I’ve had two two pieces of work selected for the exhibition Where Are We Now? at Thelma Hulbert Gallery. Moral Compass is an artist’s book containing a reimagining of the compass rose and Travel Documents is a pair of porcelain doll’s legs, a meditation on migration and bureaucracy. They are both responses to the difficulties of navigating an increasingly complex and unstable world and gesture towards the need for alternative forms of wayfinding through the cultural and ecological crises we're currently facing. I’m excited to see how they are curated in relation to the range of brilliant works by other CAMP artists that have all been especially selected for this exhibition.
Sapphire Blue Collective exhibit at Birdwood House in Totnes.
Desire Lines are the tracks created by walkers repeatedly deviating from prescribed paths to forge more direct routes to their chosen destinations. The term highlights the importance of individual agency and the power of coming together to achieve a common goal, both of which serve as a metaphor for Sapphire Blue Collective
More Headroom from SBC at Leadworks, Plymouth
Building on Headroom, our summer show at the G12 Contemporary Art Space at Krowji, More Headroom will showcase more work from:- Poppy Goldsmith, Hannah Holford, Leah Jordan, Christina (Tina) Kutter, Polly Plouviez, Tim Ridley, Alice Simpson and Kate Williams.
Working across a variety of mediums and disciplines, including weaving, painting, assemblage, photography, fine print and sculpture, and driven in large part by a shared belief in the transformative potential of contemporary art, our work and our commitment to each other is guided by a Manifesto that emphasises kindness, kinship and resilience, and underscores the group’s dedication to the DIY ethos.
Up for Air
This autumn, Terre Verte is opening its doors to two artists collectives - 'Room to Manoeuvre' and 'A Sometimes Project' to explore and present work on the themes of Air and Water. These are the elements from which life has emerged on Earth, two substances which flow inside and outside our bodies, whose health and balance we need to be most mindful of for our future, and two elements whose colour, voice and energy stirs our spirits and emotions. We are going on a journey.....please join us: it looks like it is going to be exciting !
'Up For Air' by Room to Manoeuvre is a residency/evolving exhibition from the collective - Tina Kutter, Shelley Hodgson and Claire Gladstone - and selected guests, friends and collaborators who will use a variety of media to investigate AIR, the stuff we breathe, the cloak of atmosphere around the whole of our living planet. This will be a 'live' show, so expect to see work-in-progress, artists sparking off each other and don't be surprised if you find yourself sliding from observer to participant.
Headroom from Sapphire Blue Collective
In a world where everything seems to have been exploited and commodified, Headroom references a safe space in which art allows us to travel inside minds but beyond the confines of analytical reasoning, to engage with feelings and intuitions, and get a sense of how things might be done differently. The SBC invites art enthusiasts, cultural explorers and the curious to join us on this voyage.
Proud to have my work in the Plymouth Art Vending Machine
A one-of-a-kind vending machine was installed in Drake Circus, Plymouth’s biggest shopping centre – stocking poems, plays and pin badges made by local artists. Shoppers were able to buy the single-page poems and plays for just £1, with all proceeds going back to the artists who created them. The poems and plays were carefully packaged in boxes inside the vending machine, with each box containing one of four enamel pin badges inspired by Plymouth landmarks.
By the end of the project … 82 writers had submitted over 350 unique pieces of writing and 850 boxes were sold!
EXHIBITION - Radiance, Rubrics and Rituals: So we are held
The Sapphire Blue Collective will be exhibiting at Maketank, Exeter 17 to 29 July 2023 (open daily 10am to 4pm, closed Wednesdays, open until 6pm on Thursdays, special viewing and meet the artists on Friday 21 July from 5pm to 8pm).
The collective’s highly anticipated second show will feature the work of ten practitioners working across a range of disciplines including; ceramics, weaving, photography, painting, drawing, object making, assemblage and fine print.
The show’s title references not only the various strategies and methodologies employed by the artists but it also draws inspiration from the Collective’s manifesto which emphasises kindness, kinship and resilience.
CAMP Co-Director
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ONE MINUTE!
My video short ‘Distance Travelled’ will feature in the One Minute! Film Festival as part of the CAMP on Tour initiative, hosted by MAKETANK at Positive Light Projects, 184-187 Sidwell Street, Exeter EX4 6RD
Saturday 24th September 2022 from 3pm to 7pm
This work will also be shown at How Long, an exhibition of wall based, audio work and events by members of CAMP timed to coincide with BAS9. Preview Friday 4 November 2022, 5pm-7pm and continues 5 – 12 November 2022, 12noon-6pm. FREE ENTRY, OPEN TO ALL at Vacancy Atlas, 107 Cornwall Street, Plymouth
KINsequences: A Sculpture That Wants to Get Made
Broadcast on Soundart Digital Community Radio and RADIA the European independent radio network
KINsequences: A Sculpture That Wants to Get Made is a co-created illustrated text by Molly Allam, Sovay Berriman, Alan Braidford, Tara C., Rachael Coward, Joanne Dorothea-Smith, Claire Gladstone, Clementine Neild, Frances Staniforth and myself, Tina Kutter. The work was built by each participant writing in response to the person that preceded them. It is both in the Surrealist tradition and a version of the parlour game known as ‘consequences’. Each writer sees only the previous participant’s contribution, with the whole being revealed at the end of the exercise. The text contains enough common threads to form a narrative arc but travels in unanticipated directions and represents a chorus of voices, both visually and through language.
There are three acts; Act I: A Sculpture That Wants To Get Made, Act II: The Making, and Act III: The Viewing.
Writers’ KIN meet regularly through CAMP, a member led support and professional development network for artists, curators, producers and arts writers living in Devon and Cornwall.
The group reading of KINsequences was produced by Shelley Hodgson at Soundart Radio.
Since 2005, the Radia network is an international informal network of community radio stations that promote art radio and contribute to intercultural exchange and artworks' and artists' circulation.
Online Artist in Residence
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Check out the website above to support Cornwall based artists’ declaration of climate & ecological emergency, inspired by Art & Culture Declares …. https://www.culturedeclares.org
Back from the printer ...
Unearthed: extracts from a walking journal … my first book is a response to gifts from the rural landscapes of North Cornwall. A collection of images and observations made during the summer of 2019.
Circular Walk
This recent sculptural piece is off to join the permanent collection at Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun, Cornwall.
International Print Exchange
My drypoint print series entitled Heliozoan was just accepted for the 11th International Print Exchange.
Endelienta Open
My screen print Lines into Light was awarded ‘runner up’ in the Endelienta Open 2019.
Altered Territory ... in collaboration with fine artist Teresa Stabb
In the tradition of psycho-geographic enquiry, we undertook a series of journeys along the Camel Trail, a local landmark, cycle path and recreational route created from a disused railway line that once conveyed minerals, clay, slate, sand, gravel and passengers between the moorland and the sea. The land is rich with history, industrial heritage, flora and fauna, and it also remains a vibrant community where people live, work and play. We gathered information and materials as we went along, allowing this site-specific engagement to inform new work.
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'Held' 2019
The work, a series of small scale sculptural forms fashioned from drawings and objects found while walking the moorland near my home / studio, juxtaposes the fragility of paper with the strength of metal, and speaks to my growing inclination to want to hold things in stasis, at a moment of balance.
Exhibited at Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun, Cornwall as part of the show Rediscovering Fowey Moor.