A Time lapse of my live writing performance MIND LIBRARY, this piece was made from my journals from the 5 years previous, it was all about letting the public crawl inside my head and read my darkest fears, silliest secrets and know my truth. It was a experiment in vulnerability and felt like an important part of healing journey. 5 hour long performance. 2024
interacting with my environment in gratitude, exploring ritual inside and around my steel standing stone wip sculpture. @grufffffffffffff on photography :)
A super fast walk through of 'THE GUESTS' collaborative show at the end of our two week residency @backlanewest in the town of Redruth 'drudh' meaning treasure in Cornish. We created work from haptic learning, performance, archives, collections and performance. Thanks to all who came and supported. We called ourselves the guests as we're aware of our outsiderness in this tight knit community and we wanted to make work as guests in a place and truly get to know the people, history and should of the place. We felt accepted with open arms and we collected stories and smiles.
THE FOOL AND THE REBEL my dissertation performance with costumes I made, I was exploring the rise of nationalist politics and the folk tradition revival and how they interact and challenge each other. I wanted to create something of my own that contains elements of folk dance, fictioning, theater, nationalism and resolution. There is a magic of putting on a costume, you are bewitching the viewer to see you as different or more than yourself. It's a garment of transformation. A becoming. You inhabit something else; you inhabit someone else. Like the old folk tales of those who could change their skin. Become a hare, raven, seal or even another human. Shrouded in a layer of disguise.
The performance is a ritual, a dance, a conversation, discourse between values and understanding of the land.
In this costume I will become a critique, a fool, a theory, an opinion. My performance partner embodies a rebel to mainstream narrative, a person of the land, a connected one.
I believe it should be me- the artist to wear the costume that represents the darker side of humanity, to be uncomfortable and investigate what it means to bear that burden. I want to try to understand, to force myself to question the views of others but also my own views.
Our new collective, 'The Guests' invite you to our open studio on Saturday 10-2.
Come and see what we've been up to on our beautiful 2 week residency at Back Lane West <3
Make Britain pagan again Piece about Reclaiming our lost stories, forgotten histories and loving the land. Made with the DIY gold leaf - golden chocolate wrapper, wood, gesso, chain and good ole biro .
A summer project i just finished of a bejazzelled funky waistcoat that started plain. All hand sewn using recycled materials. Thinking of selling her so message me if you have taken a fancy……
35mm film photos of me doing a live painting performance in December for my mid year show , explored movement medicine as a way to release trauma in the body. Duration 1 hour . 📷 @grufffffffffffff
