Then nothing for a while. Then some more cutting. This time, a leg. Toe, foot, heel, ankle, calf… thigh. Who’s are these bits? Who do they belong to?

Is that my hand or yours? Your toe or my face?
Is that your eye or my belly button?
Is that your bottom or my cheek?
Is that your elbow or my tongue?
Is that my lips or your leg?
Is that my eyebrow or your chest hair?

This performance is a playful piece about the higgledy-piggledy in relationships, the place where we end and others begin, the place where we mix-up.

ArtEvict

Tension, Intervention and Restraint

Saison Video

YES/NO – a subjective definition of synergy, Kastrupgård, Kastrupvej 399, Kastrup, Denmark

A video of a tree composed of over a hundred pieces, disintegrates and recomposed itself.