Using a combination of digital and analogue processes, I explore the ordinary qualities of everyday items including a white shirt, the sewing needle and obsolete technology. Simple objects are subject to complex questions concerning production, labour, value and the changing industrial landscape both nationally and internationally. Manual and technological dexterities are explored in relation to the body, specifically hand to eye co-ordination, posture and repetition.
Using a combination of digital and analogue processes, I explore the ordinary qualities of everyday items including a white shirt, the sewing needle and obsolete technology. Simple objects are subject to complex questions concerning production, labour, value and the changing industrial landscape both nationally and internationally. Manual and technological dexterities are explored in relation to the body, specifically hand to eye co-ordination, posture and repetition.
Cross discipline dialogue is central to my research and art making processes and I have completed residencies with engineers, architects and archivists. Exploring processes and procedures of other professions facilitates not only the development of knowledge but also new ways of thinking and considering common ground.
Working with the idea that ‘process is practice’, I work to commission, on residency and self initiated projects, using historical and contextual research. Outputs include installation, photography, video and drawing in addition to research papers, blogs and artist talks.
Qualifications and Training
2006 - Post Graduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching for Higher Education, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
2003 - MA Textile Culture, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich
Residencies
2013 - Artist Response: Parliamentary Archives and Norfolk Record Office
2010 - digital making, Hethel Engineering Centre, Near Norwich 2008 - Spatial Divisions, Former Bally Factory, Norwich
2007 - Everyday Obsolescence, Space4 Artist Space, Peterborough
2006 - Sites of production, Fielder Cruse Associates - Architects and Interior Designers, Norwich
Artist Talks
2013 - Artist Response: Administrative Processes + Events = Documents, Parliamentaray Archives, Palace of Westminster, London & Norfolk Record Office, Norwich
2013 - Ten Year Stretch, Norwich University of the Arts
2012 - Touring Territories Project: East Anglian U.F.O archive and Liverpool an inexpert view (revised), The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2011 - Beyond the Studio: Context and Commerce Artist Talk and In Conversation with Barbara Steveni (Artist Placement Group), firstsite at Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester
2011 - Liverpool - an inexpert view, Aid and Abet, Cambridge
2011 - New Industrial Space Artist Talk and Film Screening, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich
2010 - New Industial Space , Norwich 20 Group, Norwich
2010 - New Industrial Space, Eye Arts Guild, Suffolk
2008 - Candy+Code : Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, Barbara Rauch and Nicola Naismith, ICA (Textile Futures Research Group), London
2008 - Configurations: Technology and Textiles, Http Gallery, London
2004 - Challenging Craft - International Conference, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland
2004 - The Space Between - International Conference, Curtin Universty of Technology, Perth, Australia
Group exhibitions
2013 - Init, Departure Lounge, Luton
2011 - Creekside Open Selected by Phillida Barlow, A.P.T. Gallery, London
2011 - Space Exchange / Aid and Abet / Satellite Portflio
2011 Launch, Aid and Abet, Cambridge
2011 - Space Exchange / Aid and Abet / Touring Terratitories - Satellite, Aid and Abet, Cambridge
2010 - Alumni Exhibition, Norwich University College of the Arts, Norwich
2010 - Lost and Found, Kings Lynn Arts Centre, Kings Lynn
2010 - Quilts 1700 - 2010, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2009 - Blue Sky, Anglia Ruskin University Gallery, Cambridge 2008 - Eastern Open, Kings Lynn Arts Centre, Kings Lynn
2008 - Kettles Yard Open, Kettles Yard, Cambridge
2008 - Multichannel, ArtSway galleries, Sway 2008 - Norfolk Photographer of the Year, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich
2007 - RSVP Contemporary Artists at the Foundling, Foundling Museum, London
Solo exhibitions
2011 - New Industrial Space, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich
2010 - The Potential Object, Hethel Engineering Centre, Hethel, Norwich
2009 - en masse, Hethel Engineering Centre, Hethel, Norwich
2005 - White Collar Worker, Inkpen Downie Achitecture and Design Gallery, Colchester
Curated projects
2010 - A Short Term Effect curated by Olga Jurgenson, Art Hall Poligraf, Russia
2010 - Cyberfest - A short term effect curated by Olga Jurgenson, Art hall Poligraf , Russia
2010 - Performing Presence, The National Centre for Contemporary Art, St Petersburg
2010 - Work and Play-Screening of Artist Films and Videos, Free Word Centre, London
Public commissions
2012 - Artist Response: Connecting Communities & Arts in Parliament, Norfolk Record Office & Parliamentary Archives, Westminster, Norwich & London
2007 - RSVP, Foundling Museum, London
Projects
2011 - Satellite In-Conversation Event Beyond the Studio: Context and Commerce Barbara Steveni (Artist Placement Group) and Nicola Naismith, firstsite at Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester
2009 - Satellite In-Conversation Event: Susan Collis and Richard Forster In Conversation, Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich
2007 - Satellite - Artist led collective - Founder Member, Eastern, Region
Competitions, Prizes and Awards
2010 - digital making @ Hethel Engineering Centre, Supported by The National Lottery through Arts Council England, Hethel Engineering Centre, Norfolk County Council, Sir Phillip Reckitt Educational Trust and SCAN , Norwich
2008 - Joint Best in Show, Eastern Open, Kings Lynn Arts Centre, Kings Lynn
2006 - Selected for Escalator Visual Arts, Commissions East & Arts Council England, East, Eastern Region
2006 - Work, Working Practices, Places and Spaces, Grants for the Arts Award, Arts Council England, East 2005 - Selected for Artist Mentoring Scheme, Commissions East, Cambridge
2002 - Arts and Humanities Research Board MA Studentship, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich
Site Specific
2009 - Spatial Divisions - Projection, Former Factory, Norwich
