2023

 
They Danced As One 2023-

42 minutes

Cinematography & Editor: Helena Öhman

Sound Design: Rob Bentall (to be produced)

In 2019 the surviving Tiller Girls, representing many different generations of dancers, met up for a reunion in Blackpool—a key home of the troupe. I went along with Helena Öhman, to record the event and talk to the women.

The footage of the event shows glamorous older women, posing, chatting, laughing, negotiating one another, reliving memories, and showing me how to link arms as a Tiller Girl.

Interposed text highlights speech, emphasising the insights and opinions that develop and challenge earlier video works. Black and white archival footage of filmed theatre performances depict Tiller Girl dances giving visual descriptions to pair with the stories.

2021

 
Still from Modernity / Power
Video, 12.50 mins
Made from appropriated backstage musical Hollywood films made between 1929 and 1940, Modernity / Power reframes latent power dynamics on the screen through text interventions and foley sound–clips, clicks, clapping, tap-dancing, and breathing. These disruptions draw attention to the labour of the bodies performing and their incredible skills.

Pose and Shadow, Alexandra Danilova
Watercolour on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)

2011

 
Scene 4 web
Gaga Charleston, 2011 
Video, 4 mins 7 secs

The final ‘letter’ I sent to Kerstin Honeit, as part of our video dialogue ‘Video Letters‘.  This later became Scene 4 of the ‘The Artist’, a collection of five videos dancing in my studio.

2010

 
Being & Becoming, 2010
Colour photograph, 30 cm x 40 cm
Assembling My Critical Tools & Trying Them Out, 2010
Performance Conference Paper, 11 minutes
Assembling My Critical Tools & Trying Them Out, 2010
Performance Conference Paper, 11 minutes
Assembling My Critical Tools & Trying Them Out, 2010
Performance Conference Paper, 11 minutes
Assembling My Critical Tools & Trying Them Out, 2010
Performance Conference Paper, 11 minutes
Assembling My Critical Tools & Trying Them Out, 2010
Performance Conference Paper, 11 minutes

2008

 

Art Encounters (2008) 

An audio piece.  I recount some formative art encounters, in order to think about what remains of the encounter.  The afterwards reflections; did these experiences form the artist I am now?  I presented this as part of the Mid-Residency group show at CalArts.

Wish You Were Here, Real Photographs, Mlle De Bremont (2008)
Series of nine photographs
B&W fibre-based photograph, edition of 5, 51cm x 60 cm
Edition of 15, 20 cm x 25 cm

Recreations of found cigarette cards from 1939, using myself.

Wish You Were Here, Real Photographs, Maria Gregor (2008)
Series of nine photographs
B&W fibre-based photograph, edition of 5, 51cm x 60 cm
Edition of 15, 20 cm x 25 cm
Wish You Were Here, Real Photographs, Maryse Grandt (2008)
Series of nine photographs
B&W fibre-based photograph, edition of 5, 51cm x 60 cm
Edition of 15, 20 cm x 25 cm
Wish You Were Here, Real Photographs, Jacqueline Ford (2008)
Series of nine photographs
B&W fibre-based photograph, edition of 5, 51cm x 60 cm
Edition of 15, 20 cm x 25 cm
Wish You Were Here, Real Photographs, Iya (2008)
Series of nine photographs
B&W fibre-based photograph, edition of 5, 51cm x 60 cm
Edition of 15, 20 cm x 25 cm
Wish You Were Here, Real Photographs, Ginette Vrala (2008)
Series of nine photographs
B&W fibre-based photograph, edition of 5, 51cm x 60 cm
Edition of 15, 20 cm x 25 cm
Wish You Were Here, Real Photographs, Getty Jasonne (2008)
Series of nine photographs
B&W fibre-based photograph, edition of 5, 51cm x 60 cm
Edition of 15, 20 cm x 25 cm
Wish You Were Here, Real Photographs, Erni Erika (2008)
Series of nine photographs
B&W fibre-based photograph, edition of 5, 51cm x 60 cm
Edition of 15, 20 cm x 25 cm
Wish You Were Here, Real Photographs, Catherine Hamilton (2008)
Series of nine photographs
B&W fibre-based photograph, edition of 5, 51cm x 60 cm
Edition of 15, 20 cm x 25 cm


One afternoon in 2005, I came across a tin full of cigarette cards at a flea market. I leafed through to look more closely at the miniature pin-ups. I noticed the backs of the cards with the dated biographies of the girls on the cards. I selected all the dancers from the tin (there were actresses, models, swimmers and tennis players I rejected, no one in the tin I had heard of before) and bought all of them. As I walked home, I decided to recreate all the photographs using myself as the model. The original cigarette cards were objects to be held, looked at closely. They were private cards to view, collect and exchange. As enclosures in cigarette packs in the late 1930s, it was presumed that these were gifts for a male consumer. Looking at them with contemporary eyes, they look glamorous, innocent, staged and seductive.

2006

 
Me Against The Music, 2006
Performance, 8 mins
Just For Fun, an evening of karaoke and performance organised by Robin Close, Scott Webster and Alexis Gotts
Me Against The Music, 2006
Performance, 8 mins
Just For Fun, an evening of karaoke and performance organised by Robin Close, Scott Webster and Alexis Gotts
Me Against The Music, 2006
Performance, 8 mins
Just For Fun, an evening of karaoke and performance organised by Robin Close, Scott Webster and Alexis Gotts
Me Against The Music, 2006
Performance, 8 mins
Just For Fun, an evening of karaoke and performance organised by Robin Close, Scott Webster and Alexis Gotts
Me Against The Music, 2006
Performance, 8 mins
Just For Fun, an evening of karaoke and performance organised by Robin Close, Scott Webster and Alexis Gotts
Me Against The Music, 2006
Performance, 8 mins
Just For Fun, an evening of karaoke and performance organised by Robin Close, Scott Webster and Alexis Gotts

Allie Carr loves dancing.  She dances about everyday.  If she couldn’t dance she would be depressed.  Allie Carr will dance in public tonight as if she was dancing around her house or at nightclubs.  She is going to attempt to dance to a mix tape of unknown tunes put together for her by Alexis Gotts.  She might not be able to do it.  She might freeze.  The music might not excite her.  She may be rendered static.  (I doubt it.) Her friend and long time collaborator Matt Lewis will be on hand to adjudicate.  Using his wholly untrained eye, he will officiate whether the music has beaten Allie or if Allie has beaten the music.

2018

 
Felicity Means Happiness, 2018
Video, 16 mins

The story of a 98-year old former chorus girl. In the thirties, Felicity was a Bluebell Young Lady. She toured France, Germany, and Italy until WW2 was declared in Italy. Felicity Means Happiness shows Felicity, telling her stories, and Carr showing Felicity her artworks inspired by 1930s dancers, and footage of an Austrian film Felicity was in. What is conveyed is the connection between the two women as well as the realities of dancing and living independently in the thirties.
Bauhaus Bühnenchor, 2018
Performance, 35 mins
Construction House, S1 Artspace

Choreography by Lucy Haighton
Scarf design by Katy Aston / Fison Zair
Performers: Celia Anderson, Julia Bisby, Jo Dunkly, Liz Searle, Emily Stokes, and Roanna Wells.

Bauhaus Bühnenchor is a live performance that experiments with the girl troupe kickline. Using the kickline as a form with the potential to represent women’s collective and creative force Bauhaus Bühnenchor imagines the experiences of Weimarian female art students and chorus girls as well considering the context of dancing in a troupe today. 

2014

 
Theatre Flats, 2014
Blueback paper photographs mounted onto MDF, freestanding in space
Dimensions approx 2 m x 1 m
Tap Performance-7292 72
Tap Performance for Gallery with Many Dancers, 2014 
Performance 4 mins
Three Act Structures, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
Hollywood Forever, 2014
Video, 3 mins
The Mucky Bits, 2014
Online gallery of photographs taken of book pages

My contribution to Sharon Kivland’s Library Interventions at Leeds College of Art.  I rifled through books searching only the racy and erotic pictures and photographing them–always with Sharon’s titillation in mind.
Ginette Vrala / Socialist Red / Neoliberal Pink, 2014
Half-tone screenprint on Keykolour Original Snow White 300gsm paper,
35cm x 50cm, framed dimensions 49cm x 64cm
Edition of 50
Help Me Pose, 2014
One-to-one performance, 4 mins
Wrought, Sheffield  

2013

 
Scene 3, 2013
Video, 3 mins 50 secs

2009

 
Woman As Image Single Channel Edit, 2009
Originally presented as a two-channel durational installation for my CalArts thesis show, re-edited for theatre viewing.
We Cross Sometimes, 2009 

Living on a ranch in the small working-class town of Santa Paula in California, I filmed psychics visiting the ranch to find the hidden stories.

Jan 052019
 

Here are some photographs from the exhibition I recently put together, based around my book, Viewing Pleasure and Being A Showgirl, How Do I Look? Thanks to the artists who took part: Sophie Lisa Beresford, Julie Cook, Nwando Ebizie as Lady Vendredi, Alice Finch, Laura Gonzalez, Lucy Halstead, Sharon Kivland, Britten Leigh, Chloe Nightingale, and Isabella Streffen. 

Sep 202018
 

I had so much fun showing my work at Abingdon Studios in Blackpool. Here’s the documentation. I am so grateful to show my new video work Felicity Means Happiness for the first time in Blackpool.

Photo Matt Wilkinson, Abingdon Studios Project Space
Photo Matt Wilkinson, Abingdon Studios Project Space
Photo Matt Wilkinson, Abingdon Studios Project Space
Photo Matt Wilkinson, Abingdon Studios Project Space
Photo Matt Wilkinson, Abingdon Studios Project Space
Photo Matt Wilkinson, Abingdon Studios Project Space
Photo Matt Wilkinson, Abingdon Studios Project Space
Jan 162018
 

A chapter I have written on the representation of strippers in the media and contemporary art has been published. It is in the Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality by Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood and Brian McNair.

In it, I write about pop videos, films, popular feminist critical perspectives, academic writing, and activism. I also write about artworks including the Girlie Show by Edward Hopper, Lucky 13 by Philip-Lorca Di Corca, The Politics of Rehearsal by Francis Alys, Abstraction Licking by Christina Lucas, Cosey Fanni Tutti’s collages, Strip by Jemima Stehli, performance pieces Strike a Pose by Kate Spence, and Sister by Rosana and Amy Cade.

 

 

Shop

 

Postage is normally free within the UK. Please contact me for shipping costs overseas and larger, framed items, at ajc@alisonjcarr.net or alliejcarr@gmail.com

Other pieces are available direct from my studio–come visit me! I’m at Exchange Place, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S2 5TR. A nearly comprehensive price list is available here.

 

The Night

Written in the aftermath of the murder of Sarah Everard, this uplifting novella explores the fraught journey from sexual visibility but lack of agency, through to self-possession and refusal to fear the night. Divided into three ‘selves’ (The Girl, The Showgirl, and The Goddess), the text draws on formative experiences, dreams, and rebellious decisions, and is illustrated with new artwork.

(Content warning: themes of rape/sexual violence)

£10 without post / collect direct from studio

       

£10 plus £3 postage within UK 

      

£10 plus £5 for postage to the USA and Europe

         

Ascending A Staircase 

As part of the ‘Artist’s Pledge’, you can purchase all four of the theatre prints below for £200, please get in touch with me. If you are interested in the other theatre photographs (see here) get in touch also. 

All theatre photographs are also available in a larger print edition, 84 cm x 84 cm, edition of 5. The starting price for each edition is £600 unframed.

An ongoing series of theatre interior photographs. 34 cm x 34 cm, giclee archival prints, Innova smooth cotton high white paper, 100% cotton.

Ascending A Staircase, City Varieties, Leeds, 1865

Edition of 15

Unframed £60 

Postage free


 

 

Ascending A Staircase, Penistone Paramount, Penistone, 1914

Edition of 15

Unframed £60 

Postage free


 

 

Ascending A Staircase, Darlington Hippodrome, Darlington, 1907

Edition of 15

Unframed £60 

Postage free

                      

Ascending A Staircase, Lyceum, Sheffield, 1897

Edition of 15

Unframed £60 

Postage free


 

 


 

A Place To Perform (Because Other Places Were Inhospitable)

Digital print, 260gsm paper, A3 (420 mm x 297 mm) Edition of 14.

Unframed £30 

Postage free


 

 

The Many

Digital print, 260gsm paper, A3 (420 mm x 297 mm) Edition of 30.

Unframed £30 

Postage free



 

 


 

I Saved You From Obscurity, Others Are Not So Lucky 

Multiple of 100 boxes, A5 size, 1cm deep, individually numbered and signed.  Each contains a hand dark-room printed black & white silver gelatin photograph produced from a selection of found negatives bought in a flea market in Paris.

 

 

 

Three people outside church

£50
Sale £25
Postage free



 

Ladies leaning over gate

£50
Sale £25
Postage free



 

Beach tall lady

£50
Sale £25
Postage free




 

Beach scene

£50
Sale £25
Postage free



 

Interior with mirror

£50
Sale £25
Postage free



 

Interior with drawers

£50
Sale £25
Postage free




 

Wish You Were Here, Real Photographs (2008)

Hand-printed black & white silver gelatin prints.  Recreations of original 1939 cigarette cards.  A copy of the reverse of the original card comes with each print.


Mlle. de Bremont

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




Ginette Vrala

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 


Iya

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

Jacqueline Ford

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

 Maria Gregor

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

Erni Erika

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

Maryse Grandt

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

Getty Jasonne

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

 

 

Les Girls Portfolio: Ginette Vrala, Jacqueline Ford, Iya, Maria Gregor, Catherine Hamilton, Maryse Grandt

14 ½” x 12 ¼” edition of 6                                       

All six £350

 

 

 

 

Mlle. de Bremont

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

Postage is normally free within the UK. Please contact me for shipping costs overseas and larger, framed items, at ajc@alisonjcarr.net or alliejcarr@gmail.com

Other pieces are available direct from my studio–come visit me! I’m at Exchange Place, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S2 5TR. A nearly comprehensive price list is available here.




 

Joy Development Mentoring Sessions

Articulate / Artist Statement

Perfect your artists statement over 3 x 20 mins sessions, £150

 

The Night

Written in the aftermath of the murder of Sarah Everard, this uplifting novella explores the fraught journey from sexual visibility but lack of agency, through to self-possession and refusal to fear the night. Divided into three ‘selves’ (The Girl, The Showgirl, and The Goddess), the text draws on formative experiences, dreams, and rebellious decisions, and is illustrated with new artwork.

(Content warning: themes of rape/sexual violence)

£10 without post / collect direct from studio

       

£10 plus £3 postage within UK 

      

£10 plus £5 for postage to the USA and Europe

         

Ascending A Staircase 

As part of the ‘Artist’s Pledge’, you can purchase all four of the theatre prints below for £200, please get in touch with me. If you are interested in the other theatre photographs (see here) get in touch also. 

All theatre photographs are also available in a larger print edition, 84 cm x 84 cm, edition of 5. The starting price for each edition is £600 unframed.

An ongoing series of theatre interior photographs. 34 cm x 34 cm, giclee archival prints, Innova smooth cotton high white paper, 100% cotton.

Ascending A Staircase, City Varieties, Leeds, 1865

Edition of 15

Unframed £60 

Postage free


 

 

Ascending A Staircase, Penistone Paramount, Penistone, 1914

Edition of 15

Unframed £60 

Postage free


 

 

Ascending A Staircase, Darlington Hippodrome, Darlington, 1907

Edition of 15

Unframed £60 

Postage free

                      

Ascending A Staircase, Lyceum, Sheffield, 1897

Edition of 15

Unframed £60 

Postage free


 

 


 

A Place To Perform (Because Other Places Were Inhospitable)

Digital print, 260gsm paper, A3 (420 mm x 297 mm) Edition of 14.

Unframed £30 

Postage free


 

 

The Many

Digital print, 260gsm paper, A3 (420 mm x 297 mm) Edition of 30.

Unframed £30 

Postage free



 

 


 

I Saved You From Obscurity, Others Are Not So Lucky 

Multiple of 100 boxes, A5 size, 1cm deep, individually numbered and signed.  Each contains a hand dark-room printed black & white silver gelatin photograph produced from a selection of found negatives bought in a flea market in Paris.

 

 

 

Three people outside church

£50
Sale £25
Postage free



 

Ladies leaning over gate

£50
Sale £25
Postage free



 

Beach tall lady

£50
Sale £25
Postage free




 

Beach scene

£50
Sale £25
Postage free



 

Interior with mirror

£50
Sale £25
Postage free



 

Interior with drawers

£50
Sale £25
Postage free




 

Wish You Were Here, Real Photographs (2008)

Hand-printed black & white silver gelatin prints.  Recreations of original 1939 cigarette cards.  A copy of the reverse of the original card comes with each print.


Mlle. de Bremont

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

Ginette Vrala

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

 

Iya

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

 

Jacqueline Ford

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

 

 Maria Gregor

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

 

Erni Erika

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

 

Maryse Grandt

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

 

Getty Jasonne

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

 

 

 

Les Girls Portfolio: Ginette Vrala, Jacqueline Ford, Iya, Maria Gregor, Catherine Hamilton, Maryse Grandt

14 ½” x 12 ¼” edition of 6                                       

All six £350

 

 

 

 

Mlle. de Bremont

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ginette Vrala

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £800

Unframed £650

Postage is normally free within the UK. Please contact me for shipping costs overseas and larger, framed items, at ajc@alisonjcarr.net or alliejcarr@gmail.com

Other pieces are available direct from my studio–come visit me! I’m at Exchange Place, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S2 5TR. A nearly comprehensive price list is available here.




 

Joy Development Mentoring Sessions

Articulate / Artist Statement

Perfect your artists statement over 3 x 20 mins sessions, £150

 

The Night

Written in the aftermath of the murder of Sarah Everard, this uplifting novella explores the fraught journey from sexual visibility but lack of agency, through to self-possession and refusal to fear the night. Divided into three ‘selves’ (The Girl, The Showgirl, and The Goddess), the text draws on formative experiences, dreams, and rebellious decisions, and is illustrated with new artwork.

(Content warning: themes of rape/sexual violence)

£10 without post / collect direct from studio

       

£10 plus £3 postage within UK 

      

£10 plus £5 for postage to the USA and Europe

         

Ascending A Staircase 

As part of the ‘Artist’s Pledge’, you can purchase all four of the theatre prints below for £200, please get in touch with me. If you are interested in the other theatre photographs (see here) get in touch also. 

All theatre photographs are also available in a larger print edition, 84 cm x 84 cm, edition of 5. The starting price for each edition is £600 unframed.

An ongoing series of theatre interior photographs. 34 cm x 34 cm, giclee archival prints, Innova smooth cotton high white paper, 100% cotton.

Ascending A Staircase, City Varieties, Leeds, 1865

Edition of 15

Unframed £60 

Postage free


 

 

Ascending A Staircase, Penistone Paramount, Penistone, 1914

Edition of 15

Unframed £60 

Postage free


 

 

Ascending A Staircase, Darlington Hippodrome, Darlington, 1907

Edition of 15

Unframed £60 

Postage free

                      

Ascending A Staircase, Lyceum, Sheffield, 1897

Edition of 15

Unframed £60 

Postage free


 

 


 

A Place To Perform (Because Other Places Were Inhospitable)

Digital print, 260gsm paper, A3 (420 mm x 297 mm) Edition of 14.

Unframed £30 

Postage free


 

 

The Many

Digital print, 260gsm paper, A3 (420 mm x 297 mm) Edition of 30.

Unframed £30 

Postage free



 

 


 

I Saved You From Obscurity, Others Are Not So Lucky 

Multiple of 100 boxes, A5 size, 1cm deep, individually numbered and signed.  Each contains a hand dark-room printed black & white silver gelatin photograph produced from a selection of found negatives bought in a flea market in Paris.

 

 

 

Three people outside church

£50
Sale £25
Postage free



 

Ladies leaning over gate

£50
Sale £25
Postage free



 

Beach tall lady

£50
Sale £25
Postage free




 

Beach scene

£50
Sale £25
Postage free



 

Interior with mirror

£50
Sale £25
Postage free



 

Interior with drawers

£50
Sale £25
Postage free




 

Wish You Were Here, Real Photographs (2008)

Hand-printed black & white silver gelatin prints.  Recreations of original 1939 cigarette cards.  A copy of the reverse of the original card comes with each print.


Mlle. de Bremont

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

Ginette Vrala

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

 

Iya

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

 

Jacqueline Ford

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

 

 Maria Gregor

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

 

Erni Erika

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

 

Maryse Grandt

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

 

Getty Jasonne

8” x 10” edition of 15 

Unframed £80

Postage free




 

 

 

 

Les Girls Portfolio: Ginette Vrala, Jacqueline Ford, Iya, Maria Gregor, Catherine Hamilton, Maryse Grandt

14 ½” x 12 ¼” edition of 6                                       

All six £350

 

 

 

 

Mlle. de Bremont

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ginette Vrala

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Iya

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jacqueline Ford

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maria Gregor

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Erni Erika

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maryse Grandt

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Catherine Hamilton

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Getty Jasonne

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Iya

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jacqueline Ford

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maria Gregor

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Erni Erika

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maryse Grandt

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Catherine Hamilton

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Getty Jasonne

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ginette Vrala

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Iya

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jacqueline Ford

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maria Gregor

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Erni Erika

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maryse Grandt

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

Catherine Hamilton

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Getty Jasonne

20” x 24” (51cm x 61cm) edition of 5                          

Framed £850

Unframed £700

 

Aug 072014
 

Last night the exhibition London Life opened at Art Bermondsey/LA Noble Gallery.  Two of my cigarette card recreations are in the show, and I was third prize winner for the work.  (Thanks to Katherine Angel and Kate Enters for the photos!).

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Jul 182014
 

My work will be in Act II and Act III of S1 Member’s Show, Three Act Structure at S1 Artspace, Sheffield.  Act II is open 6th August–23rd August and Act III which is a re-mix of Acts I and II featuring all of the works is open 27th August–13th September.  The opening of the whole show was on 11th July, and now there is a programme of events that will take place during the subsequent Acts.

In particular there will be a publication and print portfolio launch on Friday 15th August and a screening and performance event on Saturday 6th September.  For the latter I am working on a new performance.

I’ll post more about the up-coming events–it’s a very exciting project to be involved in!

May 012014
 

I instigated a video show collaboratively curated with Megan Cotts, Alexis Hudgins, Ali Prosch & Brica Wilcox shown at SIA Gallery in May.  The show featured ten video works by Alison J Carr, Alexis Hudgins, Ivan Iannoli, Julie Orser & Jon Irving, Ali Prosch, Elleni Sclaventis, Matt Siegle, amy von harrington, Brica Wilcox, that respond to the provocation of Hollywood Forever: the dream, the film industry, the cemetery on Santa Monica Boulevard.  Each takes a different approach to Hollywood—from considering the myth, the geography, the surplus of images it gives us, the imperative to perform, the seduction and the make-believe.

More information about the project Hollywood Forever Bios.

image credit Julie Orser & Jon Irving, from The Viewer

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Feb 182014
 

I’ve put together a selection of videos to be screened at S1 Artspace, Thu 20 Feb, 6 – 8pm:

Alison J Carr | Lindsay Foster | Alexis Hudgins | Stephanie Owens | Isabella Streffen | Katy Woods

S1 Artspace is pleased to present You Me You Me You Me, a screening of six short video works which will be followed by a discussion between artists Alison J Carr and Lindsay Foster.

In this screening, S1 Studio Holder, Alison J Carr, selected Lindsay Foster’s The Last Frontier as a starting point alongside which she presents four additional works: Notes on You and Me by Alexis Hudgins, The Pulse of Madame K by Isabella Streffen, Nadia by Katy Woods, and her own A Response to Unmastered by Katherine Angel; inviting Foster to select a final piece to sit alongside her own: Making A Past Present by Stephanie Owens.

The videos take different approaches to reflect on personal experiences and collective memories, on images and language and how we find ourselves formed through our encounters with culture. Across the selection are witty, playful observations as well as sincere enquiries. What is it to be a person?

 

Alexis Hudgins, Notes on You and Me, 2010
Alexis Hudgins, Notes on You & Me, 2010

2007

 
Ladies-leaning-over-gate
I Saved You From Obscurity, Others Are Not So Lucky (2007)
Box 20 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm, photograph 17.5 cm x 12 cm
Card, satin, B&W photograph

A multiple of one of six different fibre-based, hand-printed photographs presented in a red-satin lined box. The photographs are made from negatives found in a Parisian flea market. A central portion of each photograph has been removed with a scalpel.
Interior-with-mirror
I Saved You From Obscurity, Others Are Not So Lucky (2007)
Box 20 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm, photograph 17.5 cm x 12 cm
Card, satin, B&W photograph
Interior-with-drawers
I Saved You From Obscurity, Others Are Not So Lucky (2007)
Box 20 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm, photograph 17.5 cm x 12 cm
Card, satin, B&W photograph
Beach-tall-lady
I Saved You From Obscurity, Others Are Not So Lucky (2007)
Box 20 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm, photograph 17.5 cm x 12 cm
Card, satin, B&W photograph
Beach-short-lady
I Saved You From Obscurity, Others Are Not So Lucky (2007)
Box 20 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm, photograph 17.5 cm x 12 cm
Card, satin, B&W photograph
3-people-outside-church
I Saved You From Obscurity, Others Are Not So Lucky (2007)
Box 20 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm, photograph 17.5 cm x 12 cm
Card, satin, B&W photograph
Shut-box
I Saved You From Obscurity, Others Are Not So Lucky (2007)
Box 20 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm, photograph 17.5 cm x 12 cm
Card, satin, B&W photograph
Spines

I saved you from obscurity, others are not so lucky

A found negative is a mystery–has the photograph ever been printed?  If so, how big was the photograph, how did it look, were they dearly loved images carried around, prints forgotten at the back of a drawer or large framed photographs?

This piece of work explores the mystery by presenting photographs from negatives found in a flea market in Paris, in a box fit for jewellery, but with a portion of the centre of the image carefully removed with a scalpel.  The benevolent gesture of saving these images is conditional.

The hole has other meanings too.  By taking out a crucial part of the centre of the photographs, even less is known.  The story is unfinished.  The hole gives the viewer licence to complete the picture themselves.  The photograph is whatever you want it to be.

This piece of work is a multiple and I have produced 100 numbered boxes with one of the six photographs in each.