Bella Kerr: Civic Dog (Walks) I commissioned Matthew Otten, designer, to make 100 laser-cut slate dogs. The dogs were displayed at the Civic base – the glass porch of the old library building – until they were ‘distributed’ by participants on city walks, to be found (or lost) over future days, weeks or years. The…
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Oriel Davies, Newtown: 04 July 2009 – 05 September 2009 The research identified a series of spaces including redrooms – the parental bedroom and the dining room. Bedrooms are private, the site of confidences, negotiations, plans, dreams, love, hate, sex, birth, illness and death. The dining table is public, the site of rituals that display and support…
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CIVIC Collaborative Curatorial Residency at Residency Unlimited New York. Bella Kerr & Amanda Roderick | October/November 2016 Read more about CIVIC A collaborative investigation of the visible and invisible structures and infrastructures centred on and around the art gallery and other cultural organisations, considering the role of partnerships, dialogue, learning, opportunity and engagement. The collaborative…
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OPUS – Foundation Art & Design, Swansea, staff group In 2007 the staff of the Art and Designer course at Swansea decided to exhibit together for the first time. We took the name Opus from our first exhibition, Nascent Opus, and used it for some years as a way to present ourselves to the world…
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As a fine artist, drawing is a constant in my practice. Drawing is a way of thinking – visually and out loud. It is a process of travelling into the unknown – making new tracks, sometimes with the maps of previous drawings as a guide, sometimes into a place as yet unvisited. The image above,…
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These digital prints, scanned from ink and collaged drawings, are a little clumsy and so seem to refer to that first ‘learning to read’ process of childhood. They were, though, drawn when I was writing an MPhil dissertation and struggling to understand various texts and ideas. The prints were made with the assistance of Tim Stokes,…
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In November 2017, I was invited to show Word Room, The Professors Study, as part of a collaboration between Mission Gallery in Swansea and The Drawing Center in New York. The partnership was included in Mission Gallery’s New York Season which celebrated the strong and on-going connection it made with cultural organisations in New York via Residency Unlimited –…
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Special thanks to all those who were and are part of making Keeper(s) happen. Mission Gallery staff team: Amanda Roderick, Director.Emma Cartwright, Learning & Participation Officer.Rhian Wyn Stone, Retail & Front of House Supervisor (thank you for so many cups of tea!).Deirdre Finnerty, Exhibitions & Marketing Assistant.All Mission volunteers and most especially Jessica Hoad, Lisa Jones, Lisa Collingbourne and Sean Olsen.…
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Supersauraus Residency Project | Swansea 2011 Red Ball started in a hurry – I was offered the project space at Studio Supersaurus in Swansea at very short notice. Studio Supersaurus was set up by four former Swansea Foundation students as a working space for themselves and a space in which they could host events and…
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