Artist statement
“Bob Levene is an artist who embraces the conclusive, ongoing and unpredictable. Her work resounds with a poetic sensibility that defies categorisation, but with a focus on the nature of perception and sound. Adopting pseudo scientific strategies and anthropological methods of recording to analyse the 'nature' of things, she investigates time, distance and communication. In her efforts with limited resources and limited tools, she uncovers with wit and guilefree sincerity a finely balanced poetics of perception that takes us beyond the 'truth' of things into the realm of the absurd”.
Roger McKinley, Corridor8 Magazine, 2009
Solo exhibitions
- 2012 Inertial Frame, NGCA Project Space, AV Festival, Sunderland
- 2009 The Art of Subjective Measuring, HIVE Gallery, Elsecar, Barnsley
- 2006 The Space Between, The Cornerhouse, Manchester
- 2005 New Works* (with ANE), Globe Gallery, North Shields
Group exhibitions
- 2011 I walk the Line, Ultima, Contemporary Music Festival, Oslo Opera House, Norway
- 2011 Solo Show / Group Show, Crate, Margate
- 2009 Performance Now and Then, Gallery North, Newcastle
- 2008 Future 50, PSL, Leeds
- 2006 Captured, National Review of Live Art, Tramway, Glasgow
- 2004 XS An Invitational Exhibition, FA Projects, London
- 2004 Free Fall, Peterborough Digital Arts, UK
Live/Performance
- 2011 Bouncing Off Walls, Symposium, LCC, London
- 2011 Audiograft Festival, Modern Art Oxford, UK
- 2010 Past Signal, Äänen Lumo Festival of New Sounds, Helsinki, Finland
- 2009 Jump Cuts, BBC Radio 3 Cut and Splice Festival, London
- 2007 Handmade, LMC, 16th Experimental Music Festival, London
- 2007 Darkside with Elaine Kordy, Arnolfini, Bristol
- 2001 7th International Computer Arts Festival, Maribor, Slovenia
Residencies
- 2010 Escalator Retreat, Ways and Means, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
- 2008 Sumu Residency, Galleria Titanik, Turku, Finland
- 2008 Space for 10, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, UK
- 1999 Braziers International Workshop, Oxfordshire, UK
Public commissions
- 2012 In The Blink of an Eye, National Media Museum, Bradford
- 2010 Past Signal, Kiasma Mediatheque, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2010 Best film art & experimental film category, 1 Min Film & Video Festival, Aarau, Switzerland
- 2009 Northern Art Prize, Nomination, City Art Gallery, Leeds
- 2006 Mid-Career Bursery Award, Artsadmin, London
- 2003 ACE International Artist Fellowship, Promotora Cultural Civil, Mexico
Educational experience - tertiary
- 2000 MSc Electronic Imaging, Duncan of Jordenstone, Dundee, Scotland
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