The Rebellious Script
Now extended: The Rebellious Script, a show I put together with Geoff Titley for ArtLicks Weekend 2017. Runs until 7 October at A/Side B/Side Gallery in Hackney.
The show’s title, The Rebellious Script, is a term borrowed from Yuval Noah Harari’s 2011 book Sapiens describing the ‘partial script’ of maths and accountancy. Harari explains that while this incomplete script is unable to describe the full gamut of human interaction, it has nevertheless come to dominate our worldview.
Capricious cartography featured on British Council website
Here’s an interview with me about my macrame map which was installed in South London for the Deptford X Fringe.
Next week:
The Rebellious Script
Autumn Exhibitions
– Solo and duo presentations this month
– LORDSHIP included in group shows
I’m delighted to invite you to two exhibitions in London this Autumn:
The Cartographer Tries to Map her Way to Deptford | A site specific installation woven over a cafe courtyard on Deptford High Street
The Rebellious Script | A two-person show featuring photographic installation (Geoff Titley) and machine-cut sculpture (Amanda Lwin)
Kleptomania
I’m pleased to be showing one of my Stoke Newington glass houses less than a mile from their inspiration.
18 Edwards Lane, London N16 0UL
Private view 12th October.
Artist Consignment Note Template
A few weeks ago I was hunting around for a template for an artist consignment note. I couldn’t find one so I made my own. Here it is in case you need one as well. Continue reading “Artist Consignment Note Template”
Strong & Unstable
I’m spending June in Venice on a Fellowship with the British Council. I spend half the time looking after the British Pavilion as part of the Biennale and the other half doing my own research.
The artist showing this year at the British Pavilion is Phyllida Barlow. When I started, I wasn’t especially fond of her works so it’s been an interesting experience spending so much time in their company. More and more, I feel like they want to get up and start jumping and dancing around the space. So I made these gifs.
Her sculptural language works as a surprisingly potent metaphor for these uncertain, unreal times. See more gifs:
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Saltaire Mantel
“The hearth and the fireplace are as close as the contemporary secular Western dwelling comes to a shrine… the site of celebration and ritual” – Edwin Heathcote, The Meaning of Home
I enjoyed my weekend showing at Helena’s and Neil’s terraced house in the model town of Saltaire, Yorkshire as part of the Open Houses Arts Trail. Neil’s family was in the Merchant Navy and many of these trinkets are geniunely old. I thought they complemented the set-up quite nicely.
Platforms Projects 2017
If you’re in Athens next week I’ve got a couple of pieces at Platforms Projects Art Fair showing with Lubomirov Angus-Hughes.
ARTS CENTRE
121 CHARILAOU TRIKOUPI ST
114 73 ATHENS
20-25 May 2017
Open Contemporary Young Artist Award: Finalist
Pleased to say I’ve been shortlisted for the above award. The show is at the Biscuit Factory in Newcastle from 18 May – 20 August. And I now have my first ever Artsy listing.
? ? Summer shows ? ?
Our annual Open Studios this year is on Saturday 20 May – it would be great to see you there.
Bow Arts Rum Factory
Pennington Street, Wapping E1W 2BD – Map
12pm – 6pm
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Tumblr scrapbook #2
Often when I’m researching a new topic I make a tumblr scrapbook for images, bits of text, video, and other relevant ideas. Here’s the scrapbook for The Skyscraper Index, it’s quite good fun, if you’re into that sort of thing.
? THE SKYSCRAPER INDEX ?
• Architecture and irrationality: a new series
• Upcoming shows: come and visit
I’ve started a series of perforated metal sculptures called The Skyscraper Index.
These wall-hung panels are based on buildings that were once the tallest of their time. The series is based on a flippant idea formulated by economist Andrew Lawrence: “An era’s tallest building rises on the eve of economic downturn”. Continue reading “? THE SKYSCRAPER INDEX ?”
Will Self on skyscrapers
“A skyscraper is always a big swaying dick vaunting the ambitions of late capitalism to reduce the human individual to the status and the proportions of a submissive worker ant”