Collaborative Research Group is made up of:
Aine Belton, Dom Elsner, Louisa Love, Alex Parry, Trish Scott and Charley Vines. About the members:
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AINE BELTON originates from County Meath, Ireland. She has been living and working as an artist in Canterbury since September 2011. Áine has completed her M.A. in Fine Art in UCA Canterbury in 2012. She received her B.A. in Fine Art in the Visual Arts Pr
actice from I.A.D.T., (Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire) receiving a First Class Honours in 2009. Alongside her art and literary practice she is a curatorial intern for Crate Space in Margate where she is developing a research project that shall be the basis of her input to the Collaborative Research Group. Alongside visual art, she has a keen interest in creating music, zines, exhibition reviews, and collage poetry. She is a co-editor of ESC Zine, an independent arts and literary zine that has a growing international presence. Her works have recently featured in PhotoIreland Festival 2013, The European Media Arts Festival 2013 as well as in literary publications No-wave magazine, Oh Francis and Splinter magazine.
Áine’s medium experimentation includes drawing to video, sculpture, photography, audio, performance and installation art. Themes of time, humour, phenomenology, reality, technology, self-reliance and the human condition feature in Áine’s art practice. Within her installations she challenges the spectator to reconsider the impact of constructed realities that surround us on a day-to-day basis. Her work can often be absurd, surreal, violent aspiring to be visually poetic language that delineates from representation. www.ainebelton.wordpress.com
www.esczine.com
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DOMINIQUE ELSNER is a forty year old artist, born 1973. He has just graduated from the University of the Creative Arts (UCA) in Canterbury (2013), where he studied fine art. Dominique's main areas of interest lie within creating painting/sculpture conflicts that explore perceived notions of labour, or lack of. Before attending UCA, Dominique worked as an antique restorer for Carlton and John Hobbs of New York and London respectively, restoring antique wooden furniture for sale on an international market. Dominique's other interests include improvised sound/noise collisions and walking, though not at the same time. Dominique's practice attempts to explore interests and ideas that deal with manipulating viewer’s expectations, perceptual judgements and first impressions. He does this via producing made-readymade objects that ask questions that pertain to their manufacture, origin and labour. It is the often perceived notion that equates labour, in its various forms, with quantifying the merits of a work of art, that is currently stimulating explorations within Dom's practice. http://www.domelsner.co.uk/
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LOUISA LOVE is a contemporary artist currently based in East Kent. She graduated from University for the Creative Arts (Canterbury) with a BA in Fine Art in 2013 and is continuing to develop her practice through experimentation with both individual and collaborative methods of production, research and curation. She has featured in exhibitions and public art events at Whitstable Biennale, East Kent Cultural Conversations, CRATE, UCA, the Islington Arts Factory (London), Spinach (London) and Turner Contemporary (Margate), who shortlisted her for the Platform Graduate Award 2013. Louisa has a multilayered practice encompassing sculpture, installation, writing, archiving, research and performance. She is interested in the conflicted relationships between objects, materials, ideas and knowledges, and the ways in which their handling positions the practice of art-making as an inherently precarious yet poetic experience. Her work addresses a personal connection to the production process, often seeking to confront the tensions between the spaces of production and spaces of consumption. Louisa’s research investigates issues of material versus immaterial labour, exploring the constantly shifting values and meanings of these things alongside the constantly shifting role of the artist. http://www.louisalove.co.uk
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ALEX PARRY's work is primarily concerned with social relations and public space. She has won several commissions to produce work in the public realm, including Walthamstow Marsh where she installed a permanent communal dining table and The Treehouse Gallery project in Regents Park, which were two treehouses that hosted a free program of over fifty events and workshops for the public. Alexandra has exhibited at The Slade Research Centre, The Roundhouse Theatre, Amnesty International and Quay Arts. She received a BA in Social Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2008 and she is currently a part time student at the Barlett, UCL where she is studying for an MSc in Enviornment and Sustainable Development. My practice is focused on social relationships between humans and their connection to the material world, in particular the built environment. I work with the material world to create or situate objects that exemplify or exaggerate these relations. My work is often event-based and takes place in public spaces. My studies in social anthropology had a big impact on my work and encouraged me to question cultural norms. I believe that art can play an active and direct role in society and often my projects aim to facilitate positive social change. Currently I am interested in relationships between art and architecture, gentrification and exploring and researching through doing.
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TRISH SCOTT is based in Faversham, Kent, Trish has carried out projects and been awarded residencies in the UK, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Iceland, Estonia and the USA. Recent exhibitions include Tangency (Osnabruck, Germany, 2012), The Future is Social, (Flat Time House & Wimbledon Space, London, 2011). Stone Shoes (Space Station Sixty-Five London, 2010-11) and Ethnographic Terminalia (Du Mois Gallery, New Orleans, USA, 2010). Trish is currently doing a practice based PhD at Chelsea College of Art entitled Socialising the archive supported by a Rootstein Hopkins studentship. She has an MA in Fine Art from Camberwell College of Art and a BSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Trish's artistic practice is process oriented, performative and site/context responsive. She is interested in how knowledge is generated and transmitted and works in an investigative way to examine the relationship between everyday lived experience and institutional paradigms (and how these become naturalised). Trish has been experimenting with work that derives its content, structure and aesthetics from the systems she studies (often based on processes of absurd reasoning), and is interested in how embedded art practices can effect social change. http://www.trishscott.org
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CHARLEY VINES was born and raised in Kent, Charley Vines is currently based in Canterbury and Margate. She graduated in 2012 from UCA Canterbury with a BA in Fine Art, and has since been developing her practice at CRATE. She also works on the design team of a visual arts company in Faversham. Charley has curated and participated in several group shows within Kent, more recently ‘Light Breaks’ at the Horsebridge Centre in Whitstable and ‘Come As You Go’, at CRATE. She has collaborated with Dover Arts Development on public and education based projects, as well as delivering her own ‘Process over Outcome’ workshops to art students in schools. Charley is currently developing a series of group-led discussions and temporal events between artists working in Margate. Charley’s’ practice is formed around a concern for perspective and placement. She is interested in the changeability of things depending on where, when and how they are viewed. Currently her work arrives from the response to site-specific interactions between light and architectural forms. Although primarily a painter, she frequently works beyond the ‘picture plane’, and employs objects and materials to serve as a means of making an ‘image’ expand, using the installation site as it’s ‘frame’. Through the breakdown of medium specifity Charley aims to address questions concerning the place of painting in contemporary visual arts. www.charleyvines.com
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