Curriculum Vitae |
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Bruce Allan ( UK)
Mount Pleasant |
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I work with ideas to focus or make visible. I am concerned with the sensate which embraces lineal-subliminal exchange. An artwork comes alive when it has touched and entered the imagination. In my work I encourage the role of viewer as performer and acknowledge that without this engagement the work of art remains essentially blind. A central consideration is how we view the world, and how that view is informed and accessed through language. Installations and performance may be made in response to place, time and memory. Much of my work is site related and draws on the dynamics of places and spaces. Each place (site) is uniquely shaped by its location and the circumstances particular to its evolution. | |
A site can be noisy or quiet, chaotic or ordered. A site is a place to enter and engage with. A site may offer an opportunity for reflection. Artwork introduced into a site will be integral to the site itself. Successfully integrated artwork need not announce itself as such, but rather in a symbiotic way, seek to record and disclose facets of the site. The artwork may appear invisible. At such moments artwork and site are indivisible. | |
Influences | |
Poetry, Philosophy, Psychology, Environment/Ecology | |
Work experience | |
1975-84 Founder Member, Artspace Bristol and Bristol
Sculpture Shed > Spike Island Artspace since 1998
1993/4 Trustee Artspace Bristol Charity |
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working with a Primary School in
Gloucestershire |
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2003 Invited speaker, Fearann Fianaise Symposium, Cló Ceardlann na gCnoc,
Ireland 2004 Nominator, Pilot London, International Art Symposium, London 2004 Co-curator 4th International Biennale, Gyumri, Armenia 2004 Co-organiser Projektor artists' film and video, Kingsgate Gallery, London 2005 Participant, Partnership Development Seminar and Project Planning Meeting, Cló Ceardlann na gCnoc, Dublin |
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and Donegal, Ireland |
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2005 Participant, 2nd HweiLan International Artists Workshop, Taiwan 2005 Jury member, 2nd Film Festival Eberswalde, Germany 2005 UK co-curator with Louise Short, Art Caucasus, Tbilisi, Georgia |
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Qualifications and training | |
2004 Gloucestershire Digital Arts Forum, Stroud Valleys Artspace, Cinderford Artspace 2003 Digital Media Course, The Engine Room, Bridgwater, Somerset 1973 Diploma AD Sculpture, Bath Academy of Art, Corsham | |
Web links - gallery/work/projects |
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