Angela Cockayne

Artist statement

Currently working on a collaborative project; Dominion, using text, image and photography in filmed performance with author Philip Hoare. This will include a Solo exhibition, Publication and Symposium at Peninsular Arts University of Plymouth and a launch of the Moby Dick Big Read with celebrity readers of the 135 chapters of Moby Dick. People signed up include Tilda Swinton, Simon Callow, John Waters and Nathaniel Philbrick to name a few.

Curation of Provenance International Exhibition, Symposium and Publication.

Contemporary Fine Art Practice, in response to the theme of Provenance and the Wunderkammer. The exhibition and symposium explore a relationship with the history and ethics of collecting natural specimens, and questions posed by a collision of the past, present and the future of such collections. Provenance, like the Wunderkammer is a commentary on the naturalistic representation of the physical world, to stimulate conversation, inspire wonder and to provide a threshold to view our own reflection in the ambiguous connections between the natural world and humanity. James Putnam, Gavin Turk, Tessa Farmer, Jochem Hendricks and Philip Hoare and Mariele Neudecker