Tweety Pie

 

Tweety Pie – this summer’s sound sculpture – has taken flight alone into the world, in the form of a travelog – work in progress… here is a preview.

Take Me To Your Leader – Again!

Manifesto

Alienated People of Earth, enter our Circle of Power: There is a crisis not limited to our shores, it is worldwide and universal. It is cultural, ethical, existential, personal, and political.

We Resist in Many Voices. We defend our Planet.

Whaaaa Whaaaa, drink your fill of the Bitter Cup of Rhetorical Over-indulgence, in our multi-sensory pressure chamber, and let our shamanic outpourings wash over you in a Sound Bath of Aggravated Resistance.

Feel your inner Furie and join your voices to ours … Do you Question our clarity of Vision? Are you with us or against us?

See the rest – a virtual show experience – at yourleaderlovesyou.com 

More photos of this exhibition at Portfolio page

 

Gestures

Gestures 3,4,5 - one of the videos made for LoAG
Lexicon of Artists' Gestures - Lea Torp Nielsen's project, April 2017.
See Board, on LoAG. 
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The stage is set for doodling around...

Studio play

Active things, playful gestures, interacting with my stuff,
thinking about the Lexicon, LoAG, 
Lea Torp Nielsen's online archive of artists' gestures.
January 2016

Exchange Place – Open Studios

How the studio installation, An Unimagined Utopia, 
took shape, October to November, 2016.
Exchange Place Studios, Sheffield, Yorshire Art Space.

From considered...


... to Bonkers


Now we're talking, Lea Torp Nielsen!  

Other shows 2015 to 2016

Sluice, London, October 2015

Visual Aids I and II  - also shown at bloc projects shop (left)

Bloc Assembly, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, January 2016

Eye hear U bend - Blinking eye video with orange and yellow mane and 
sphinx wheelie stand; craning suspended suction cup in pink, orange and
yellow.
 

Art Sheffield 2016

Take Me To Your Leader –

A group show as part of Art Sheffield Festival of contemporary art, 2016, curated by Martin Clark.  I was one of five artists in this show:

When living under Ming the Merciless, finding and defending your own 
planet is no joke.

Negotiating terms in your chosen language risks drastic 
misunderstandings, or slipping into the inept script.

It might mean resorting to the corny or ham-fisted line; or invite the 
alienation of confronting the unfamiliar.

Take me to your Leader subjects you to mild peril and disorientation 
as it plunders worlds within imagined worlds, mines the
astronomical in the everyday, and contemplates paradoxical
objects and post-apocalyptic calamity.



Made North Gallery, Persistence Works, May 2016.

 

My work in the exhibition was called Game On.

It consisted of two videos, painted mixed media and a savoy cabbage. 
This is the text I wrote for it:

" A games console to delight and frustrate the imagination - in making 
this work I have been thinking about retro sci-fi and computer games, 
war games - power games. The console is a site of creation and 
destruction, power and powerlessness. It can engage and distract. 

Standing at the controls, the decisions are ours - we have the freedom 
to imagine, to play, to take action. Faced with the objects and spaces 
in front of us, including those spaces that open up in the mind, 
you can be the pilot or the passenger. Or the Time Lord. 

But is that freedom as real as it feels? Have we been manipulated? 

Are we collaborators? Perhaps we are willing slaves. Perhaps we are 
aliens on someone else’s planet.

The low tech temporary structures, the tentative experimental things, 
the thoughts that range across form and surface, know that they don’t 
have long to get the message across. They do what they can. 
They resist, they open up, they give clues. 


Take your place at the controls.

Game On."

Way Out – degree show 2015

be the party

 

              

be the party – various media with video monitor

presented for degree show June 2015

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy…

A world of [colour] possibilities; materials and objects in the studio – May 2015 – waiting to play the next game…

Sounding Board

Sounding Board, in the group exhibition, Circumbendistuff, at Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University, January 2015.