Artists
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Gill Clarke
A Dance of Ownership, A Song in Hand
Gill Clarke is an independent dance artist. She was founder member of Siobhan Davies Dance Company and has performed extensively with Janet Smith and Rosemary Butcher, amongst other choreographers. She performed a score by Simone Forti during the Experiment Marathon at Serpentine Gallery, and in Clare Twomey's Is it madness? Is it beauty? as part of Siobhan Davies' ROTOR.
She has made a movement installation at Tate St Ives, a four screen video work with Becky Edmunds and Scott Smith, is currently directing a trans-disciplinary Lab programme - Movement and Meaning - with PAL, and co-directs Independent Dance, resident at Siobhan Davies Studios, which creates a hub of learning for dance artists.
Marcus Coates
A Question of Movement
Marcus Coates is a visual artist, working in video, photography and performance. Coates' practice questions how we perceive humanness through imagined non-human realities. An extensive knowledge and understanding of British wildlife has led him to create unique interpretations of the natural world and its evolving relationship with society.
An aspect of Coates' recent work sees him as a 'useful social agent' or problem solver. Using his skills and position in society as an artist and his knowledge of British wildlife he seeks resolutions to social issues for clients. Through self designed rituals informed by traditional cultures he consults a non conscious world of animals and birds to seek relevant information. He has performed 'consultations' with a variety of clients: Ikebukuru Council, Tokyo, Japan; The Mayor of Holon, Israel; A Residents Housing Association in Liverpool, UK; City Council of Stavanger in Norway. Their problems range from illegal cycle parking, prostitution and the Israeli/Palestinian crisis.
Coates' videos, performances and installations have been shown internationally. Recent exhibitions include: Lisson Presents 2, Lisson Gallery, London, 2008; Manifesta7, Trento, Italy, 2008; Kunsthalle Zurich 2009; Tomio Koyama Gallery 2009 Tokyo; Altermodern, Tate Triennial, London, 2009; Psychopomp, Milton Keynes Gallery, 2010; Sydney Biennial 2010 The Trip, Serpentine Gallery, London, 2011;
Coates received the Paul Hamlyn Visual Arts Award 2008 and the Diawa Foundation Art Prize 2009. He was the Calouste Gulbenkian Artist in Residence in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, 2008. Coates lives and works in London.
Siobhan Davies
Siobhan Davies created her first piece Relay in 1972 and founded her first company in 1980 which was soon amalgamated into Second Stride. In 1988 she formed Siobhan Davies Dance Company and toured nationally and internationally. She has made over 40 works for this and other companies including London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Artangel, The Royal Ballet and Rambert where she was Associate Choreographer for four years. Her work has won numerous awards including four Digital Dance Awards, the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance (1993 and 1996) and a South Bank Show Award. Much of her work has also been filmed for television and she was named a CBE in 2002.
Since 2000 Davies has moved away from the traditional perspectives of the theatre so that her work could be seen in circumstances that particularly suited it, where the audience is able to observe the work in close proximity. Plants and Ghosts (2002) and Bird Song (2004) were made for non-proscenium stages, and In Plain Clothes (2006), was made for her new studio. In The Collection (2009) at Victoria Miro Gallery, Davies became part choreographer part curator, presenting dance as one 'exhibit' within a visual arts setting. For ROTOR (2010), which was presented at Siobhan Davies Studios, the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, and Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, she commissioned nine artists to respond to a new choreographed dance using their own artform.
Henry Montes
A Question of Movement
LandMark
Henry Montes is a freelance dance maker, performer and teacher. He presently dances with Company Susanne Linke in Berlin. He has worked with Tanztheater Reinhild Hoffmann and in NYC with Keely Garfield, Jonathon Appels, Amy Greenfield and KJ Holmes. Resident in the UK since 1991, he has performed with Jonathan Burrows, Charles Linehan, Rosemary Butcher, Kirstie Simson and Joan Davis. He was a member of Siobhan Davies Dance from 1998- 2009 and was awarded the 2003 Critics' Circle National Dance Award for Outstanding Male Artist. His most recent work was performing in the early work of Trisha Brown for Pioneers of the Downtown Scene at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. His most recent film Out Look can be seen online.
Tracey Rowledge
What Isn't Here Hasn't Happened
Tracey Rowledge studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London, and Fine Bookbinding and Conservation at Guildford College of Further and Higher Education. Her practice combines elements of both fine and applied art. She uses the processes and skills of bookbinding to explore mark-making, creating images that evoke movement made by the distinctly non-gestural process of, for example, gold tooling on leather. Her work has been shown internationally and is held in various private and public collections.
Tracey is a partner in Benchmark Bindery, established in 2009 with Kathy Abbott, to produce high quality and intelligent bookbinding work. She is a founding member of Tomorrow's Past, an international bookbinding collective, and a founding member of the independent artists' group 60|40, which was formed in 2008 with the ceramicist Clare Twomey and the silversmith David Clarke, to expand the environment and opportunities for the applied arts.
Deborah Saxon
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Deborah Saxon started her career as a dancer and choreographer in Australia before moving to the UK in 1990. In 1991 she joined Siobhan Davies Dance and has performed in over 20 works for the company, touring internationally. During this time she has also worked with UK dance artists Mark Baldwin, Jeremy James, Wendy Houston and Henry Montes with whom she has created two duets Uncouple and The Humming Solos and more recently worked together as part of Siobhan Davies Dance work The Collection. Deborah is a freelance teacher, leading classes and workshops for companies, universities and professionals throughout Europe, America and Australia.
Bruce Sharp
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Bruce Sharp was born in Yorkshire, brought up in Edinburgh and now lives and works in London where he divides his time between his art practice and looking after his daughter, Greta.
Bruce studied Fine Art at Middlesex University and holds an MA (Distinction) in Drawing from Camberwell College of Art. He has often worked with dancers and other artists to create multi disciplinary performances and installations within the various contexts of theatre, gallery spaces and site-specific projects. These experiences, together with his individual practice within a range of media inform his current approach to drawing as a performative act.
More about Bruce at Axis Web and Daisyworld.
Lucy Skaer
A Dance of Ownership, A Song in Hand
Lucy Skaer was born in Cambridge in 1975. She completed her BA at the Glasgow School of Art. From '97 Skaer co founded the collaborative group Henry VIII's Wives, and also worked at Transmission Gallery in Glasgow, where she had her first solo show in 2000. In 2003 Skaer was short-listed for the art prize Beck's Futures and exhibited at the first Scottish presentation at the Venice Biennale, where she also presented in 2007. Skaer's solo presentations include a mid career retrospective at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, The Siege at Chisenhale Gallery, London (both 2008), and a major show at Kunsthalle Basel 2009, for which she was nominated for the Turner Prize. Since 2005, Skaer has also worked in collaboration as Nashashibi / Skaer.
Sarah Warsop
What Isn't Here Hasn't Happened
Sarah Warsop's practice spans dance, contemporary jewellery and visual art. She explores the rhythmic and dynamic character of movement through choreography and mark making, bridging performance, time based media and objects.
She has danced, choreographed and toured internationally with Rambert Dance Company, Siobhan Davies Dance and her own company, Snag. Her jewellery work has been supported by Arts Council England and the National Lottery and is in public and private collections. Her film collaboration Lying in Wait (2009) was exhibited at Victoria Miro and Ikon gallery, Birmingham, as part of Siobhan Davies Dance's The Collection.
Sarah gained a Dance BA from the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, and an MA Design (Jewellery) from Central Saint Martins.