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Expression rather than medium

Performance art unlike any art medium is not an art medium. I share the same stance on performance as theorist Jonah Westerman, ‘performance is not (and never was) a medium, not something that an artwork can be but rather a […]

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Well this puts a whole new spin on it

So I had been thinking about gesture as widely as possible … How it is used in dance and choreography – the work of Bob Fosse (Chicago), the choreography of West Side Story, folk dance, Bollywood, Ballroom culture and the […]

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hairs on the back of my neck

Eyes shift focus, soften, close, scan, blur, point, smile, see, listen. gesturing like a limb. Spinal axis and back surfaces shaping figuring sculpting – although shape never quite settling, this figure caught in a push and pull. Something drops lower, […]

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Painting

Big board. Sitting over it. Picking it up and moving it linseed oil – different liquidity – more engagement with materiality . Slips and slides you can feel more of a connection between the brush, paint and board. Physicaly it […]

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Laurel Berry

Artist and and co-organiser of The Immediacy of Paint; The Role of Painting in the Digital Age.

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