The Power of Ten - an exhibtion curated by JAW
The Power of Ten was curated and organised by Alison Whitmore of JAW for the 10th iteration of Platforms Project, Athens by Artemis Potomaniou. With this exhibition JAW showed exclusively women artists, based in the Midlands region of the UK, and with a particular focus on exploring politically engaged artists’ work. The works opened various dialogues including feminism, social justice, climate change, food security, racism, poverty and war.
On Tuesday 19th October 2021 JAW (Alison Whitmore and Jackie Berridge) are travelling to Athens for Platforms Project 2021. We can’t wait and are busy getting our works packed up ready to go.
This year we are showing a retrospective of some pieces which have been shown at Platforms Project over the last 7 years. We are working on a collaboration of stitched works, representing the 118 women killed by men in the UK between March 2020 and March 2021. We are showing this as a work in progress.
In addition we are making a collaborative ‘live’ drawing, which member s of the public will be able to see being made for at least 1 hours each day of the exhibition.
The plan is to travel to Athens in October for the 2021 iteration of Platforms, which will again be held at the Athens School of Fine Art. Everything still hangs in the balance due to the Covid-19 pandemic, not to mention the current wildfires destroying large areas of forest, homes and business is Greece. The outskirts of Athens have been threatened once again by these wildfires. I hope and pray that everyone is safe.
Check out the week-long teaser for Platforms Project Net 2021 online exhibition. I am taking part as JAW, alongside Jackie Berridge and hosted by Liesbeth Bos as part of artflatforms | elsewhere.
The teaser will be available to view online from 5th to 11th April 2021 at https://platformsproject.com/
This year I am once again participating in Platforms Project, who are creating several events for artist led groups and organisations. JAW, the independent artist group, formed in 2019, along with Jackie Berridge will be showing works online for 7 days during March 2021, then with a larger virtual exhibition during May 2021.
Curator Artemis Potamaniou is working towards a physical iteration of .Platforms Project in October 2021. We hope and pray that we will be able to attend in person.
Curators from Crop Up Gallery, University of Nottingham’s student curatorial group selected my work, from an open call, to show as part of an exciting exhibition. Crop Up Gallery have done a fantastic job of selecting and hanging this intriguing show at the Wallner Gallery, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham. This show explores the experience of the viewer, and allows them to interact with the art in different ways; through touch, sound and moving images.
The exhibition, which opened on 22nd February runs until 29th March 2020, features some of my ‘Little House(s) of Crap’ body of work.
The FLUX Review magazine’s first ever print edition is out now, and my work is featured in an artist profile on page 212.
https://www.thefluxreview.com
Planning is in full swing for JAW's 1st project. We are undertaking a collaborative project entitled 'Journey' which will see JAW travel by train, boat and bus, making work on the way, to exhibit at Platforms Project 2020, Athens.
The exhibition runs from 14 May until 17 May 2020 at Athens School of Fine Art, Pireos, Ag. Ioannis Rentis 182 33, Greece
28 September to 4 October
I travelled down to the Mothership, deep in the Dorset countryside, for a week-long residency. This live/work studio space, owned and run by Anna Best, is set overlooking a small river, with woods on the opposite bank, located approximately 1 mile outside the village of Powerstock. This space, without internet access, is ideal for quiet reflection and focussing on artwork.
I spent a week walking in the countryside and on the coast, collecting litter, cataloguing it and exploring the idea of litter picking as an art form. This enabled me to simultaneously collect materials for my assemblage work.
Over the course of 4 days out litter picking I collected 1095 pieces, including 136 plastic bottle caps and 112 pieces of marine/fishing rope. In addition, 361 of the items collected had been in the environment so long that they were no longer identifiable.
I do not yet know how I will use this information or the pieces I have kept, but just on a documentary level I find this shocking and upsetting. It is clear, that in the areas where more people gather or pass through there is a far bigger problem with litter in the environment than more remote areas of the countryside.
https://mothershipresidencies.tumblr.com
Platforms Project is a fantastic opportunity to meet and network with artists from across the globe. Instigated, managed and curated by the energetic and talented Artemis Potamaniou, Platforms Project is currently located at the School of Fine Art, Athens. Previous incarnations have been attached to commercial art fair Art Athina and located in a cultural centre in the city centre.
My sixth year running at Platforms didn’t disappoint. This year I showed under the H-M-S banner as part of an exhibition entitled ‘House’. This saw Jackie Berridge and I select and curate the work of artists from four groups from various parts of the UK; H-M-S, Sci Arts (Liverpool), Fronteer (Sheffield) and Southwell Artists, and show our work alongside.
