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IMAGO is a captivating duet by @pett_clausenknight that exposes the intricate and often hidden dysfunctions in relationships within a coded nod to the Language of Flowers
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A profound journey of two men brings to light the human tendency to hide one’s truth behind beauty in fear of being hurt or in fear of having to accept. A deeply moving and insightful exploration of the human condition that will leave viewers pondering its themes long after its conclusion. The triad of compelling narrative, stirring original score by Sean Pett and electrifying choreography makes IMAGO a gripping experience for both dance enthusiasts and those new to contemporary dance.
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Nominated for ‘Best Independent Dance Company’ at The National Dance Awards, PCK Dance presents their Internationally acclaimed five-star work IMAGO on 18 and 19 March at @theatreroyalplymouth
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#dance #theatre #duet #choreography

forever in the loop of nonrepetitive return is a 35-minute live performance and installation by Joshua Woolford @jshwlfrd and Vivienne Griffin.
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Borrowing the title from David’s Scotts Preface:  Sylvia Wynter’s Agonistic Intimations (Small Axe vol. 20, no. 1, 2016) where Scott refers to the continuous turning-over of past experiences and arrival at new knowledges inherent in Caribbean (perhaps more broadly, diasporic) intellectual inheritances. The re-meeting and reclamation of the things “…we thought we knew but who can now belong to us in new and unexpected ways.”
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Extending this idea to the looping, echoing and reverberating of sound where recognisable and repeated melodies make space and give way to improvisation. Call and response encourages an ever-evolving dialogue through electronic and acoustic instruments, movement of the body and vocals. forever in the loop of nonrepetitive return is an experiment in tone, mood, form and collaborative work. 
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Born out of a desire to devise work that is emergent and liberated from a goal or completion, this work used the space as a site to fragment sound. Six speakers were dispersed throughout the gallery playing six separate channels, breaking away from the stereo output. The mix was made live and in this way was unique to each member of the audience depending on the position they had within the gallery - moving around the space exposed you to different versions of the same piece. Inherently site specific, no evolution of this piece will ever be the same as the last. 
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Other elements of the work which accompanied the electronic soundscape were a co-written text based on Griffin’s PhD thesis, movement, live vocals, and a motorised self-playing harp processed through a modular synthesiser.
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Performed at Matt’s Gallery @mattsgallerylondon
Curated by Anne Duffau @a___________________________z
With samples from Zeena Parkins @zpribbon
Documentation by Chloe Page @clo.xyz
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#performance #installation #art #movement

In ‘Merry Maidens’ Vanessa Garwood @vanessagarwood depicts six women in a moment of abandoned dance. In Garwood’s words, “there is a joy and abandon, a search for hedonism, a recklessness, also a particular kind of hilarity that comes out when women are alone with each other. Along with this strength, connection and unity there is also a real rage and fear.
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'Merry Maidens’ was painted on a residency in Penzance, at Anchor Studios which is a room of such strong creative history that I became obsessed with connecting to the past. It is titled after a Cornish Neolithic stone circle nearby where legend has it that 19 women were turned to stone for irreverently dancing on a Sunday.
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I try to make images that say something current but also timeless, here inspired by the yearly summer solstice revival party called ‘Mazey Day’, which fell on the first night of my residency.  As a contemporary version of an ancient ritual it carries the past into the present. I consider painting to have a collective consciousness, ever evolving and aware, to engage with this I use the subject matter of women dancing together as a language.  Dance is a device for me to connect to a rich history of depiction, makers and of ritual, to build a dialogue between ancient rites and contemporary frivolity.  I want to mirror our world of jumbled meanings and layered contradictions, with a theatricality that is satirical, offering a multitude of truths, simultaneously light and dark. I want to add the stories of a contemporary woman’s search to this cumulative body of stories. The subject matter is also personal, connecting to my history as a dancer, allowing me to continue the use of my own body as a vehicle of performance and expression. The links between dancing and figurative art are many, both are a kind of ritual themselves.”
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View Vanessa’s work at @cookelathamgallery until 28 February as part of the exhibition Fractured Venus.
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#exhibition #art #fineart #gallery #dance

In ‘Merry Maidens’ Vanessa Garwood @vanessagarwood depicts six women in a moment of abandoned dance. In Garwood’s words, “there is a joy and abandon, a search for hedonism, a recklessness, also a particular kind of hilarity that comes out when women are alone with each other. Along with this strength, connection and unity there is also a real rage and fear.
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'Merry Maidens’ was painted on a residency in Penzance, at Anchor Studios which is a room of such strong creative history that I became obsessed with connecting to the past. It is titled after a Cornish Neolithic stone circle nearby where legend has it that 19 women were turned to stone for irreverently dancing on a Sunday.
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I try to make images that say something current but also timeless, here inspired by the yearly summer solstice revival party called ‘Mazey Day’, which fell on the first night of my residency.  As a contemporary version of an ancient ritual it carries the past into the present. I consider painting to have a collective consciousness, ever evolving and aware, to engage with this I use the subject matter of women dancing together as a language.  Dance is a device for me to connect to a rich history of depiction, makers and of ritual, to build a dialogue between ancient rites and contemporary frivolity.  I want to mirror our world of jumbled meanings and layered contradictions, with a theatricality that is satirical, offering a multitude of truths, simultaneously light and dark. I want to add the stories of a contemporary woman’s search to this cumulative body of stories. The subject matter is also personal, connecting to my history as a dancer, allowing me to continue the use of my own body as a vehicle of performance and expression. The links between dancing and figurative art are many, both are a kind of ritual themselves.”
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View Vanessa’s work at @cookelathamgallery until 28 February as part of the exhibition Fractured Venus.
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#exhibition #art #fineart #gallery #dance

In ‘Merry Maidens’ Vanessa Garwood @vanessagarwood depicts six women in a moment of abandoned dance. In Garwood’s words, “there is a joy and abandon, a search for hedonism, a recklessness, also a particular kind of hilarity that comes out when women are alone with each other. Along with this strength, connection and unity there is also a real rage and fear.
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'Merry Maidens’ was painted on a residency in Penzance, at Anchor Studios which is a room of such strong creative history that I became obsessed with connecting to the past. It is titled after a Cornish Neolithic stone circle nearby where legend has it that 19 women were turned to stone for irreverently dancing on a Sunday.
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I try to make images that say something current but also timeless, here inspired by the yearly summer solstice revival party called ‘Mazey Day’, which fell on the first night of my residency.  As a contemporary version of an ancient ritual it carries the past into the present. I consider painting to have a collective consciousness, ever evolving and aware, to engage with this I use the subject matter of women dancing together as a language.  Dance is a device for me to connect to a rich history of depiction, makers and of ritual, to build a dialogue between ancient rites and contemporary frivolity.  I want to mirror our world of jumbled meanings and layered contradictions, with a theatricality that is satirical, offering a multitude of truths, simultaneously light and dark. I want to add the stories of a contemporary woman’s search to this cumulative body of stories. The subject matter is also personal, connecting to my history as a dancer, allowing me to continue the use of my own body as a vehicle of performance and expression. The links between dancing and figurative art are many, both are a kind of ritual themselves.”
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View Vanessa’s work at @cookelathamgallery until 28 February as part of the exhibition Fractured Venus.
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#exhibition #art #fineart #gallery #dance

In ‘Merry Maidens’ Vanessa Garwood @vanessagarwood depicts six women in a moment of abandoned dance. In Garwood’s words, “there is a joy and abandon, a search for hedonism, a recklessness, also a particular kind of hilarity that comes out when women are alone with each other. Along with this strength, connection and unity there is also a real rage and fear.
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'Merry Maidens’ was painted on a residency in Penzance, at Anchor Studios which is a room of such strong creative history that I became obsessed with connecting to the past. It is titled after a Cornish Neolithic stone circle nearby where legend has it that 19 women were turned to stone for irreverently dancing on a Sunday.
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I try to make images that say something current but also timeless, here inspired by the yearly summer solstice revival party called ‘Mazey Day’, which fell on the first night of my residency.  As a contemporary version of an ancient ritual it carries the past into the present. I consider painting to have a collective consciousness, ever evolving and aware, to engage with this I use the subject matter of women dancing together as a language.  Dance is a device for me to connect to a rich history of depiction, makers and of ritual, to build a dialogue between ancient rites and contemporary frivolity.  I want to mirror our world of jumbled meanings and layered contradictions, with a theatricality that is satirical, offering a multitude of truths, simultaneously light and dark. I want to add the stories of a contemporary woman’s search to this cumulative body of stories. The subject matter is also personal, connecting to my history as a dancer, allowing me to continue the use of my own body as a vehicle of performance and expression. The links between dancing and figurative art are many, both are a kind of ritual themselves.”
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View Vanessa’s work at @cookelathamgallery until 28 February as part of the exhibition Fractured Venus.
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#exhibition #art #fineart #gallery #dance

In ‘Merry Maidens’ Vanessa Garwood @vanessagarwood depicts six women in a moment of abandoned dance. In Garwood’s words, “there is a joy and abandon, a search for hedonism, a recklessness, also a particular kind of hilarity that comes out when women are alone with each other. Along with this strength, connection and unity there is also a real rage and fear.
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'Merry Maidens’ was painted on a residency in Penzance, at Anchor Studios which is a room of such strong creative history that I became obsessed with connecting to the past. It is titled after a Cornish Neolithic stone circle nearby where legend has it that 19 women were turned to stone for irreverently dancing on a Sunday.
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I try to make images that say something current but also timeless, here inspired by the yearly summer solstice revival party called ‘Mazey Day’, which fell on the first night of my residency.  As a contemporary version of an ancient ritual it carries the past into the present. I consider painting to have a collective consciousness, ever evolving and aware, to engage with this I use the subject matter of women dancing together as a language.  Dance is a device for me to connect to a rich history of depiction, makers and of ritual, to build a dialogue between ancient rites and contemporary frivolity.  I want to mirror our world of jumbled meanings and layered contradictions, with a theatricality that is satirical, offering a multitude of truths, simultaneously light and dark. I want to add the stories of a contemporary woman’s search to this cumulative body of stories. The subject matter is also personal, connecting to my history as a dancer, allowing me to continue the use of my own body as a vehicle of performance and expression. The links between dancing and figurative art are many, both are a kind of ritual themselves.”
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View Vanessa’s work at @cookelathamgallery until 28 February as part of the exhibition Fractured Venus.
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#exhibition #art #fineart #gallery #dance

We were lucky enough to catch Samara Langham’s stunning movement piece, SKYE ZONE Burial, last Thursday at The Place - a phenomenal work by an incredibly talented group of artists.
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“Mouths filled with soot. Moss and moisture seep in under soft feet. Shrieks glisten in the dampening air. We dance from earth to sky.”
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Samara Langham @samaralangham presents the next chapter to previous works Haku and as if almost erasing. SKYE ZONE Burial explores fragility and imagination through a dream-like sequence. In collaboration with Jasper Maurice and Edward Saunders, sound, lighting and movement converge for a bold, sensorial world.
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Samara Langham is a London-based choreographer and dance artist. Previously she trained at London Contemporary Dance School and has worked with Botis Seva, Sharon Eyal, Holly Blakey, Magnus Westwell, and Sung-Im Her. With its uncompromising physicality, her work explores the sensorial body and its world building process. Samara also experiments with sound, visual arts and improvisation, creating, collaborating and performing across dance theatre, experimental music and interdisciplinary events.
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Performed 6 February 2025 @theplacelondon as part of Resolution Festival
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Performers @_jessebl_ @mark.halton171 @elvishion_
Sound @jasomaurice
Light @edwardjamessaunders
Camera @isobel_bridge
Sound @jasomaurice
Edit @samaralangham
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#contemporarydance #dance #performance #movement

Daphne van de Velde’s work is at Art on Paper from February 6-9 in Amsterdam!
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Van de Velde lives and works in Arnhem. She has a background in contemporary dance and graduated from the ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten and the Fotoacademie Amsterdam. She’s an innovative multimedia artist who experiments the limitations of the photographic medium, performance, multimedia and sculpture. In her work she is constantly exploring the boundaries between these artistic disciplines in order to cross them.
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@daphnevandevelde @galerie_de_baas
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DRESS | photo sculpture | fine art print on Kozo Japanese paper 60 x 70 x 120 cm, edition of 3 + 2 AP | 2021
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#installation #artonpaper #amsterdam #exhibition #photosculpture #fineart

Daphne van de Velde’s work is at Art on Paper from February 6-9 in Amsterdam!
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Van de Velde lives and works in Arnhem. She has a background in contemporary dance and graduated from the ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten and the Fotoacademie Amsterdam. She’s an innovative multimedia artist who experiments the limitations of the photographic medium, performance, multimedia and sculpture. In her work she is constantly exploring the boundaries between these artistic disciplines in order to cross them.
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@daphnevandevelde @galerie_de_baas
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DRESS | photo sculpture | fine art print on Kozo Japanese paper 60 x 70 x 120 cm, edition of 3 + 2 AP | 2021
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#installation #artonpaper #amsterdam #exhibition #photosculpture #fineart

Daphne van de Velde’s work is at Art on Paper from February 6-9 in Amsterdam!
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Van de Velde lives and works in Arnhem. She has a background in contemporary dance and graduated from the ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten and the Fotoacademie Amsterdam. She’s an innovative multimedia artist who experiments the limitations of the photographic medium, performance, multimedia and sculpture. In her work she is constantly exploring the boundaries between these artistic disciplines in order to cross them.
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@daphnevandevelde @galerie_de_baas
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DRESS | photo sculpture | fine art print on Kozo Japanese paper 60 x 70 x 120 cm, edition of 3 + 2 AP | 2021
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#installation #artonpaper #amsterdam #exhibition #photosculpture #fineart

Lulu Wang’s exhibition Human Puzzle explored the regeneration of identities and their bond to human nature through movement and new technologies. We particularly love this sculpture, ‘Whispers’, made of degradable polylactic acid.
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Lulu Wang @lulu_wangyx is a London-based Chinese visual and performance artist who works with 3D-printed sculptures and movement. She draws inspiration from her heritage and experiences as a displaced individual and digital subculture to explore the hybrid identity and connections between humanity and space. Through sculpture making, installation and immersive live performance with movement, her practice revolves around visual work in collaboration with new technologies. Her practice often collaborates with fashion design, music and sound to explore the integration of cultures.
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Inspired by her interests in post-humanism narratives and digital subculture, Wang's practice is a conversion of hybrid bodies and visual elements by incorporating new technologies with life bodies. Using hybrid visual language to provide a psychedelic perspective of the human experience thereby revealing the fullness of its possibilities.
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Check out Lulu’s fascinating interview with @showstudio for an exploration of the intricate puzzle of human existence, and also the the complexities of intimacy, identity, and connection that come along with it. Link in Lulu’s bio.
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Whispers
60cm x 60 cm x 90 cm
From Human Puzzle at Sarabande Foundation, 26 - 29 September 2024
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📷 @maxoppenheim @oppenheimstudios
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#sculpture #performanceart #exhibition

Lulu Wang’s exhibition Human Puzzle explored the regeneration of identities and their bond to human nature through movement and new technologies. We particularly love this sculpture, ‘Whispers’, made of degradable polylactic acid.
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Lulu Wang @lulu_wangyx is a London-based Chinese visual and performance artist who works with 3D-printed sculptures and movement. She draws inspiration from her heritage and experiences as a displaced individual and digital subculture to explore the hybrid identity and connections between humanity and space. Through sculpture making, installation and immersive live performance with movement, her practice revolves around visual work in collaboration with new technologies. Her practice often collaborates with fashion design, music and sound to explore the integration of cultures.
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Inspired by her interests in post-humanism narratives and digital subculture, Wang's practice is a conversion of hybrid bodies and visual elements by incorporating new technologies with life bodies. Using hybrid visual language to provide a psychedelic perspective of the human experience thereby revealing the fullness of its possibilities.
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Check out Lulu’s fascinating interview with @showstudio for an exploration of the intricate puzzle of human existence, and also the the complexities of intimacy, identity, and connection that come along with it. Link in Lulu’s bio.
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Whispers
60cm x 60 cm x 90 cm
From Human Puzzle at Sarabande Foundation, 26 - 29 September 2024
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📷 @maxoppenheim @oppenheimstudios
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#sculpture #performanceart #exhibition

Lulu Wang’s exhibition Human Puzzle explored the regeneration of identities and their bond to human nature through movement and new technologies. We particularly love this sculpture, ‘Whispers’, made of degradable polylactic acid.
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Lulu Wang @lulu_wangyx is a London-based Chinese visual and performance artist who works with 3D-printed sculptures and movement. She draws inspiration from her heritage and experiences as a displaced individual and digital subculture to explore the hybrid identity and connections between humanity and space. Through sculpture making, installation and immersive live performance with movement, her practice revolves around visual work in collaboration with new technologies. Her practice often collaborates with fashion design, music and sound to explore the integration of cultures.
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Inspired by her interests in post-humanism narratives and digital subculture, Wang's practice is a conversion of hybrid bodies and visual elements by incorporating new technologies with life bodies. Using hybrid visual language to provide a psychedelic perspective of the human experience thereby revealing the fullness of its possibilities.
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Check out Lulu’s fascinating interview with @showstudio for an exploration of the intricate puzzle of human existence, and also the the complexities of intimacy, identity, and connection that come along with it. Link in Lulu’s bio.
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Whispers
60cm x 60 cm x 90 cm
From Human Puzzle at Sarabande Foundation, 26 - 29 September 2024
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📷 @maxoppenheim @oppenheimstudios
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#sculpture #performanceart #exhibition

We’re celebrating our collaborators 2B Or Not 2B Collective as they start the new year in style
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2B Or Not 2B Collective @2bornot2bcollective are a POC-run collective based in London, whose focus is to uplift marginalised bodies within the art world, and make art accessible and enjoyable for everyone. 
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From Leighton House to Selfridges, they’re putting on some fantastic life drawing events in amazing spaces this spring. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never done life drawing before, or if you’re a seasoned regular. If it's something you've been meaning to try and have been nervous to get into - this is your perfect opportunity. Bring a friend and / or meet some new ones!
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Check the link in their bio for tickets, and also make sure you check out their White Stuff article - it’s an inspiring read, all about the importance of art, diversity and creating community.
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#lifedrawing #thingstodoinlondon #drawing

We’d love to hear your thoughts
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We’re taking some time to reflect on all that we have achieved in the last two years, and to look ahead together at what the future of Flux will bring. We’d love your feedback on our projects, events, exhibitions, workshops and films so far. Your thoughts will help us know what we’re doing well, and what we could do even better.
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Please fill in our feedback form, which is linked in our bio, by 31 Jan 2025. This will give us enough time to review your feedback.
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If you’ve attended a Flux Projects workshop or event with someone else, please send them this post or a link to the survey so they can fill it in too.
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We look forward to hearing from you!
The Flux Projects Team x

We want to highlight a Flux Artist’s, Anouk Jouanne, upcoming short film that will premier this weekend on @anoukjouanne’s channels.

‘Rising from a question of how a specific space can carry both our personal and private behaviour in one, we see an alternative to our socially learned behaviour within the walls of a bar’.

The concept of the film comes from the interest and challenge in how we might change our everyday movement into something we would usually deem abstract or unnatural, while executing said behaviour as if it’s the most normal and efficient way to fulfil our tasks or purpose. How can the requirements of this room, its purpose, its patterns, its movement and its architecture, serve as a starting point for an alternative way of representing the space.

Credits;

Direction & Movement: Anouk Jouanne @anoukjouanne
Director of Photography: Scarlett Gardner @scarlettgardner_
Composer: Joanna Ward @gingerjoanna

Editor: Marysa Finnie @fatherfatbeats
Production Coordinator: Roisin Little @roisinlittle
Director’s Assistant: Ella Posti @ellaamari

1st AD: Ben Sitton @bensitton_film
Steadicam Operator: Jak Waughman @jaksteadi
1st AC: Christina Ivanova @kiki_ivanova
2nd AC: Connor Pearce @connorpearce.profile
Gaffer/DIT: Cassius Kane @cassius.kane
Grade: Scarlett Gardner @scarlettgardner_
Set assistant: Alejandra Gissler @alejandragissler
Double bass improv: Caius Williams @caiuswilliams_

Cast:
Isis Clunie @iclunie_
Alex Henderson @alexhenderso.n

Jasmin Nowak Fearon @jasmin.nf
Maya Marsh @mayaruthmarsh
Jule Niekamp @ccjule
Tom Rodwell @tjrodwell
Marshall Stay @marshallstay
Alice Marriott @alice_marriott
Carly Oskar @carlyoskar
Sarah Golden @s.rizgold

Movement research & development team
Ella Posti @ellaamari
Thea Kallhed Möller @theakallhed
Isis Clunie @iclunie_
Alex Henderson @alexhenderso.n
Emily Lue Fong @emilyluefong
Sarah Golden @s.rizgold
Maya Marsh @mayaruthmarsh

Thank you to
Michael Sager
Orsi Ajvazov
Lorenzo Franzoia
Sager & Wilde @sagerandwilde
Linn Fletcher
Kiri Leigh Zullo#dance #thingstodoinlondon #movement #london #contemporarydance #performanceart

We’re delighted to showcase more artwork by Audrey Blue via our profile on @artsy (link in bio).
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Audrey Blue’s @artdrey__ work explores intimacy, fragility and existentialism while examining her own lesbian existence. Set to the landscape of a still-conflicted Northern Ireland and its divided relationship with queerness. In part masquerading herself as others and the idea of the perfect or desired other, her work is a tangled mix of rage and identity issues, toggling too-close- to-home with girlhood clichés while simultaneous numbness and liberation fumble together to create tender environments with an often-bitter aftertaste.
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Between a purgative and cathartic state that typically fuels a coming-of-age story, in this regard it is to the lesbian or sexually divisive female’s lens that hovers in queer limbo through diffused washes of bold colours, mixed emotions and fleeting bodies.
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ELOISE IV (2019), LATER THAT EVENING (2020), GLAD (2022), HNGVR (2018), SHALLOW RELEIF (2018)
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#artsy #art #photography #gicleeprint #limitededition

We’re delighted to showcase more artwork by Audrey Blue via our profile on @artsy (link in bio).
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Audrey Blue’s @artdrey__ work explores intimacy, fragility and existentialism while examining her own lesbian existence. Set to the landscape of a still-conflicted Northern Ireland and its divided relationship with queerness. In part masquerading herself as others and the idea of the perfect or desired other, her work is a tangled mix of rage and identity issues, toggling too-close- to-home with girlhood clichés while simultaneous numbness and liberation fumble together to create tender environments with an often-bitter aftertaste.
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Between a purgative and cathartic state that typically fuels a coming-of-age story, in this regard it is to the lesbian or sexually divisive female’s lens that hovers in queer limbo through diffused washes of bold colours, mixed emotions and fleeting bodies.
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ELOISE IV (2019), LATER THAT EVENING (2020), GLAD (2022), HNGVR (2018), SHALLOW RELEIF (2018)
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#artsy #art #photography #gicleeprint #limitededition

We’re delighted to showcase more artwork by Audrey Blue via our profile on @artsy (link in bio).
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Audrey Blue’s @artdrey__ work explores intimacy, fragility and existentialism while examining her own lesbian existence. Set to the landscape of a still-conflicted Northern Ireland and its divided relationship with queerness. In part masquerading herself as others and the idea of the perfect or desired other, her work is a tangled mix of rage and identity issues, toggling too-close- to-home with girlhood clichés while simultaneous numbness and liberation fumble together to create tender environments with an often-bitter aftertaste.
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Between a purgative and cathartic state that typically fuels a coming-of-age story, in this regard it is to the lesbian or sexually divisive female’s lens that hovers in queer limbo through diffused washes of bold colours, mixed emotions and fleeting bodies.
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ELOISE IV (2019), LATER THAT EVENING (2020), GLAD (2022), HNGVR (2018), SHALLOW RELEIF (2018)
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#artsy #art #photography #gicleeprint #limitededition

We’re delighted to showcase more artwork by Audrey Blue via our profile on @artsy (link in bio).
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Audrey Blue’s @artdrey__ work explores intimacy, fragility and existentialism while examining her own lesbian existence. Set to the landscape of a still-conflicted Northern Ireland and its divided relationship with queerness. In part masquerading herself as others and the idea of the perfect or desired other, her work is a tangled mix of rage and identity issues, toggling too-close- to-home with girlhood clichés while simultaneous numbness and liberation fumble together to create tender environments with an often-bitter aftertaste.
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Between a purgative and cathartic state that typically fuels a coming-of-age story, in this regard it is to the lesbian or sexually divisive female’s lens that hovers in queer limbo through diffused washes of bold colours, mixed emotions and fleeting bodies.
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ELOISE IV (2019), LATER THAT EVENING (2020), GLAD (2022), HNGVR (2018), SHALLOW RELEIF (2018)
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#artsy #art #photography #gicleeprint #limitededition

We’re delighted to showcase more artwork by Audrey Blue via our profile on @artsy (link in bio).
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Audrey Blue’s @artdrey__ work explores intimacy, fragility and existentialism while examining her own lesbian existence. Set to the landscape of a still-conflicted Northern Ireland and its divided relationship with queerness. In part masquerading herself as others and the idea of the perfect or desired other, her work is a tangled mix of rage and identity issues, toggling too-close- to-home with girlhood clichés while simultaneous numbness and liberation fumble together to create tender environments with an often-bitter aftertaste.
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Between a purgative and cathartic state that typically fuels a coming-of-age story, in this regard it is to the lesbian or sexually divisive female’s lens that hovers in queer limbo through diffused washes of bold colours, mixed emotions and fleeting bodies.
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ELOISE IV (2019), LATER THAT EVENING (2020), GLAD (2022), HNGVR (2018), SHALLOW RELEIF (2018)
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#artsy #art #photography #gicleeprint #limitededition

Megan Rooney’s work Night Folly (2024) is part of the exhibition Motion in Stillness: Dance and the Human Body in Movement at the Victoria Miro Gallery @victoriamirogallery until 18 January 2025
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“‘I weld paint in order to try and bring us back inside of our bodies,’ Rooney explains of her uniquely physical approach to making a painting. Jogging daily to her studio to summon the energy she needs, she moves her body constantly around the canvas as she works – shuffling, reaching, crawling, bending – the result of which is a paint surface made up of huge variety of different marks. The energy of this surface is palpable, disorientating and compelling. Rooney describes herself as ‘a construction worker’, building up layers of paint over a long period of time only to ‘excavate’ (sand it off), when the rhythm of the painting requires. Colour becomes her ‘collaborator’, punctuating and articulating the canvas like a musical rhythm. The present work is one of Rooney’s so-called ‘wingspan paintings’, the canvas measurements cut according to the wingspan of an average woman.
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Rooney, who danced herself, frequently presents her work alongside dance that has been choreographed in response to it. The titles of her works reference memories of place or times of day and the palette always responds to the season in which the work was made. The bluey green undertones of this painting echo the darker days of January, when this painting began its life. Describing it as one of her ‘night paintings’, Rooney adds small touches of intense pink and yellow paint that suggest city lights emerging from the velvety darkness.”
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The exhibition also features works by María Berrío, Karon Davis, Rachel Kneebone, Kylie Manning, France-Lise McGurn, Florence Peake, Paula Rego and Xiyao Wang. Make sure to catch it before it closes this weekend!
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#fineart #motion #movement #painting #exhibition #london #thingstodoinlondon

2024!
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We’re reflecting on our second year of exploring, learning, growing, sharing, collaborating, connecting and building a beautiful, vast community.
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From exhibiting at London Art Fair to launching 2 beautiful books, hosting monthly life drawing and dance workshops to collating short films for screenings, and curating performance and artworks at BLOK Leyton, we’ve been busy. This is just a small selection of things we’ve worked on this year. If you want to see more details then head to our website where you’ll find our archive of unforgettable year.
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What was your Flux highlight of 2024? We’d love to hear from you in the comments!
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With thanks to our incredibly talented and generous artists, photographers, dancers, performers and filmmakers - thank you for bringing your creativity and trust. And to our Flux community, without you this wouldn’t be worth it. Thank you for your continued support.
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There’s so much more to come and we can’t wait to share it with you. Wishing you all much love and happiness in 2025, from Flux Projects 🙏🏻 (Hannah & Merrick)