Rosanna Greaves

Rosanna Greaves’ practice is predominately site specific, using the site of exhibition as the initial point of research, seeking out historically or socially interesting places to exhibit, such as a disused dairy depot or a C18th observatory.
Researching the site both as it stands and its previous usage, Rosanna follows a number of lines of research, leading to conversations and collaborations with people who either have a relationship to the site, or work in a discipline relevant to the site. This research method culminates in multi-layered installations that allow for simultaneity of different narratives and time frames indicated by the site of exhibition.
Recent works include ‘Footwork’ Made for ‘ Nothing Works’ held at Shoreditch Town Hall, as part of Open House. A multi channel sound installation made for a blocked off staircase in the basement of the town hall. The work brought together the sounds of ballroom dance practice and a boxing training session. Drawing on the town halls past as a professional boxing venue and the upper floors current use as a formal ballroom.
In 2008 Rosanna exhibited and was the assistant curator for ‘Diary of a derelict Dairy’ an exhibition held at a disused Express Dairy depot in Bloomsbury London, as part of London Festival of Architecture (LFA). In collaboration with the exhibitions curator Minnie Weisz she made ‘Everybody Wants to be a Milkman’, a sound work for headphones based on conversations had with a milkman who had worked in the depot for the entire time it was a functioning dairy, and who was also exhibiting photographs taken from the roof of his float during his rounds.
Rosannas installations are made of recorded sounds, using the space itself as the main visual component reducing aesthetic comforts and allowing for a closer relationship to music and performance. The installations sometimes also include other components such as text, posters and photographs.
Rosanna also adopts this method of interrelated narrative and collaboration for non site-specific sound works and videos.

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Since Graduating from Middlesex University in 2002 Rosanna Greaves has exhibited in a number of exhibitions both in the UK and internationally.
As a site-specific sound artist, her work has close links to architecture and social history. Prompting her preference to work in a variety of culturally engaging, unconventional exhibition spaces.
The nature of her research based, site-specific practice has lead to a number of collaborations with people from other disciplines such as scientists, musicians and architects, forming the architectural partnership ‘Plunbum’ in 2005 and receiving third place in the RIBA Kielder Observatory Competition.
Rosanna has contributed to a number of publications both as an artist and theorist, including publishing her own artist book ‘87’ in 2002 and contributing to ‘On The Page; Performance Research’ published by Routledge in 2004.
Alongside her own practice Rosanna has also been a lecturer of Fine Art at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University since 2005.


Rebecca Lennon

Rebecca Lennon combines video, performance, sound and installation in an ongoing
process of montage, reconstruction, displacement, intervention and reinterpretation.
Relating the seemingly unrelated and drawing from the everyday, illogical and
discarded things that often slip out of the landscape unnoticed, Lennon is interested in
communication and by extension miscommunication - what is passed on, shared,
exchanged - what is broken down, changed, lost.

Dealing primarily with the search for meaning and synchronicity via (seemingly) illogical or irrational means, Lennon juxtaposes readily available materials with alien scenario’s to create montage spaces and ritualistic constructions, drawing upon subjects as diverse as divided support groups for an urban underground tunnel, superstition, cargo cults and sleep-talking. Adopting a creative process as ritualistic as the subjects she draws from, narratives and systems are created and merged; combining the found with the personal, the individual with the social and the real with the invented.

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Born in 1981 in Manchester, Rebecca Lennon graduated with a B.A in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University in 2004 and is currently completing her M.A in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Art, London. In the four years between B.A and M.A, Lennon has exhibited widely while curating projects and screening programmes for a range of galleries, festivals and institutions both in the UK and abroad (such as FACT, Zuviel TV and Openeye Gallery). After a year long self-imposed (ace funded) residency in Berlin, Lennon began working as an artist with Metro Galerie in Mitte and is currently represented by Ceri Hand gallery, Liverpool.



Robert Luzar

Thinking is a continuous subject in Robert's works. Using drawing in as close a live form as possible (performance, or moving-mage) the cerebral act appears as a literal mark, or at least a location. Abstraction and figuration arise throughout the display of intensities, and obsessive production, animating a tension that appears between non-representation and a unique (pure) presentation. When used with performance, drawing here appears as a register, or recording.


Often, Robert's approach for creating appears under a trademark: gramme(e). Historically this term is in part found in a broadly philosophical “trace” (or tracing), and a more scientifically neutral form of measurement. Upon these meanings, his activities extend “gramme(e)” as a commitment (to think through the elements presented in the work itself). Resulting, are forms of directly manifesting, or “recording” forms of thinking, investigation, or insight, at once abstract and concrete.
Themes such as Time and language appear directly in his forms of drawing, more to be exhausted than for their celebration.

ARTIST BIOG.

Since 2005, Robert has lived in London (UK), and continued his art practice. After completing the MA at Chelsea College of Art & Design his works have appeared in various venues and events throughout the UK, Europe, and abroad. Experimentation has always been an important factor in the works that he creates, emphasizing a sense of the live, or performance.