Festival of Naked Forms
Festival of Naked forms
Volume 10
A Performance Festival
At Kafárna - centre for arts and ecology, UMPRUM, Prague
31st August 2024 to 2nd September 2024
The Festival of Naked Forms is in it’s Tenth year and the project is lead by Czech artist and performer Lenka Klodova, the theme of the Prague based iteration of the festival this year was a celebration of nudity. I decided to remake an older work for the festival, from the body of work that I made twenty years ago relating to hair. The Blond Veil/Wig has been resurrected and seen in a grove of Yew trees in Prague.
On The Edge 2.0
On The Edge 2.0
Curated by Denise Bryan and Tere Chad
An Exhibition of work by members of the Royal Society of Sculptors
At OVADA, 14a Osney Lane, Oxford, OX1 1NJ
17th July 2024 to 28th July 2024
On The Edge 1.0 was shown at The Espacio Gallery (London 2023). The exhibition showcased work by members of the Royal Society of Sculptors who had initially got to know one another on Zoom meetings during the pandemic. The idea for the exhibition arose from discussions about how artists could respond during a time when the world was On The Edge, of war and climate change.
The title of the exhibition at OVADA, co curated by Denise Bryan and Tere Chad, takes a quote from the Ukrainian poet Boris Khersonsky: ‘Every hut in our beloved country is on the edge. And to be honest, I’m on the edge too. I feel sorry for the ones at the centre, but really I’m especially sorry for the ones in the camp towers, watching the frosty distance…’
Two of the exhibiting artists, Borys Krylov and Oles Sydoruk are from Ukraine and are continuing their practice as best as they can in Kiev. Stephen Duncan, an artist and poet from South London, also showing work in the exhibition has recently been to visit Borys and Oles in Kiev and experienced life there first hand. When Stephen returned from his trip he told our group just how important sculpture and art are to the people there. It made us think about how artists involved in an exhibition like this can contribute a positive voice in our turbulent times.
The resulting work explores our relationship as humans to our environment and other humans. Some works directly tackle the politics of conflict, how the world has been possessed and mapped. Other works highlight the effects that modern living has had on our environment. The exhibition contains works that are humorous, playful, comments, on human relationships. Many of the artists included choose to make joyous works that celebrate nature and the fragile balance that we create on this Our Earth.
Are You There - 10 years of Neon Kunst
Are You There - 10 years of Neon Kunst
A large group exhibition
Part of “48 Stunden Neukolln” Berlin
27th to 30th June 2024
I will be showing digital versions of recent work, combinations of drawings and 3D work
ACAVA Open Studios
ACAVA Open Studios
See recent drawing and sculpture by Denise Bryan
ACAVA Studio 6, 54 Blechynden Street, London, W10 6RJ
30th June 2024
See my work but I will not be there
Apu - In the High Places
Apu - In the High Places
An Exhibition by Denise Bryan
At Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot, Oxfordshire
9th September 2023 to 30th September 2023
In this installation of new sculpture works, Apu – In the High Places, the artist aims to share with visitors to the gallery the breathless, weightless sense of travelling through a high mountain landscape. Returning to her studio after an extended research trip through South America Bryan felt that she could not shake the sensations of the High Andes from her mind. It was as if she had inhaled an Apu (a spirit of the mountains). Through various material experimentations she found that creating forms by moulding hardened muslin and drawing these forms together, with the help of a 3D Pen, she could evoke the landscapes imprinted on her mind. The work at the Cornerstone will be the most ambitious iteration of these works, created specifically for the Gallery. The exhibition will also feature a series of charcoal drawings.
During the installation of the work, the public are invited to come along and see the artist working on the piece with the 3D Pen, drawing topographies in space. The best days to see this will be 6th 7th 8th September (between 11.00am and 4.00pm)
The exhibition will be open during Cornerstone Opening Hours from 9th September until 30th September. For opening times and directions please visit.
Cornerstone Arts Centre
https://www.cornerstone-arts.org/
The Gallery is a few minutes walk from Didcot Parkway Station (on the main line between London Paddington and Oxford
OLD TROUTS
old trouts
I will be performing Aya Huma at The Silk Mill Frome, as part of the Frome Festival
Thursday 13th July 2023
7.30 - 9.30
Silk Mill, Merchants Barton, Saxonvale, Frome, BA11 1PT
Open Studios
Open studios flyer
Visit my studio Number 6, ACAVA, 54 Blechynden Street, London, W10 6RJ
Saturday 24th June - 12.00 - 6.00
I am preparing for a solo show in September so expect work in progress and drawings
On The Edge
On The Edge, exhibition of Sculpture
An Exhibition by members of the Royal Society of Sculptors:
‘ON THE EDGE’
A key exhibition by members of the Royal Society of Sculptors, at Espacio Gallery 14 – 19
March 2023 (159 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 7DG).
The Private View will take place on Thursday 16 March 2023 18:00 – 21:00.
The exhibition explores the relevance of sculptural practices, at a time when the world is
On the Edge of uncertainty.
Summer Show 2022
Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show
4 Cromwell Place, SW7 2JE
I will be showing “Above Huarez
Open Studios 2022
Blechynden Street Open Studios 2022
I will be taking part in
Blechynden Street Open Studios
Sunday 3rd July - 1pm to 4pm
ACAVA Studios, 54 Blechynden Street, London W10 6RJ
Kora
Kora, a series of performances - summer 2022
Over the summer of 2022 I will be making a new performance work Kora in a number of locations.
Many Tibetans, even old and frail ones make pilgrimages on their hands and knees, measuring the ground with their bodies. They stretch out their whole body, prostrate on the ground, mark the place where their hands come to rest. They then stand up, walk forwards to this point and start the action over again. This is called Kora. This is an act of endurance and faith that I would not feel able to undertake at a pilgrimage site in the Himalayas, but I hope to make a “Kora” here in the UK, in preparation for a planned, walked pilgrimage at Mount Kailash in the future. I propose to make this action in various sites, at home, at work and in places of pilgrimage and interest around the country.
My first Kora was performed as part of Fringe Arts Bath in a programme curated by Clare Carswell and Peta Lloyd championing work by older women
10 Gram Challenge
I have 2 small sculptures exhibited at The Royal Society of Sculptors as part of the 10 Gram Challenge.
Milwyn, a specialist Bronze Foundary, created a challenge for members of the Royal Society of Sculptors last year during lockdown. Members were sent a pack containing 10 Grams of Wax from which they were “challenged” to make a sculpture that could be cast. The resulting bronzes are on display until 19th September at Dora House, 108 Brompton Road, London, SW7 3RA.
For this challenge I created two small fragments of the map of South America. One is the outline of the Isle of Chiloe in Chile, the other is a Mountain in Chubut, Argentina.
https://sculptors.org.uk/whats-on/2021/exhibition/10gram-challenge
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