2012- 2014

Venue: Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London
20 June-6 July 2014

'Dead Mother' is about living. It attempts to make visible a hidden absence. It is about women who are successfully living their lives, invisibly accommodating the continuing space of their mother’s death at a crucial period of their neurological development. No one asks about the nature of the absence and the effect it has. It remains hidden to all but those closest. 

While there is a substantial body of research concerned with acute presentations of childhood and young adult bereavement, little is known about the nature of the long-term effects of loss and its affective consequences on those who do not present with obvious serious psychiatric problems. 

'Dead Mother' is a series of pertinent film and photographic outcomes based upon women at different stages in their lives, looking at the long terms effects of a mother’s death in adolescence. 

Credits:
Artist: Anne Brodie
Producer: Elizabeth Newell
Collaborator: G.P Catriona Brodie
Scientific consultants:
Neuro-scientist Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
Neuro-psychologist Professor Martin Conway
Psychoanalyst Dr Michael Parsons
Ethics Advisor Professor Roger Higgs
Advisor: Dr Caterina Albano

Funders: Arts Council England, The Wellcome Trust
Project partner: Cruse Bereavement Care

The exhibition will tour to the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, Autumn 2014

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Dead Mother
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Review in Wall Street International

Images1-3:
Anne Brodie, 'Dead Mother', 2014

Images 4-5:
Installation Views of 'Dead Mother' at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, Anne Brodie, 2014 

2013 - ongoing

Myths, Rituals and Polemic Follies -
An Exhibition of British Art for China

Project in development

'Another World is Possible' is a new exhibition of contemporary British art curated specially for China. Presented in partnership with the British Council, it will provide audiences in China with the first opportunity to see major works by 12 significant artists working in Britain today as part of a thematic exhibition. 

Offering an insight into contemporary practice from the UK, and the opportunity for the shortlisted artists to exhibit for the first time in China, the exhibition will include an ancillary programme; talks, networking events, presentations, educational activities and will be accompanied by a catalogue with essays by leading art critics.

Exploring and showcasing creative visions of the now whilst addressing events from the past, present and imagined future, the exhibition will reflect on British society – its people, icons, myths, folklore, its cultural and political history. Embracing the journey-form of contemporary practice, a number of newly commissioned works produced specifically for the exhibition will further explore origins and identities working closely with Chinese collaborators.

Artists: Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin; Charles Avery; Emily Wardill; George Shaw; Haroon Mirza; Helen Marten; Jamie Shovlin; Jeremy Deller; Jeremy Hutchinson; Katie Paterson; Marcus Coates; Lindsay Seers

Credits:
Director/Curator: Keith Whittle
Co-Curator: David Thorp
Co-Curator: Claudia Albertini
Development Consultant: Elizabeth Newell
Sponsorship Consultant: Claire A Lewis Ltd
Project Partner: The British Council China
Education Partner: Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design 

Image: Jeremy Hutchinson, 'Erratum', 2012

2016-2019

Venue:

25 British beaches in partnership with leading coastal art venues

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31 March – 27 October 2019

First There is a Mountain is an inaugural participatory artwork by Katie Paterson. It invites the public to sculpt beaches into hundreds of mountains of sand to form micro-geologies, using specially created 'bucket and spade' sets which are scale models of famous mountains: Mount Kilimanjaro (Africa), Mount Shasta (USA), Mount Fuji (Asia), Stromboli (Europe) and Uluru (Oceania). These sets will be available to use on the day.

The artwork tours to twenty-five high-profile venues and their local sandy beaches over British Summer Time 2019, for a series of one-off events, creating a time-based topographical map orchestrated against a backdrop of tidal times. Twenty-five new texts responding to each coastal location have been produced by celebrated writers, which will be read aloud at the start of each event.

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First There is a Mountain connects diverse world mountains to the smallest grains of sand. It relates to deep time; holding the world's geography in your hands, and geology collapsing and connecting within your hands. Connecting the archipelago via one water, one tide, one sand; carrying mountains of sand across time.

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Credits:

Artist: Katie Paterson

Producer: Elizabeth Newell

Press: Alice Broughton 

Partner venues:

Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums and Creative Learning- Aberdeen City Council, An Lanntair, Artecology & Quay Arts at Hullabaloo, ATLAS Arts, Comar, Focal Point Gallery, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Grundy Art Gallery, MOSTYN, Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Scarborough Art Gallery, Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre, Tate St Ives, The Customs House, The Fruitmarket Gallery, The National Trust & The Atkinson, The National Trust & Berwick Visual Arts, The National Trust & CCA Derry-Londonderry, The National Trust at Studland Bay, The Pier Arts Centre, Tide and Time Museum, Turner Contemporary, Whitstable Biennale, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre.

Funders: Arts Council England, Creative Scotland

Images:

Courtesy of Katie Paterson Studio Ltd

2014-2015

Venue: Ambika P3, London & Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway, 2015

‘Latent Architecture’ provides a first opportunity to see major new works that offer a timely investigation into the social aspects of living environments manifested in both art & architectural contexts. Basing itself upon these 2 interlocking elements, it will adopt a cross disciplinary approach to creating works that lead to a socially engaged practice.

This important exhibition brings together 4 progressive/renowned practitioners (UK, Russia, Slovenia, Norway) to collectively critique our living environment & processes/relationships that influence this. Each artist's interdisciplinary practice has enabled them to develop heightened responses to a complexity of issues surrounding key questions of ‘how we build’, ‘how we build communities’, ‘how we use social spaces.'

The exhibition relevantly highlights the growing discourse surrounding the blurring of disciplines between art & architecture - what happens when the terms shift & dissolve; what the relationship is between art & architecture, questioning the conditions under which both are made. Creating a new kind of architecture & art.

Artists/Architects:
Alexander Brodksy, Sean Griffiths, Joar Nango, Apolonija Šušteršič

Credits:
Project Director/Curator: David Thorp
Co-curator: Sandie Macrae
Development Consultant: Elizabeth Newell

Images: 
Sean Griffiths, 'A House for Essex', (collaboration with Grayson Perry), 2012
Apolonija Šušterŝič. Garden Service (co-author Meike Schalk), 2007
Joar Nango, 'Nomads Won't Stand Still For Their Portraits' 2015, Photo credit: David Freeman
Sean Griffiths, 'Piece for 53 Door Frames and 10 Mirrors', 2015, Photo credit: David Freeman
Apolonija Šušteršič, 'Underground Discussion Club', 2015, Photo credit: David Freeman

Venue: Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, 2011-2015

“A tree marks time. This artwork will grow year by year, transform as the seasons change, reflecting the evolving nature of the Olympic Park. These trees embrace metal rings which have been engraved with a record of the site’s history, held in the branches for successive decades to come.”

A major public art commission consisting of ten semi-mature trees - each supporting a large bespoke metal ring within the canopy - have been planted to mark the ten entrances to the new 500 acre Olympic Park.

Each ring weighing up to 500kg (from either bronze or stainless steel) will slowly fuse together with the tree branches over time. The commission by renowned artists, Ackroyd & Harvey, will act as a permanent reminder of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 

Inscription for Northern Access Approach (Eton Manor) / Red Oak

Credits:
Artists: Ackroyd & Harvey
Management Team: Adriana Marques, London Legacy Development Corporation
Project Manager: Elizabeth Newell
Funders: Olympic Development Authority (ODA) and Arts Council England
Planning and Design: LDA Design
Engineers: Expedition Engineering 
Fabrication: Benson Sedgwick Engineering Ltd, Metal Improvement Company, Sign Industries, AB Fine Art Foundry 
Text design: Pentagram 
Tree Nursery: Hillier Nurseries
Tree Consultant: Derek Patch, Tree Advice Trust 
Tree Maintenance: Willerby Landscapes, The Landscape Group

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Art in the Park

Images: Courtesy of Pentagram

2012-2013

Venue:
The Rose Lipman Building in partnership with Create London
12 Sept-27 Oct 2013

'Anjin 1600: Edo Wonderpark' was a multi-room installation incorporating the second part in Blandy’s anime styled animation, ‘Anjin 1600’. The work is based upon a re-imagining of the story of William Adams (1564-1620), a sea navigator known as the first Englishman to set foot in Japan in 1600.

The exhibition formed a complex meditation on colonialism, cultural tourism and identity coinciding with Japan 400 – the 400th anniversary of Japan-British relations. 

The project formed part of Create London’s curated Talk Series, an education programme and was part of Frieze London VIP programme. 

Installation:
The ambitious installation incorporated a recreation of a Japanese garden with a tea house building and video projection; and a stage set of a Space Station.

Credits:
Artist: David Blandy
Commissioner: Create London
Co-producer: Elizabeth Newell
Curator: Keith Whittle under his commissioning agency Fountain

Funders: Arts Council England, The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and in association with The Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo Geidai and Japan 400.

Installations made in collaboration with Rhino Rock and AAS Group
Music: James A. Holland
Manga Illustration: Inko
Film Collaboration: Keiko Shirashi, a Japanese Graduate of the Tokyo Gedai School of Animation.

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Selected reviews:
Time Out London: This week's best new art exhibitions and an interview by Martin Coomer

Guardian: The week's art shows in pictures, Skye Sherwin & Robert Clark, September 13 2013

As a result of this exhibition, the installation was shown in a new installation at MOCA Shangahi, China as part of Animamix Biennale. It was also installed as part of an exhibition 'Interchange Junctions', at Howick Place, London.

Images: Screen shots & installation views, David Blandy, 'Anjin 1600: Edo Wonderpark', 2013

2013-2015

‘Breath’ is a multi sensory experience expressed in two forms:

A non-verbal theatrical documentary

A multi-media installation

Project in development. 

‘Breath' is an interactive multi-media installation using cutting edge technologies connecting the worlds of science, art, technology, environment. A 2.5m highly reactive globe rests in a controlled, darkened space. Audience proximity and behaviour affect its mood. Its temperature, light, colour, sound and vibration alter. Its ‘emotional states’ change. It communicates. 

‘Breath’ illustrates the dramas of human life through the metaphor of landscape, raises questions about our environments, evolution and perceptual understanding, prompting us to question our interaction with the world around us. 

It includes a strong education outreach element with leading academics developing supporting content for second-screen, web and satellite materials for schools. 

Credits:

Director: Philip Clemo
Producer: Rob Alexander/ Perfect Motion
Director of Photography: Robert Hollingworth
Technical: MRMC
Development Consultant: Elizabeth Newell
Design Consultant: Vicki Mortimer
Production Consultant: Alton Walpole 
Production Consultant: Joni Sighvatsson 
Academic Consultant: Sue Gollifer, Brighton University 
Academic Consultant: Dr Sarah Goldingay, Exeter University 
Academic Consultant: Professor Paul Dieppe, Exeter Medical School
Academic Consultant: Professor Michael Mangan, Loughborough University
Academic Consultant: Dr Miguel Farias, University of Oxford
Academic Consultant: Dr Alan Blackwell, University of Cambridge
Funders: Arts Council England, EU Media funding

2012-2014

Venue: Studio 1.1 London, 4-27 April 2014

‘Terrorism, capitalism, construction and destruction: the story of one building in the City, 1993-2013’

Spoil and Fill was an ambitious new moving image project and installation that revealed the dramatic story of 80 Bishopsgate, a building destroyed by an IRA bomb in 1993, rebuilt, and subsequently demolished in 2011.

A personal project for artist Amanda Loomes – who previously worked in the construction industry and was a site engineer on the re-building of 80 Bishopsgate before beginning her career as an artist – Spoil and Fill was also Loomes’ largest project to date.

Drawing from the artist’s archive of documentation on the building and historical footage of the city, a video was projected onto a wall built from 144 concrete test cubes in the gallery (at an aspect ratio of 16:9) which stood minutes from the location of the bombing.

In addition the installation comprised a pop-up book by artist Marenka Gabeler and texts from writer Charmian Griffin. These works were developed in collaboration with Loomes in response to investigations into ruins, facsimiles and decay. 

Credits:
Artist: Amanda Loomes
Collaborators: Marenka Gabeler, Charmian Griffin
Mentoring: Karen Mirza, no.w.here
Strategic Direction: Elizabeth Newell
Project Partners: New London Architecture NLA, Birkbeck College University of London.
Funders: Arts Council England

Read more:

Watch 'Multi-Story', Amanda Loomes, 2014
Running time 21' 43'', 16:9

Watch 'Spare', Amanda Loomes, 2014
Running time 1' looped, 16:9

Images: Amanda Loomes, 2014
'Bomb crater Bishopsgate'
‘Spoil and Fill installation at Studio 1.1’ 
'View of Bishopsgate demolition'
‘Pop-up book by Marenka Gabeler’
‘Supplementary Cube Test Results for a Single Cube by Charmian Griffin’

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Selected Review:
AN magazine, by Rebbeca Reid

2013-2016

‘Armageddon is a word that occurs once in the Bible in the Book of Revelation, 16:16 and is usually associated with an event – namely the future battle between the forces of good and evil that heralds the Second Coming of Christ. In general usage and the popular imagination it is a byword for the end of the world. 

Armageddon however is not in fact an event but rather it is a place. Now known as Tel Megiddo (Mount Megiddo) it lies in the Jezreeel Vallery, northern Israel, a UNESCO World Heritage site. 

A video work will feature a performance of a newly commissioned site specific piece of music, taking the aquifer at Tel Megiddo as a conditional element in the acoustic work.’

Artists: Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson
Development Consultant: Elizabeth Newell

Image: Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, 'Song for Armageddon', 2015

Strategic development for profiling funding opportunities and commercial avenues for international artists Ackroyd & Harvey.

Brokering relationships with leading British publishers of three dimensional
limited editions, The Multiple Store -  resulting in a 'sold out' new artist edition
'Shoal' launched at the Royal Society, London and previewed at MULTIPLIED 2011. 

Credits:

Artists: Ackroyd & Harvey

Development Consultant - Elizabeth Newell 

Commissioner - The Multiple Store

Images: Courtesy of Ackroyd & Harvey