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As Hethel Engineering's first artist in residence I will be exploring the relationship between my own video practice, Computer Aided Design and Rapid Prototyping to produce a series of new artefacts. Documentation of this new type of engineering/industrial space will take the form of drawings, diagrams and photographs. I will be keeping an Artist Newsletter blog, further details to follow. An exhibition of the residency outputs will be on show at the Hethel Centre from September 2010.
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I will be showing Between Counting a video work in this exhibition curated by Sue Prichard. The V&A will present its first ever exhibition of British quilts, with examples dating from 1700 to the present day - a unique opportunity to view the V&A's unseen quilt collection as well as key national loans. Recent examples will include works by leading artists such as Grayson Perry and Tracey Emin and commissions for the exhibition by a number of contemporary artists.
(Curators blog)

(1st March) looks at women as they undertake repetitive tasks of manual skill, dance and undertake classes in self-assertion. Artists: Breda Beban, Tracey Emin, Lucy Gunning, Nicola Naismith, Carey Young.
(8th March) explores the myriad roles played by the mother, the daughter, the lover, and the self. Artists: AK Dolven, Mona Hatoum, Liliane Lijn, Susana Mendes da Silva, Margaret Salmon, Denise Webber.

These works were not made with any political movement in mind, but could they have been made without the barriers being torn down by feminism? The programmes have been carefully selected to keep a balance between poetry, wit, tenderness and home truths. www.freewordonline.com

Selected group show of 12 graduates covering the last 20 years for NUCA's first Gallery retrospective of distinguished alumni of the University College.
www.nuca.ac.uk/news/215:alumnus-exhibition

This group exhibition explores aspects of memory, with my own investigations focused on digital memory and obsolete technologies. Other Lost and Found exhibition activities will also take place, please see the website for more details.
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The solo exhibition shows work based on investigations into the relationships between mass production and hand dexterities inspired by historical research into factories and production lines. en masse uses the everyday sewing needle in bulk as a vehicle by which to explore globalisation, trade and cross cultural skills. en masse was supported by Escalator Visual Arts, The National Lottery through Arts Council England, Commissions East, Norfolk County Council and the Sir Phillip Reckitt Educational Trust. This exhibition is supported by Hethel Engineering Centre. Visiting by appointment only.
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