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Origin of Material :

Part 3 :

Coppice Line

Charcoal used are coppiced locally in the surrounding woodland areas of Mottisfont, National Trust.

Day 2 of 2 as part of a micro artist in residence ‘The Observatory’ in association with SPUD Charity, working in partnership with Chapel Arts, Andover and Test Valley Arts Foundation.

The Observatory

Mottisfont, National Trust

Romsey. England

2016

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Origin of Material :

Part 2 

Site Drawing

Mottisfont Spring Water + Dried Indigo Leaves

Day 1 of 2 as part of a micro artist in residence ‘The Observatory’ in association with SPUD Charity, working in partnership with Chapel Arts, Andover and Test Valley Arts Foundation.

Indigo Leaves harvested and dried from the region of SaPa. North Vietnam. The dried leaves are ground into a fine powder using a Mortar and Pestle. The powder is mixed with water collected from Mottisfont natural spring to create a drawing ink. The ink is applied using finger tips onto the surface of the traditional handmade Dó paper from Hue. Central Vietnam

The site's name ‘Mottisfont’ comes from a spring ("font") that is still producing water in the grounds. It was the font around which the local community held its

moots

or meetings.

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Origin of Material :

Part 1 

Indigo - Faspian Mountain, SaPa. Vietnam

August 2016

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Nón lá / Leaf Hat Thuan An Beach Hue,Vietnam 2016

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pair of … Female artist

Kimvi Nguyen : Ieva Ripinskyte

Non La - Vietnamese leaf hat

Vietnam - England - Lithuania 2016

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Vietnam/ England 2015

London. England 2015

Amsterdam. Netherlands 2015

Kaunas. Lithuania 2016 

Venice. Italy 2016

British -  Vietnamese / Tourist - Artist

Visiting Vietnam for the first time, the birth place of my parents.  Exploring the language of culture and identity by using objects displaced from the country of origin. 

Vietnamese Conical Hat Non la - Leaf Hat Traditional symbol of Vietnamese people without age, sex or racial distinctions. - English Phrase 'Wearing Two Hats' meaning having several roles

Inspiration : The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi.

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 Perspective 

Deliberate depictions of simple but ubiquitous and exaggerated stereotypes readily signal specific ethnic or cultural groups such as a large round circle, often with an inner concentric ring, to represent an aerial view of alternatively a Mexican sombrero, a cowboy hat, or a leaf hat worn by the Vietnamese whilst riding a bicycle.

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CAS ( Chapel Arts Studio) Artist retreat at Monkton Wyld Court, Dorset.

A weekend away in the beautiful county of Dorset with members of CAS was an opportunity for artists to lead conversations and workshops.

 The weekend was an opportunity to introduce a shared group drawing exercise.  To explore the idea of communal creativity.Re-examining and questioning personal boundaries from our mark making on to a floor size sheet of fabriano cotton paper. The scale of the paper invited artist to work with each other and re-examine the relationship between space and boundaries. Whilst attaching drawing implements to our limbs, encouraging extended and exaggerated movements. Resulting in 2 large group drawings created by individual artist traces, marks and gestures. Materials used were graphite, ink, charcoal, pencils, masking tape, marker pens, brushes and erasers. 

The shared drawing was an extension to previous experience from a workshop about Drawing as Performance directed by Ram Samocha.

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“Zero is silence. Zero is the beginning.”

These are the opening words of the manifesto drafted in 1963 by the ZERO artist : that exceptional moment between countdown and rocket launch, the “incommensurable zone in which the old state turns into the new”.

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DASH 

Chalk Pastel

5 Hours Durational Drawing Performance

Part of Art : Language : Location (ALL) Is an art festival taking place over two and half weeks in October 2015 in locations throughout Cambridge, featuring innovative and experimental contemporary artists from across the UK and beyond who use text in their work.

Performance location : Helmore 1st Floor Project Space Anglia Ruskin University East Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB1 1PT

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SCENE

Chalk, Pine City Museum Winchester. UK 2015

Coarse Components Poem by Richard Stillman 2015

Hyde and Taverners Writers collaboration present CHALK LEGENDS as part of the 10days 2015 ‘CHALK’ Sharing Heritage Project.

Winchester 10Days Chalk art event project collaboration with locally found materials and poet, Richard Stillman. Combining the role of art and the perspective of history in the context of the museum environment. 

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Dash Dashes

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Draw to Perform Workshop – Drawing becomes Performance

DRAW TO PERFORM visits GOLDSMITHS, Day 2 – Workshop1 – Sun Sep 6, 2015, 10:00-13:00

Goldsmiths, University of London, Design Festival Department of Design, Stuart Hall Building

A workshop about Drawing Performance directed by Ram Samocha. Samocha is a multidisciplinary artist and the curator of Draw to Perform, an international symposium for Drawing Performance.

Drawing as live performance of mark making  , exploring the physical gestures and body movement that connects elements of line, movement, space and time. Focusing on the connection and combination of live action and drawing. The workshop allows participates to experiment with this practice and talk about possible options of process and presentation.

I chose graphite powder as my material to trace my actions. I was intrigued by its metallic properties and its quality to undefined the edges of the line, compare to a point from a pencil.

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Black Square - Live performance during opening night. Canvas board, Charcoal Surface Gallery Nottingham 2015

As part of Surface Gallery group painting exhibition ‘ Painted Surface’. Featuring works that expand the definition of painting. The opportunity to introduce Black Square performance to a live audience in a art gallery environment in contrast to its origins inside an abandon Naval Academy on Kronstadt, Kotlin Island in The Russian Federation.  

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Busy week of performance art

London - July 30th -  TheCryptGallery MeetingPoint group art exhibition performance art during private view 6.30/9.00 NonLa conical hat

Saigon Vietnam - London England

Nottingham - July 31st -  Surface gallery Painted surface contemporary painting art exhibition performing ‘BLACK SQUARE’ during opening night 6:00/9:00 Canvasboard charcoal

Kronstadt Russia - Nottingham England

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INTERVAL :

part 1 : 10th March 2015 5:30/7:30 part 2 : 13th March 2015 5:30/7:30 

Chalk Pastel

Turner Sims

Southampton

2015

in association with International Woman Day and CAKE Southampton.

A collaboration of female creative minds have come together to organise events to celebrate International Women’s Day 2015 throughout the month of March.

CAKE Southampton curated exhibition in Turner Sims foyer started with INTERVAL a site- specific live drawing performance using chalk pastel to conduct a series of repetitive gestures derived from limitations of my outstretched arms'.

My movements are marked directly onto the wall of the foyer space at the Turner Sims. INTERVAL was developed over a period of two events allowing for visitors to observe the progress before or during the concert intervals. My use of materials is to facilitate and stimulate both physical and cultural associations, to raise questions about place and people, as well as exploring the relationship between drawing and performance. The result of each drawing is a conceptual score of efficacious techniques, imposed variables, and specified duration's or objectives.

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Selvedge 2015/2016

Lino print designs on cold press watercolour paper for Inigo Scout luxury art blanket project . Exploring the process of Lino Printing, examining the direction of the line/gouge.

For inspiration I looked at the warp and weft of premium Japanese denim. I noticed how the reverse of the woven material held as much beauty as the face of the fabric. By using a Lino printing method on textured paper I realised that I could emulate the effect of the weave pattern .