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Visiting Artists 5105FA                                          Wednesday 2nd October

Tutors

Dr. Mark Wright - Embodiment in Art & Design, Motion Through Digital Means

Mark is an Art & Design Faculty member at my university, Liverpool John Moores. He mainly uses different technology to create his art pieces, this is to show the viewer the cultural significance of technology. His idea is about the development of things such as painting, improving the media so we are able to use it outside the studio like we artists can today. He believes technology has helped many different practices evolve, the digital has revolutionised many different practices. Also how technology creates new forms of embodiment and embedded interaction with the world and each other. Until mark spoke about this to us I did not quite understand his are, I think this is a very clever way of seeing the development of the things we do.

The first piece we were shown was a video of a neon outline of a dancer, who would only appear with the movement they were making so it just captured the movement. Mark said this piece was about embodiment and new ways of thinking, I like how this piece shows captures the feeling of the dance with just being able to see the movement you focus on that not the bits that aren't important, this piece is a very holistic piece.

Mark also showed us technology art such as a piece that makes you believe you are touching an ancient artifact through glass yet this is just an elusion. another piece he created was of the one of the oldest houses in Europe where they took hundreds of photos and created a video for an immersive visit, moving through the house using photos. This piece shows us exactly how mark wants to show us the cultural significance of technology. Without technology he wouldn't have been able to create this piece and we wouldn't have been able to see through the house that quickly. Mark showed us many pieces during this lecture to prove his point that technology had helped many different practices develop and connects people and embodiment using digital means.

 Rory Macbeth

Rory is Faculty of Arts Professional and social studies at Liverpool John Moores, school of Art & Design. He started his art career while he was a street painter for quite a few years, this was before he went and did an art degree. Once he had received his degree he did everything he could other than painting. The first piece he spoke about was how he had walked around an art gallery as a fake tour guide, making up stories for all the painting and artwork they came across. He started by quickly flicking through different artworks he has created such as a video of a waving hand but the hand isn't actually waving, the camera is. A project called mosquito where at certain shops there is a device lets out a high pitched noise that only young people can hear, this is to get rid of young people who are hanging outside the shops, but as this device does not know who is the ones causing the nuisance this can cause young infants and babies to cry and get upset so Rory decided to create a piece where he hired a brass band to play the recording outside that building constant for several days. Another piece, all the Os, was a piece where he created a book of all the O sounds. 

One of my favourite pieces Rory showed us was a piece where he hung all the art in an exhibition according to wages or pay packet. The artwork of the staff member all clumped together on one wall where the fancy landscapes where very small pieces on a large wall. I personally like this piece as it shows how money is with a lot of situations. In places people have money the houses are spread out but in the places they don’t there is no spaces and things are pilled on top of each other. 

I personally love how some of Rorys pieces either make you think about the world, the artwork itself or yourself. All the pieces to me are very clever. Simple yet very effective. Rory doesn’t like to stick to the rules he creates pieces that not everyone would be okay with, but he likes to challenge things within art and design. As well as making pieces Rory will also use found objects such as his self hanging sculptures, tape hanging from a wall, paintbrush dried to the wall, saw cutting a wall, these are the simple yet effective pieces I was talking about. With Rory the piece he creates is more about the way its thought about and his idea behind the peice and I find that with my own practice. What I love most about Rorys work is that he finds art in everything in life, with the objects he uses, the ideas. This is shown with his piece where he turned a funeral car into a taxi so when people hale the cab they are haling death. quite a lot of his work is about the world and other people but rarely about himself.

“Rory Macbeth's practice probes the gap between ideals and their realisation, between what is presented to us and what we actually get”

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Visiting Artists  5105FA                                   Wednesday 9th October

Ines Doujak and John Baker

Ines Doujak

Doujak is a widely exhibited feminist artist who lives and worked in Vienna. She has collaborated with John Barker on many projects and ideas such as in the Liverpool Biennial and mainly focuses on a queer-feminist and anti-racial view in her practice. Her practice is very multi disciplinary with her using sculpture, performance, photography and filming. I personally like the meanings she is trying to get across within her work, calling on the main issues a lot of people face. The thing I dislike about her work is that it only consists of the bad parts within the world and none of the good. Although she is trying to make a difference with her art bringing in themes of class, gender, politics and all the issues in society we face I personally think she could achieve this in a less depressing way. Although you could argue that, by her doing this it makes more of an impacts on its viewers doing exactly what she wanted trying to get to the audiences emotions and make them see it for how it truly is.

John Baker

Baker is an artist in the writing and performing sense. He has written many essays which have been published in many different magazines and newspapers and things with important value. He has written some novels called Futures and radio signals. Doujak and Baker have been working together since 2010 and created many works together with have the same linking ideas about society, cultural changes and politics. I personally like there piece Class Hatred, Only joking. Within this piece Doujak and Baker are acting as comedians, coming out with the most offensive jokes on class, race, gender and trying to insult in the worst way possible. I personally think the way in which they create the work is very harsh but this also gives the affect they want as it hits people with what they don’t expect and they show people how its wrong by trying to perform it like its right, which then makes the audience see how truly bad it is.

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Visiting Artists 5105FA                                       Wednesday 16th October

Dan Howard-Birt

Howard-Birt is a curator of exhibitions. The first thing he spoke about was how all of the shows he's been responsible for have somehow merged into the same exhibition without him meaning too. His exhibitions are not always definite, they are always remade and rethought and he allows things to just happen instead of calling it a mistake. A thing I found interesting when talking about his work he didn’t know where he was going with it, called himself a painter, and read a section of the book ‘dance to the music of time’ he said he personally liked this book as we all dance in and out of each others lives all of the time. He felt as though this book had the same feel to it as the exhibitions he created. I personally found the way Howard-Brit spoke about things very confusing as he did not explain properly why his exhibitions are all the same. While creating his exhibitions he would rather the shows be more like a jumble sale or a car wreck and not a perfectly laid out shop or usually gallery. He then spoke about how when he's writing press releases it seems nonsense to him and isn't for him as he can’t put words to a room.

Howard-Brit is a very complicated curator, “I don’t believe in ideas, or see there merit” He had a certain interest in mess, leftovers from a dinner party or stains. I personally am also interested in mess and being untidy this personally gave me the idea to do a project on mess and how this shows life, the life we are living. Howard-Brit was a very difficult lecturer to understand he though about things very differently saying “touch is an event- you can’t undo it” and “coloured mud infected the white paper” He has 3 different names for his exhibitions as he could not decide which worked best, I personally understand this as there could be many different titles that fit what he is trying to say. Dan Howard-Brit is unusual in the sense that the way he delivered his lecture was unconventional, he chose to tell us certain things without explaining them wanting us to figure it out. As he was a curator and not an artist he just showed us pieces of work in which he has created the exhibitions so in this lecture I do not feel as though I learn’t a great deal about him as a curator we learn’t more about the other artist he has exhibited. 

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Visiting Artists 5105FA                                    Wednesday 30th October

Matthew Merrick 

Merricks practice is an unusual one as he does not create within a traditional studio, his studio is the train. He told us this is as he finds a studio to be stressful and difficult as there is nothing to stimulate his brain, which I personally relate to a lot as I walk around a lot to find my inspiration. Being on the train works better for him as he people watches, looks out the window and he really enjoys this time to be able to think and come up with ideas. The train is a place I myself love coming up with ideas while traveling I find it very peaceful sitting on the train watching places go by. Merrick describes himself as having a very busy mind just creating, making “stupid” performances he never documented. He described himself in a way that we could relate to as artists saying the art world is competitive and we all struggle. “competitive but unable to keep up”. I like the way he delivered the lecture as he didn’t go through his artwork one by one in a slide like we would usually see, he has a constant display of works going on and off the screen. another thing he spoke about which I related too as an artist is he used to worry too much about if his work was about something rather than just creating, I have recently figured out I have this same problem so have just started creating many many different style works as I am indecisive about which I prefer. 

Matthew Merrick is also a writer who wanted to record them being spoken. He tried recording himself reading these writings but said he did not like the way it sounded and upon finding his friend Harry paid him to read his audio book as he had heard I'm in other things and thought his voice fit perfectly. This audio piece was called Bdum Sdum. I personally loved the simplicity of his work and how I relate to is myself so much as an artist and see the same weirdness in him as myself in my art. He also described himself as having a weird sense of humour that many people might not understand. While on one of these journeys on the train there was a women who was filling her nails and it was annoying him, this is what inspired his piece ‘nail file’ 2019. This was just the sound of a nail file recorded but he said it took them hours and hours to find the right sound, I love the simple everyday that he puts into his work. Merrick has a very interesting mind, describing e-cigerettes as “human perfume diffuser” this is the kind of weird sense of humour Merrick was describing. The lecture was very interesting and personally related to my practice in many ways.

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Visiting Artists  5105FA                                    Wednesday 13th November

Joana De Olivera Guerreiro 

Joana is an artist born in Lisbon, Portugal. She unusually studied a Post graduation in Military Strategy and a BA Political Science and International Relations before going on to do a foundation diploma in art and design. She informed us that the reason for her late start was that her family did not approve of her love of art and design and thought she would be poor her whole life if she followed her dream, art was more of a hobby. 

She studied humanities and was the first in her family to go to university. The first piece of artwork she showed us had the subject about the stresses of university. I personally liked how she showed us work that we would relate to and thought about her lecture before delivering it. 

Joana did her masters in military strategy's and went on to plan 21 military operations in Naple. She was also a gender advisor, helping women and children most effected by military missions. This is where she would design strategies around the war events to help the women and children stay safe who lived around this chaos. 

Joana told us of how she has always wanted to be an artist, even when she wasn’t allowed she would always fine a way to express herself and create. She would buy disposable cameras and take photos of everything, sometimes achieving good images sometimes bad, this chance factor made this exciting for her. She also to make herself better would upload these images to a website called flicker, where she would get advice from real photographers. Her work would capture what most people don't notice in the world. One of these photographs is on display at the London Tate. She wanted to produce a cinematic environment in photos, capturing the bad, when most people capture the smiles, and happy times. I personally relate to most of Joanas work and how she notices the imperfections within the perfect 

Once she ran away from home to London and studied music and read lots of books she started to make art in many other ways, describing it as ‘where the fun begins’ Seeing her paintings you can see her home town of Lisbon has been a big influence within her work, this is because of all the bright and colourful subjects within her painting reflects the bright colours of her home town. 

She decided to move to Liverpool for the art scene, as her home town is many years behind in the art world and as she would be more valued herd as art is more valued here. When she first arrived painting is what she admired most so would paint constantly, being in her studio for more than 10 hours a day, this was for her own validation not anyone elses, she loves to create so would not let anything get in the way of her painting. Even money, she went to scrap yards and collected old paint, her materials a lot of the time sourced from bins/tips. 

“as long as it makes a mark you can always express yourself with it”

With many of her pieces you can see she has gone over it many times, changing her mind and experimenting a lot with different colours. When explaining her process of creating a painting you can tell all of her work tells a story of something she has either seen or experienced. Her lecture helped me as an artist realise I focus to much on the little details and if people will understand it, but if I understand it that's all that matters, its a way of expressing myself, just like Joana said, this is for her own validation not anyone else’s. 

Another way Joana expresses herself is through poetry, she told us how she finds it easier to write as she has written since childhood, mainly narrative painting, with her poetry being strange interpretation of her paintings. Her poem which was displayed in July 2019, The Trackie Trousered Philanthropist, Make North Docks, Liverpool, UK. 

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This piece is my personal favourite of Joanas, the reason for this is because she has actually looked around Liverpool and seen a important issue the most of us seem to ignore, the homeless. This is an issue I have noticed myself and see many similarities within her work to mine such as the way she expresses herself through her artwork and its either about her or things she has seen or an issue that is getting to her. Another similarity is the way there is always a story behind her paintings even if she's the only one that knows it. Joana is a very passionate artist and I believe what has made her most passionate is she has always been free to create whatever she wants and hasn't had the art education tell her what is right and wrong so she has stayed very child like in the way she creates. 

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Visiting Artists 4106FA

Blogs - 4106FA – Criticality 2- Sem 2 

25thMar- Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois is French-born American artist with her art career from the 1930s until 2010, she is one of the great figures of modern and contemporary art. Her practice includes large scale sculptures and installations which are influenced by her memories and experiences. Louise’s work is very complex, and she uses abstract art with many circles and uses the repetitiveness of her work in a very therapeutic way, trying to gain stability and order and to stop her violent or sad emotions. I myself use art as a very therapeutic method, I use painting and how the colours and brush stroke make me feeling when in different moods to create my art and Louise is someone I admire very much and upon learning about her she is kind of an inspiration of mine and someone I would love to be in my future. With my body of work, I create art using life whether that be my feelings or things I notice while outside, Louise create work and says ‘art is about life’ there is no “historical bullshit” when it comes to Louise. I personally love how even at the age of 95, she is still teaching and helping artists she questions the what, the why and helps artist learn about their own work which I have recently learnt to do as I was fortunate enough to be tough by Rory Macbeth who teaches is students the same way as Louise. Louise regularly holds salons for many different kinds of people, discussing art, questioning the artist who join which I myself would love to do one day. Louise believes it is a privilege to be an artist and that is something I highly believe myself.

1stApr- Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who work in sculpture, installation, painting, performance and various other art forms. She is often called ‘The princess of polka dots’ because all over her work has one thing in all, polka dots. As an artist Yayoi has a very unique story, when she was a little girl, she hallucinated that flowers in a field started talking to her, which looked like dots and the field was endless and now every piece of work she creates contains these dots. Her belief is that by putting these dots everywhere she is making them and herself melt into ‘the bigger universe’. I personally love all of the work she creates, it might only mean something to her but it shows how strong minded she is that she can use a traumatic event to create amazing works of art even though her parents never wanted her to be an artist. She expresses how she is feeling through her work being herself.

8thApr- Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry is an English contemporary artist, broadcaster and writer. Grayson’ practice contains many mediums, but he is mostly known for his ceramics. He creates work to tell a story of his alter ego and his work is psychological and often about himself. His work is with conventional methods with ceramics but many of his other work is very unconventional the techniques he uses such as photographic transfers. The similarities in our work is that we both have a psychological influence.

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Blogs - 4106FA – Criticality 2- Sem 2

5thFeb- Gabrielle de la Puente/ OUTPUT Gallery

Gabrielle De La Puente is a critic and curator and manager within Liverpool. She is a critic and co-director of The White Pube, and curator and manager of the OUTPUT Gallery. Although she does not create art, she likes talking about it, delivering it and she supports it as it is a very big part of her life. In her words she ‘wants to help create a healthier art world (one that is less boring, less violent and wholly less monied). Gabrielle co-directs the white Pube with Zarina Muhammad who she met while both on the same course studying fine art at London’s Central Saint Martins, the white pube was formed in order to ridicule the well established ‘The White Cube’ based in London where they both attended university.

12thFeb- Alex Frost

Alex Frost is an artist whose practice is mainly sculpture, his unusual approach to creating a body of work using normal everyday items in a very interesting and different way by using illusionism along with literalism showing the audience how similar the two can be. Alex uses his practice as meditation when drawing, folding and creating which gives him a certain understanding. Although I am unable to link or see similarity’s within our work, Alex has given me a new way to look at things, while I use my practice for a kind of meditation, when seeing the detail within his work this has given me ideas to start creating using 3D and maybe make my paintings of my buildings miniature 3 dimensional versions.

17thMar- Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic originally from Serbia born 1946. Marina’s practice is known mainly for her performances but also brings many other mediums into her body of work, such as; video, sound, sculpture and photography. Her performances often need audience participation. In Amsterdam Marina became part of a group of avant-garde artists with work experimenting with the body as medium, this was the start of Marina developing her practice using the body. I personally find Marina’s work very interesting in the way it makes you think more deeply and can mean different things to different people. Marina’s work has a dark feel with her choosing subjects to purposely make the audience uncomfortable, such as her piece ‘The Artist is Present’ 2010, where she invited the audience to question their own emotions and has them sit opposite to the artist while she stayed silent. This work shows how Marina is very interested in people and not scared to make her audience uncomfortable in order for them think, I love how her work shows how everyone can be different as many people would be feeling very different emotions during that performance.

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Wednesday Lectures

22ndJan- Jacqui Hallam

Jacqui is an artist based in Totnes, Devon who was originally from Wembley London. Winner of John Moores Painting Prize 2018 with her works being displayed all across the uk and at the Walker Art Gallery. I was very fortunate to see Jacqui’s unique winning piece ‘King and Queen of Wands’ while on display with other amazing works at Painting Prize exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery. For the piece Hallum used a special approach by using three cotton sheets which she then stained using ink and coloured dye. Before knowing the Hallum as an artist, just from seeing her piece displayed I thought about the word ‘wand’ being used within the title and personally believed this was in reference to the hand movements she would have made when painting with the ink and as you can visibly see she has flicked or dripped some of the ink. Hallum is very interested in decay and history as you can see within her artwork. While learning more about Hallum’s work, this is one similarity I could see within my own work. I am very interested in decaying old buildings and the history behind them whether that be the real history or the history that I myself imagine. Although Hallum’s techniques and style differs from mine, while researching I see similarities within some of our influences such as decay. One influence I found while researching the differs from mine is her interest in organic growth, a lot of my work is influenced by the environment but in a different way to Hallum as I have never thought about the growth of the environment but more the history. Hallum even recently trained to become a gardener. She describes her approach to painting, Hallum said: “I have a studio in the front of my flat and a garden at the back; these are both places where my paintings are made, often going back and forth between the two, or spending a night, or a week, out of doors. I like to see them differently, but I also like to watch what happens as they take on a rainstorm or the piecing sun. If they survive then they have what it takes.”

29thJan- Bedwyr Williams and Jai Chuhan

Bedwyr Williams is a Welsh artist whose works combines stand-up comedy, installations and poetic live performances. Williams is highly influenced by quirky banalities within his life, always putting a comedy twist in his work while merging life with art. His practice mainly consists of sculptures and performances, with his piece ‘walk a mile in my shoes’ which is 45 pairs of his own used shoes which he then had the audience try on and goof around with, encouraging the audience to have fun with each other. The piece was about diversity, community and inclusion and what I like most about this piece is he showed how we are all very different in a unique interesting way that engaged people.

Jai Chuhan is an Indian-born British artist. She currently works at Liverpool John Moores within the Fine Art department, with myself being very fortunate enough to have her as my personal tutor this year. Jai’s practice are mainly paintings, which most always contain an isolated figure which is confined within the painting in a ‘room-like space’, her practice is very expressive while she explores themes of love with psychological tensions. The similarities within our work is the way Jai uses feelings within her work and paints in an expressive way with many layers. Upon speaking to Jai in a tutorial I found she also struggles to see her paintings as finished and adds many layers over the work creating new ones, this is something I find myself doing a lot depending on my mood, art looks different and you see something new every time you look at again with a fresh mind, our creative ideas never stay the same.

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Blogs - 4106FA – Criticality 2- Sem 2 

13thMar-Maeve Brennan

Maeve Brennan is one the winners of the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2018: Unintended Consequences for her moving-image work called Listening in the Dark. Her practice focuses on moving image and installation works while being influenced by political and historical materials. Before her work can begin Brennan researches and investigates a great amount for a long time before making. Her research includes proximity and intimacy with people and places this gives her work a very documentary feel to it. The piece Listening to the dark focuses on nature and the environment and how humans are blind to the effect we have on the world. I personally love how all of Maeve Brennan’s work is about real world issues and she is trying to make a change with what she creates and thinks in a unique way to most people.

25thMar- Mike Pratt

Mike Pratt’s work consists of sculptures and paintings which are usually big in size. He creates these using materials such as; wax, resin, fabric, oil paint, stone, and metals, he has. Mike himself has compared his own pieces to sandwiches. When viewing the work, I can see that makes sense as there are many layers to his work with the materials sandwiched together to create a 3D style painting that also seems like a sculpture. Other works by Pratt I personally like his screen prints, the work was based upon documentation of a rug made by Dada artist Hans Arp which he created in collaboration with his father. Pratt painted over this work to create his own. One thing I like about Mike Pratts practice is that is influenced by others work greatly and recreated other artists pieces. This links into the theory I am very interested in and want to research, everything has been done before and we are all recreating things trying to come up with new things.

3rdApr- James Gardner

James Gardner is from Scotland and is the owner and gallerist of FRUTTA Gallery in Rome/Glasgow. He founded FRUTTA in Rome in 2012 and has recently opened another in Glasgow. Rome and Glasgow are two very different places, one being in Italy’s capital the other in his hometown of Scotland. When asked why he chose Rome James said, “I’ve never got beyond the naive answer that I like the city, and ‘why not?’ I was 24, and at that age spontaneity takes over any form of reasoning—well, it did for me, anyway.” And when asked why Glasgow he said “It’s my hometown and it is, in part, due to growing up there I am interested in art.” I personally like how both his Galleries are in places meaningful to him rather than the best location for money. James also says,“It’s also interesting in terms of geography,” Gardner said. “Both Roma and Glasgow are somewhat on the geographical edge of Europe—that is, they parenthesize Central Europe and in that sense their independence makes [it] interesting. Yet they are linked via the openness to exchange ideas and their welcoming ethos. Both are cities have a constant influx of artists. Yet, the frames in which they provide to view art works and for artists themselves to produce work is very different.”

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Visiting Artists 4106FA

Blogs - 4106FA – Criticality 2- Sem 2  6th Feb- Jasmir Creed  Jasmir Creed has been a professional artist since 2015. Her practice is one I find very similar to my own, creating pieces with texture, expressiveness and mark-making. Within my own work I find myself using expressiveness to create most of my pieces while using my interest in architecture and buildings such as Jasmir uses cityscapes to influence her work creating paintings of London, her hometown of Manchester or Liverpool. I myself find I use the places I have lived along with my hometown to inspire me. She uses psycho-geographic city journeys looking at the architecture and people in the environment. This is another similarity I see within my own work as since moving to Liverpool find myself walking around the city taking many photographs that greatly inspire me. Jasmir Creed is the first artist out of all of the lecture who I relate mostly in my work and who’s work I enjoy the most. The many similarities within our work is with the materials she uses, her influences and the way she finds them and her subject matter. 13th Feb- Tom Railton Tom Railton is an artist, lecturer, tutor, consultant and instructor in sculpture. Born in Coventry, England he now works in London, his work mainly consists of sculptures and he has a multidisciplinary practice. Railton describes his own work within this quote “Using a conceptual approach to sculptural materials and methods, I examine the processes behind making, replication and exhibition. I combine a joy for experimentation and open-ended enquiry with the possibilities of engagement with information. My work is enlivened by activity and exists as a result of an audience’s interaction. At its core is a dissemination and interpretation of knowledge made manifest. Acknowledging processes without overt display, a space is left for an audience’s own puzzlement and belief to fill the gaps.” Railton tells us how even though his work is researched based his concept or subject matter within his work is revealed later on and he will start a project without knowing where he is going and will let the piece explain itself as he goes through making. He also has quite a comedic style to his work by naming them unusual names such as one piece he named in Chinese which he could not understand. One piece by Tom Railton I like is “Simply Black” as for me it looks perfect but at the same time unperfect. The piece represented the new I phone 7 and fits perfectly as many of us today smash our phone screens. 20th Feb- Louise Giovanelli Louise’s practice is mainly influenced by ways of looking and perceiving. I personally like the way she views art in a very different way. Her work is not autobiographical or about herself, her work is more about making people or the viewer notice the different texture and want to touch the piece when they cannot. Her work is more about sensorial possibilities mainly visual. I like how for Louise her work is not about subject matter or visually representing something from an object of image but from feelings and making the audience feel something from the piece as well. She likes the audience to see inside the painting as well as outside. Shown in her piece “Two Grooves II,2019” within this piece you can see shapes in blue inside the piece and on the surface are white lines as if they are outside of the piece. 27th Feb- Dana Munro Dana Munro works in Brussels and London with her work being displayed and exhibited internationally. Her practice is mostly videography. In one of her pieces you can see she likes her videos to be living pictures rather than full moving videos. You can see this as the subject matter within the work consist of a camera and birds, the camera is still while the birds fly around and the video moves and uses angles as if the viewer is in the room using their own eyes. I personally like how she uses video in a different and unique way to most others.