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Monday, 20 July 2015

Dove Arts: An Amazing Space

I'm delighted to have won SAW Creative Pathways Bursary for An Amazing Space: A Celebration of the Dove

I've visited Dove Arts near Glastonbury a few times and very exciting to be part of this project. We're working on a book and exhibition that celebrates the space and its history. Over the weekend the ABCD book group were making their outdoor book.

Wednesday, 10 June 2015

Flatland

My Flatland photo series is currently showing at the O3 Gallery in Oxford, as part of the Trigonometry exhibition. The show runs until 28th June, so do pop in and have a look if you're in Oxford.

My Flatland series is influenced by Edwin Abbott Abbott’s 1884 satirical novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. The book is narrated by “A Square” and uses the fictional 2-D world of Flatland to explore Victorian hierarchy, and spatial dimensions. Other worlds within this fictional universe include Pointland and Spaceland – 1D and 3D worlds, as well as dimensions beyond this. The inhabitants of Flatland don’t believe in other dimensions and anyone who asserts the existence of other dimensions are punished. I’m interested in perception. The inhabitants of Flatland only believe in the space that they perceive, and refuse to believe in a space beyond their experience; this is what I wanted to explore in this photo-series.

Walking is central to my practice. When I walk I imagine worlds beyond our own – I’m particularly interested in the notion of parallel dimensions, worlds that overlap with our own and sometimes bleed into our own. Thresholds and portals fascinate me. I digitally manipulate photographs taken on walks, pushing elements of the image beyond what the eye perceives. Nothing is added or taken away, the altered colours are generated from the values within the digital image.

Thursday, 28 May 2015

Exhibition

Some of my Flatland series will form part of O3 Gallery's next exhibition: Trigonometry. June 6th-28th. Preview 5th June 6-8pm.
http://www.o3gallery.co.uk/exhibitions/o3_trigonometry.html

Flatland - Jennifer Newbury

flyer designed by me via Mount: http://www.mount-art.co.uk/graphic-design/

Friday, 23 January 2015

Porthleven exhibitions/ outcomes

O3 Gallery exhibition

My work (6 framed short stories with manipulated photographs)

Short story booklet by me

Collaborative project (psychogeographic walk project) Emily, Sae and I

Close up of Long Peter - collaboration between Emily and me

Bath Spa exhibition private view

Close up of Legend collaborative psychogeographic project - french knitting by Sae Murai, Legend (text) by me. A visual and textual representation of a walk near Porthleven.

Legend 23 points along a walk textually documented

My work

Long Peter was sold, the buyers wanted a legible transcript of the writing etched on the buoy (transcript from interview with local resident) I designed this for the buyers.