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Bury Open 2023 ends 3rd February 2024
I had 2 artworks selected for the Bury Art Museum’s first ever OPEN exhibition, showing the best of the Northwest and was open to all regional residents.
1. Mon-O-Pause Notification - (Mixed media)
2. Time Bomb (The Clock Stops Here)- (Clay)
Received a Commended Artwork Award
Exhibition is on until 3rd February 2024.
#art exhibition#sculptor#mixed media
https://buryartmuseum.co.uk/
1. Mon-O-Pause Notification - (Mixed media)
2. Time Bomb (The Clock Stops Here)- (Clay)
Received a Commended Artwork Award
Exhibition is on until 3rd February 2024.
#art exhibition#sculptor#mixed media
https://buryartmuseum.co.uk/
House of Smalls presents
‘IN MEMORY OF’
August-September 2023
Showing artworks made in remembrance of someone lost/left.
Not all memories are loving.
Not all memories are loving.
END OF LIFE
Sandra Bouguerch is an interdisciplinary artist who uses photography, video and performance to investigate discomfort, need and the human desire for connection.
LAZARUS - A photographic image printed onto Brushed Aluminium and mounted onto oak, 18cm x 23cm £200
The subject is my late father who championed my artistic career and taken 4 days after he died. I applied gold leaf to his left eye as a symbol of esteem.
Order of Service - Printed booklet, 15cm x 21cm £100
Three still images (beginning, middle and end) were taken of my father Terence getting out of bed in the creation of an order of service artwork.
Rest- Digital image, 7cm x 13cm £100 a digital image taken during end of life procedure.
@sandrabouguerch
www.neoartists.co.uk/sandra-bouguerch
www.sandrabouguerch.tumblr.com
#SandraBouguerch#Lazarus#OrderOfService#Rest#InMemoryOf#TerenceTerryMcShane#Photography#BrushedAluminium#Oak#PrintedBooklet#ThreeStillImages#Father#Champion#DaysAfterDeath#GoldLeaf#LeftEye#SymbolOfEsteem#EndOfLife#EndOfLifeProcedure#HumanDesire#Connection#TheHouseOfSmalls#ChippingCampdenGallery
Sandra Bouguerch is an interdisciplinary artist who uses photography, video and performance to investigate discomfort, need and the human desire for connection.
LAZARUS - A photographic image printed onto Brushed Aluminium and mounted onto oak, 18cm x 23cm £200
The subject is my late father who championed my artistic career and taken 4 days after he died. I applied gold leaf to his left eye as a symbol of esteem.
Order of Service - Printed booklet, 15cm x 21cm £100
Three still images (beginning, middle and end) were taken of my father Terence getting out of bed in the creation of an order of service artwork.
Rest- Digital image, 7cm x 13cm £100 a digital image taken during end of life procedure.
@sandrabouguerch
www.neoartists.co.uk/sandra-bouguerch
www.sandrabouguerch.tumblr.com
#SandraBouguerch#Lazarus#OrderOfService#Rest#InMemoryOf#TerenceTerryMcShane#Photography#BrushedAluminium#Oak#PrintedBooklet#ThreeStillImages#Father#Champion#DaysAfterDeath#GoldLeaf#LeftEye#SymbolOfEsteem#EndOfLife#EndOfLifeProcedure#HumanDesire#Connection#TheHouseOfSmalls#ChippingCampdenGallery
Seeing is Believing arts commission
Me and artist Louise Garman featured in this article. https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gya3/operation-vulcan-police-taking-down-fake-fashion-manchester.
Listen to artist Louise talking to a reporter for the BBC4 programme ‘You and Yours’ aired yesterday about our arts project together called 'Believing is Seeing' along Counterfeit Street, Bury new road. Skip to 5.49 mins in to hear her!
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7026228018821922818-m7ur?utm_source=post_nba&utm_medium=member_desktop&utm_campaign=copy
Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground
Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground.
ps://www.facebook.com/groups/cineunder/permalink/10157793057862503/
Super news our collaborative film 'Chant for a Pandemic' curated by Dee Hood and chant written by Finn Harvor has been selected for Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground. Screening in December 2020
ps://www.facebook.com/groups/cineunder/permalink/10157793057862503/
Super news our collaborative film 'Chant for a Pandemic' curated by Dee Hood and chant written by Finn Harvor has been selected for Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground. Screening in December 2020
Pleased to be involved in the Social ARTery Pioneers
Axis—in conjunction with Social Art Network—are proud to announce the launch of their Social ARTery Pioneers programme to assist in the development of a new online platform for social practice artists.
The Social ARTery is an interactive online exchange platform that helps facilitate remote collaboration and creative making. Conceived in response to the growth of community-centred art making and the current need for better digital solutions to support participatory work as a result of Covid-19, the platform represents an alternative to mainstream social media sites, to create and present participatory art innovatively, run workshops, host peer-to-peer meetups and archive the learnings for the benefit of the wider artistic community.
The ARTery project team, comprising R.M Sánchez-Camus (Lead Artist), Lucy Wright (Social Producer), Mark Smith (Axis Executive Director), Daniela Liberati (Project Coordinator) and John Whall (Digital Mentoring Support) will be working closely with the Pioneers to trial the platform, currently in Beta format, before it becomes more widely accessible to artists.
www.axisweb.org/article/meet-the-pioneers/
The Social ARTery is an interactive online exchange platform that helps facilitate remote collaboration and creative making. Conceived in response to the growth of community-centred art making and the current need for better digital solutions to support participatory work as a result of Covid-19, the platform represents an alternative to mainstream social media sites, to create and present participatory art innovatively, run workshops, host peer-to-peer meetups and archive the learnings for the benefit of the wider artistic community.
The ARTery project team, comprising R.M Sánchez-Camus (Lead Artist), Lucy Wright (Social Producer), Mark Smith (Axis Executive Director), Daniela Liberati (Project Coordinator) and John Whall (Digital Mentoring Support) will be working closely with the Pioneers to trial the platform, currently in Beta format, before it becomes more widely accessible to artists.
www.axisweb.org/article/meet-the-pioneers/
'Chant for a Pandemic’ video screening with IMAGE
Our collaborative video is continuing to globally keep chanting....Chant for a Pandemic screening no10
Loomis Chaffee - Arts Residency, USA
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting and completing an invited arts residency at Loomis Chaffee School an independent, co-educational, college preparatory boarding and day school for grades 9-12 located in Windsor, Connecticut. In different times I would have physically been there, however being the 1st invited remote artist was a new and inspiring week. I was collaborating and creating video with Christian Ryan a tutor at The Visual Arts Department. We all responded to a moving image task I set which will be screened alongside my selected exhibited artworks.
The work will be exhibited in The Mercy Gallery, for showcasing professional and student works. Thank you to all who organised the residency which was a wonderful experience.it.
The work will be exhibited in The Mercy Gallery, for showcasing professional and student works. Thank you to all who organised the residency which was a wonderful experience.it.
Bologna in Lettere 2020 – PROGETTI – Dee Hood & global artists – Chant for A Pandemic
This is a collaboration between video artists around the globe. We wanted to share our common experience with this pandemic. There are no boundaries for anxiety, fear, grief and frustration. We are all in this long wait together. Today the world is on hold but we will be back. Thanks to all the artists for giving us a glimpse of where they live.
Chant For A Pandemic
Title Chant For A Pandemic
Date April 2020
Duration 5:08
Video MP-4 16:9 stereo
Vimeo link https://vimeo.com/404278739
"Chant for a Pandemic" is a short, experimental film, made by collaborators across the globe in response to the Covid 19 pandemic. Curated and edited by American experimental filmmaker, Dee Hood, the whole thing was shot and put together in less than two weeks.
Artists around the world are feeling a need to reflect and react to this new, fast changing, almost post-apocalyptic looking world with immediacy, and this is one early response created by a group of individuals who have mostly never met in real life but do have a shared vision and a passion for expression. We feel that video art and experimental approaches can shine a light on those areas of life which more traditional art forms or reportage cannot, getting deeper into those subconscious, dreamlike or even nightmarish feelings and sensations that we all experience but do not always acknowledge.
Curated and Edited by Dee Hood
Music by Tushar Waghela
Chant written by Finn Harvor - Singing by Finn Harvor & various artists
Filmmakers:
Finn Harvor (Seoul, Korea), Sandra Bouguerch (Bolton, UK), Maria Felix Korporal (Berlin, Germany), Tuchar Waghela (Durg, India), Muriel Paraboni (Milan, Italy), Lisi Prada (Leon, Spain), Eija Temiseva (Espoo, Finland), Ian Gibbins (Adelaide, South Australia), Jutta Pryor (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), Sarah Bliss (Montague, Mass, USA), Darko Duilo (Split, Croatia), Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (Lincoln, Nebraska, USA), Erick Tapia (Mexico City, Mexico), Lori Ersolmaz (Naples, Florida, USA), Avant Kinema / Sarahjane Swan & Roger Simian (Scottish Borders, Scotland), Lino Mocerino (Foggia, Italy), Francesca Giuliani (Lamis, Italy), Luis Carlos Rodriguez (Spain), Dee Hood (USA), Willow Morgan (Ruskin, Florida, USA).
Date April 2020
Duration 5:08
Video MP-4 16:9 stereo
Vimeo link https://vimeo.com/404278739
"Chant for a Pandemic" is a short, experimental film, made by collaborators across the globe in response to the Covid 19 pandemic. Curated and edited by American experimental filmmaker, Dee Hood, the whole thing was shot and put together in less than two weeks.
Artists around the world are feeling a need to reflect and react to this new, fast changing, almost post-apocalyptic looking world with immediacy, and this is one early response created by a group of individuals who have mostly never met in real life but do have a shared vision and a passion for expression. We feel that video art and experimental approaches can shine a light on those areas of life which more traditional art forms or reportage cannot, getting deeper into those subconscious, dreamlike or even nightmarish feelings and sensations that we all experience but do not always acknowledge.
Curated and Edited by Dee Hood
Music by Tushar Waghela
Chant written by Finn Harvor - Singing by Finn Harvor & various artists
Filmmakers:
Finn Harvor (Seoul, Korea), Sandra Bouguerch (Bolton, UK), Maria Felix Korporal (Berlin, Germany), Tuchar Waghela (Durg, India), Muriel Paraboni (Milan, Italy), Lisi Prada (Leon, Spain), Eija Temiseva (Espoo, Finland), Ian Gibbins (Adelaide, South Australia), Jutta Pryor (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), Sarah Bliss (Montague, Mass, USA), Darko Duilo (Split, Croatia), Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (Lincoln, Nebraska, USA), Erick Tapia (Mexico City, Mexico), Lori Ersolmaz (Naples, Florida, USA), Avant Kinema / Sarahjane Swan & Roger Simian (Scottish Borders, Scotland), Lino Mocerino (Foggia, Italy), Francesca Giuliani (Lamis, Italy), Luis Carlos Rodriguez (Spain), Dee Hood (USA), Willow Morgan (Ruskin, Florida, USA).
LET YOUR LONE RANGER RIDE WITH BILL DRUMMOND
Arts Residency in the Pyrenees, France
STARTS 10/07/2019
Thrilled to have been granted funding via CAMP's Open Grants program for low income earners.
https://www.campfr.com
https://www.campfr.com/course/32/let-your-lone-ranger-ride-with-bill-drummond
This workshop will contain discussion, debate, arguing; the making of things that no passer-by would recognise as art; the making of art that will require interaction with the unforewarned local population; regret; compromise; the creation and destruction of doctrines; pain; relief; maybe some joy, and breakfast. And soup, made by Bill.
Working in the classroom, outdoors in the landscape, in the studio, through group and individual guidance, this session will embrace the principles of free thought, metacritical assessment of art and music, and avoidance (and simultaneous generation) of absurdity.
https://www.campfr.com
https://www.campfr.com/course/32/let-your-lone-ranger-ride-with-bill-drummond
This workshop will contain discussion, debate, arguing; the making of things that no passer-by would recognise as art; the making of art that will require interaction with the unforewarned local population; regret; compromise; the creation and destruction of doctrines; pain; relief; maybe some joy, and breakfast. And soup, made by Bill.
Working in the classroom, outdoors in the landscape, in the studio, through group and individual guidance, this session will embrace the principles of free thought, metacritical assessment of art and music, and avoidance (and simultaneous generation) of absurdity.
Greater Manchester Arts Prize For Contemporary Visual Art
Entries for our 2019 competition have now closed with record number of submissions being received. Of which, 50 pieces were shortlisted by the judging panel.
The prize has been created to provide a platform for contemporary visual artists to become connected to the region’s business community, help provide opportunities for artists to be recognised on a national/international scale and help retain artistic talent in our area.
We are delighted to be holding our GM Arts Prize Exhibition at Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
https://www.gmartsprize.co.uk/gallery/
The prize has been created to provide a platform for contemporary visual artists to become connected to the region’s business community, help provide opportunities for artists to be recognised on a national/international scale and help retain artistic talent in our area.
We are delighted to be holding our GM Arts Prize Exhibition at Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
https://www.gmartsprize.co.uk/gallery/
Some Velvet Morning Somewhere in France
Nippelle invited artists Sandra Bouguerch and Jackie Haynes to perform their piece Some Velvet Morning Somewhere in France at the Private view of the exhibition Women and Empowerment on Friday May 3rd.
The performance Some Velvet Morning Somewhere in France was based upon a written plan of action which would alter depending on memory, interaction and pace.
Scene one
Walkie-talkies and inflatable breasts placed on the floor
Sandra and Jackie standing back to back
S and J give context including Some Velvet Morning/Somewhere in France
S states the following performance derives from Some Velvet Morning which developed through an arts residency at Islington Mill with Lydia Lunch - who is many things!
J helps S on with inflatable breasts
Both gently bounce back to back
Pick up walkie-talkies
Scene two
S focused small very slow figure of eight
J calls S on walkie-talkie about first line of poetry:
The language is only a medium to feel. Not to understand. Do you understand that? You understand? Do you really understand?
Confusion about the first line of poetry
S Eh? What you talking about?
J points out that this is a new idea like the Claus Oldenburg idea which has now become very popular with S
S replies even thought your’e catching me at the wrong moment YES I must admit I did eventually understand the importance of the text sculptures 3 for fiver, the ones you kept ringing me about in the middle of the night from the Hamburger inflatable guy…There here as I speak….
I am for an art you can sit on
I am for an art covered in bandages
I am for the art of dead birds
I am for art that sheds hair - Must admit that’s relevant in the midst of err my menopause
J walks across the floor crossing over the spot, and accidentally tumbles the boxes as she passes through
Scene three
J walks diagonally to the next corner
J calls S with the walkie-talkie and says the second line of poetry:
‘Do you understand that there are things which you cannot understand?
You understand, it is difficult, not to understand.’
S is irritated that she has had her focus interrupted for a second time
S states Bluming hek Jackie what bit of I’m trying to focus is not getting through?
You talking about understanding ?
I really don’t think your being very aware of my situation
J points out that the project is next year and the funding application needs to be in this year
S states Arts Council Funding if you’d let me focus and crack we wouldn’t need it anyway because I’ll have been paid for this project THAT Im trying to work on!
S continues to focus on arranging the boxes re-stacking neatly from where Jackie kicked them and resuming her figure of eight
J walks across the floor crossing over the spot muttering about how nothing would get done if she didn’t do it muttering only trying to help
Scene Four
J walks across the floor crossing of the spot to reach the third point
J calls S with the walkie-talkie and says the third line of poetry:
Why speak a language which you shall not stand under?
S states Okay okay I’m trying to think what you want me to understand but the point is from where in standing is YOUR INTERruppting me but I think do understand.
S and J discuss what that might mean in relation to Schwitters and Hausmann and the change of languages from German to English in Schwitters’ case and to French in Hausmann's case
This discussions signals a breakthrough in the development of the project S changes her focus and J feels like the collaboration is beginning
J and S agree that this is what the project will reveal Some Velvet Morning Somewhere in France
S & J together say We just have to listen, understand and work together okay mate!
Both do a figure of 8 together then walk off
Scene one
Walkie-talkies and inflatable breasts placed on the floor
Sandra and Jackie standing back to back
S and J give context including Some Velvet Morning/Somewhere in France
S states the following performance derives from Some Velvet Morning which developed through an arts residency at Islington Mill with Lydia Lunch - who is many things!
J helps S on with inflatable breasts
Both gently bounce back to back
Pick up walkie-talkies
Scene two
S focused small very slow figure of eight
J calls S on walkie-talkie about first line of poetry:
The language is only a medium to feel. Not to understand. Do you understand that? You understand? Do you really understand?
Confusion about the first line of poetry
S Eh? What you talking about?
J points out that this is a new idea like the Claus Oldenburg idea which has now become very popular with S
S replies even thought your’e catching me at the wrong moment YES I must admit I did eventually understand the importance of the text sculptures 3 for fiver, the ones you kept ringing me about in the middle of the night from the Hamburger inflatable guy…There here as I speak….
I am for an art you can sit on
I am for an art covered in bandages
I am for the art of dead birds
I am for art that sheds hair - Must admit that’s relevant in the midst of err my menopause
J walks across the floor crossing over the spot, and accidentally tumbles the boxes as she passes through
Scene three
J walks diagonally to the next corner
J calls S with the walkie-talkie and says the second line of poetry:
‘Do you understand that there are things which you cannot understand?
You understand, it is difficult, not to understand.’
S is irritated that she has had her focus interrupted for a second time
S states Bluming hek Jackie what bit of I’m trying to focus is not getting through?
You talking about understanding ?
I really don’t think your being very aware of my situation
J points out that the project is next year and the funding application needs to be in this year
S states Arts Council Funding if you’d let me focus and crack we wouldn’t need it anyway because I’ll have been paid for this project THAT Im trying to work on!
S continues to focus on arranging the boxes re-stacking neatly from where Jackie kicked them and resuming her figure of eight
J walks across the floor crossing over the spot muttering about how nothing would get done if she didn’t do it muttering only trying to help
Scene Four
J walks across the floor crossing of the spot to reach the third point
J calls S with the walkie-talkie and says the third line of poetry:
Why speak a language which you shall not stand under?
S states Okay okay I’m trying to think what you want me to understand but the point is from where in standing is YOUR INTERruppting me but I think do understand.
S and J discuss what that might mean in relation to Schwitters and Hausmann and the change of languages from German to English in Schwitters’ case and to French in Hausmann's case
This discussions signals a breakthrough in the development of the project S changes her focus and J feels like the collaboration is beginning
J and S agree that this is what the project will reveal Some Velvet Morning Somewhere in France
S & J together say We just have to listen, understand and work together okay mate!
Both do a figure of 8 together then walk off
Women & Empowerment Exhibition
A group of second year fine art students from The University of Bolton are presenting a group show Women and Empowerment at Rogue Project Space from May 3rd until May 9th. “Nippelle”, the all-female group, have made work in response to the principle of empowerment from a range of perspectives including identity, body image and sexuality, as well as the psychological aspect of disempowerment.
The group have invited artists Sandra Bouguerch and Jackie Haynes to perform their piece Some Velvet Morning Somewhere in France at the Private view of the exhibition on Friday May 3rd.
Women and Empowerment opens on Friday May 3rd from 7pm until 9pm and continues until May 9th (opening times: 11am until 2pm – closed Tuesday May 7th) All welcome.
The group have invited artists Sandra Bouguerch and Jackie Haynes to perform their piece Some Velvet Morning Somewhere in France at the Private view of the exhibition on Friday May 3rd.
Women and Empowerment opens on Friday May 3rd from 7pm until 9pm and continues until May 9th (opening times: 11am until 2pm – closed Tuesday May 7th) All welcome.
THE LOVERS by SANDRA BOUGUERCH
The card of the Lovers portrays an unshaven faced charming muslim man.
He is dressed in a red work jacket generously given by the American company he sells poison for.
His name in Arabic means generous.
A mature brunette, grey eyed and slightly wilting English rose who is dressed in faded imperial purple sits opposite him.
Wearing a silver ring she offers a bright pink lipstick (later replaced with blood red) which he tentatively accepts and awkwardly clasps it in his right hand.
She offers him the World.
There’s an ominous dark shadow playing out behind them on the blank wall.
Choices given and taken, backwards and forwards with a change of minds and action, and so begins the dilemma.
Reflected behind on the wall display our values mirroring who we are and who we are about to become.
When is the right time?
All choices have consequences, are we ultimately responsible?
Look carefully, consider and choose.
29th March 2019: What’s on the Cards?
This is time of major political events, maybe for many the most important in living memory. The possible separation of the UK and EU, a union held dearly by many, is being discussed far and wide.Separation of some sort is a journey common to all humanity at some point. From love and conflict, with its worldly trials of ethical challenges through loss, crisis, despair and transformation, to an awakening of new hope and maturity, towards the achievement of a goal – which in turn leads to yet another journey.
Collective North: Join artist collaborative on the 29th March to find out what the future might hold for us all. Let’s come together and see:
The card of the Lovers portrays an unshaven faced charming muslim man.
He is dressed in a red work jacket generously given by the American company he sells poison for.
His name in Arabic means generous.
A mature brunette, grey eyed and slightly wilting English rose who is dressed in faded imperial purple sits opposite him.
Wearing a silver ring she offers a bright pink lipstick (later replaced with blood red) which he tentatively accepts and awkwardly clasps it in his right hand.
She offers him the World.
There’s an ominous dark shadow playing out behind them on the blank wall.
Choices given and taken, backwards and forwards with a change of minds and action, and so begins the dilemma.
Reflected behind on the wall display our values mirroring who we are and who we are about to become.
When is the right time?
All choices have consequences, are we ultimately responsible?
Look carefully, consider and choose.
29th March 2019: What’s on the Cards?
This is time of major political events, maybe for many the most important in living memory. The possible separation of the UK and EU, a union held dearly by many, is being discussed far and wide.Separation of some sort is a journey common to all humanity at some point. From love and conflict, with its worldly trials of ethical challenges through loss, crisis, despair and transformation, to an awakening of new hope and maturity, towards the achievement of a goal – which in turn leads to yet another journey.
Collective North: Join artist collaborative on the 29th March to find out what the future might hold for us all. Let’s come together and see:
INTERRUPTED Video Screening USA
INTERRUPTED is a programme of International Experimental Video Art on the 2nd April from 6.30-8.30pm at the Firehouse Cultural Center, Ruskin, Florida, USA
Curated by Dee Hood
Artists:
Hiroshi Atobe, Sandra Bouguerch, Dee Hood, Maria Felix Korporal, Mohamed Thara, Lisi Prada, Angelina Voskopoulou, Tushar Waghela, Kent Tate, Muriel Paraboni, Hiroya Sakurai, Erick Tapia, Santiago Echeverry.
https://www.facebook.com/FirehouseCulturalCenter
http://firehouseculturalcenter.org
Curated by Dee Hood
Artists:
Hiroshi Atobe, Sandra Bouguerch, Dee Hood, Maria Felix Korporal, Mohamed Thara, Lisi Prada, Angelina Voskopoulou, Tushar Waghela, Kent Tate, Muriel Paraboni, Hiroya Sakurai, Erick Tapia, Santiago Echeverry.
https://www.facebook.com/FirehouseCulturalCenter
http://firehouseculturalcenter.org
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yV5UFWvymJNJbImqOjDwsX0DAuysPKjS3cQpyhjGB7Y/edit?usp=sharing
'Be My Dog' sound-work selected for mixtape #IWD
Installation of experimental music and sound art
The Department of Creative Arts, Media & Music at Dundalk Institute of Technology, hosts Mixtape #IWD, a two day multi-channel sound installation of experimental electronic music and sound art; cinema for the ear. This event, being held to mark International Women’s Day (IWD), brings together a wide array of music and sound art from across the world.
soundcloud.com/sandra-bouguerch/be-my-dog
The Department of Creative Arts, Media & Music at Dundalk Institute of Technology, hosts Mixtape #IWD, a two day multi-channel sound installation of experimental electronic music and sound art; cinema for the ear. This event, being held to mark International Women’s Day (IWD), brings together a wide array of music and sound art from across the world.
soundcloud.com/sandra-bouguerch/be-my-dog
The Notion of SELF - Slideshow
https://vimeo.com/315076189
Sandra Bouguerch is a Greater Manchester based interdisciplinary artist who works across video, photography, print, installation, performance and participates in collaborations. Sandra creates artworks and atmospheres revolving around the ‘exploration of self’; focusing on what it means to be human. The impermanence and fluidity of life is echoed in her work and its ephemeral nature emphasises the ambiguity of identity.
Her work has been exhibited and programmed widely, including at the Independents Liverpool Biennial ‘Noimageavailable’ (2012); TIME is Love Screening.7 (2014) Screening.11 international video art program( 2018); Hung, Drawn & Curated, Castlefield Gallery; Manchester (2015) and ‘Pulses and Pauses’ International video exhibition and exchange, Marrakech Biennial (2016); Birth Rites Collection, Whitworth Art Gallery and Kings College London; Fountain Fountain, Mike Chavez Dawson, Bury Art Gallery (2018)
She has undertaken residencies at Impose/Lift, The Penthouse, The Curfew Tower, N.Ireland; Set II Unit 3 Project Space, ASC, London.
’Handle with Care’, Solo exhibition, The Studios, New Mills
She was the recipient of an arts Bursary by a.n Artists Information Company funding to Rabat, Morocco (2016); co-curated ‘Interface’ at Neo:gallery23, Bolton. Recent awards are Waterside Open, Sale (First Prize) and FE/Male Air Gallery, Altrincham (AIR Award Prize).
Was a judge for AIR Gallery Open 2108.
Publications are Corridor8, Interface by Bob Dickinson, http://www.corridor8.co.uk/article/interface/; Second Degree Potentias, by Bob Dickinson; Lydia Lunch presents From the Page to the Stage, a Samarbeta Residency, Islington Mill.
Her work has been exhibited and programmed widely, including at the Independents Liverpool Biennial ‘Noimageavailable’ (2012); TIME is Love Screening.7 (2014) Screening.11 international video art program( 2018); Hung, Drawn & Curated, Castlefield Gallery; Manchester (2015) and ‘Pulses and Pauses’ International video exhibition and exchange, Marrakech Biennial (2016); Birth Rites Collection, Whitworth Art Gallery and Kings College London; Fountain Fountain, Mike Chavez Dawson, Bury Art Gallery (2018)
She has undertaken residencies at Impose/Lift, The Penthouse, The Curfew Tower, N.Ireland; Set II Unit 3 Project Space, ASC, London.
’Handle with Care’, Solo exhibition, The Studios, New Mills
She was the recipient of an arts Bursary by a.n Artists Information Company funding to Rabat, Morocco (2016); co-curated ‘Interface’ at Neo:gallery23, Bolton. Recent awards are Waterside Open, Sale (First Prize) and FE/Male Air Gallery, Altrincham (AIR Award Prize).
Was a judge for AIR Gallery Open 2108.
Publications are Corridor8, Interface by Bob Dickinson, http://www.corridor8.co.uk/article/interface/; Second Degree Potentias, by Bob Dickinson; Lydia Lunch presents From the Page to the Stage, a Samarbeta Residency, Islington Mill.
Video High-light Screening
Selected by Wigan council and D-circus for Wigan Light Night festival held Saturday 27th October. Location was Wigan Library.
Curriculum Vitae
CV
Education
2009-2012 BA Hons in Fine Art, 1st Class Degree, Governors Award for
Outstanding Achievement The University of Bolton
2008 PTTLES (Preparing to teach in the life long learning sector)
1982-1986 HND Graphic Design, Bolton Collage of Art
Awards
2018 March-May Waterside Open, Sale (First Prize)
February-March FE/Male Air Gallery, Altrincham (AIR Award Prize)
2016 June-July Bursary, a.n Artists Information Company, Morocco
2013 June-July Neo:artprize (commendation), Neo:gallery22, Bolton
2012 June Vice Chancellor’s Award, University of Bolton
Exhibition Judge
2014 July Air Gallery Open Call, Altrincham, Co-judges Omid Asadi; Louise Garman
Curating Exhibitions
2018 April-May Interface, co-curators Lucie Wilson & Sume Layden, Neo:gallery23, Bolton
2015 November Fingers Crossed co-curator Katarynza Jablonska, The Wonder Inn
March Fingers Crossed, 3rd Floor Studios, Manchester
February Fingers Crossed, The Engine Room, Awol Studios, Manchester
2014 April-May Exploring Boundaries, co-curators Tim Dolphin & John Howarth,
Neo:gallery22, Bolton
2012 May Line of Enquiry, co-curator Angela O’Mara, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
Solo Exhibition
2014 January-February ’Handle with Care’, The Studios, New Mills
Residency’s and Projects
2019 July Let You’re Lone Ranger Ride with Bill Drummond, CAMP France
2017 July-August Set II Unit 3 Project Space, ASC, London
April Curfew Tower, N.Ireland, Impose/Lift, The Penthouse
2015 November Lydia Lunch ‘From the Page to the Stage’ Samarbeta Residency, Islington Mill
2016 May Start Where You Are: SECOND DEGREE POTENTIAS, Rogue Project Space
2015 MSB2015 Residency Exchange Third Floor Studios, Manchester June;
Bloc Projects, Sheffield July; Stryx, Birmingham August
2014 May C-PAGES’ TOAST WILL HOST’ Manchester and Stryx, Birmingham
2013 March DIY Art School Residency, Kurt Schwitters Merz Barn, Cumbria
Touring Exhibitions
2018 TIME IS LOVE.11 Curator Kisito Assangni
May Ex-New Contemporary Art Centre, Milano, Italy
April Casablanca International Video Art Festival, Morocco
March CCA, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
February Lily Agius Gallery, Sliema, Malta
2014 TIME IS LOVE.7 International video art program
January The Invisible Line Gallery, London
March Galeria Talmart, Paris
April Pink Gallery, Seoul, www.pinkgallery.org
May Vovatanya Gallery, Ukraine
May Kolektiva Institute, Photon-Centre for Contemporary Photography, Slovenia
August Torrance Art Museum, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 June-July GM Arts Prize, Bolton Museum Art Gallery
March Whats on the cards, Collective North, Barbecue, Chorlton, Manchester
March Mixtape #IWD, Recital Room, PJ Carroll Building, Dundalk IT, Ireland
2018 Oct-Nov Corduroy Part 2, International Exchange neo:uk/Studio44, Neo:gallery23, Bolton
August Self and Other, Neo:gallery23, Bolton
August Queer Curfew, The Penthouse Curfew Tower, N.Ireland
April-May Interface, Neo:gallery23, Bolton Market Place
January Birth Rites Collection, Whitworth Art Gallery; Kings College London
September-January Fountain Fountain, Mike Chavez Dawson, Bury Art Gallery
2017 November-December Corduroy Part 1 - Are We in Progress?
Studio 44, Tjarhovsgatan 44 & ABF Huset, Sveavagen 41, Stockholm, Sweden
October Intimate, Isherwood Gallery, The Old Courts, Wigan
September Room to View, Providence Church, New Mills Festival
July-May Small World, PS Mirabel, Manchester
April Bolton Little Theatre Open
March CFCCA Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester
February Neo Open, neo:gallery23, Bolton
January Mono, PS Mirabel, Manchester
January 20:20 Print Exhibition, neo:gallery23, Bolton
2016 November Hard Focus, ArtWork Atelier, Salford
September-October Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, Galley at Bank Quay House
September Start Where You Are: SECOND DEGREE POTENTIAS, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
September anartistsinfoFeatured blogger
August-October Neo:print Prize, Neo:gallery23, Bolton
July-October Spectrum Open Arts Exhibition, PS Mirabel, Manchester
January 20:20 Print Exchange, Hotbed Press, Salford
January-February 24:24:24, PS Mirabel, Mirabel Street Manchester
2015 November Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, Galley at Bank Quay House
November-December PS Mirabel, Multiply Print Show, Manchester
December Hotbed Press, 20:20 Print, Salford, Manchester
August Shelf Life, PS Mirabel, Manchester
July Manifest, A6 Dialogue 4, Bankley Studios & Gallery, Manchester
June DADA 100, Islington Mill, Salford
June-August Dead Funny, Neo:gallery27, Bolton
May Hung, Drawn & Curated, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2014 November-December Hotbed Press, 20:20, Salford, Manchester
November-December Multiply, PS Mirabel, Manchester
November A6 Dialogue 3, 3rd Floor Studios, Manchester
October Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, Galley at Bank Quay House
October Unstuffed, Free For Arts Festival, Islington Mill, Salford
August A6 Dialogue 2, Bankley Studios & Gallery, Manchester
December Neo:Presents Winter Salon, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
August Bankley Open, Bankley Studios & Gallery, Manchester
August INSTAGRAM takeover, Fuse Art Space, Bradford (UK)
July PS Mirabel Open, Manchester
March-April Arbitrary Ground, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
March Hotbed Press, 20:20, Salford, Manchester
2013 December-February Bolton Museum Open Art Exhibition
July-August Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, Pyramid Arts Centre
November Hotbed Press, 20:20, Salford, Manchester
October-January ’Risk’, Waterside Arts Centre, Sale, Manchester
July If Not Here Where, The Didsbury Parsonage, Manchester
July-August Python Open Arts Exhibition, The Gallery at St Georges House, Bolton
June ANDROID, 4 Piccadilly Place, Manchester
February-April The I And The Mind, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
February Open House, The Penthouse, Northern Qtr, Manchester
2012 November Future Perfect, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
September Neo:printprize, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
September-October 53 Degree North, The New School House Gallery, York
September Liverpool Biennial (Independents), Noimageavailable, Liverpool
June-July Neo:artprize, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
April-June Through, (Process art exhibition) Neo:gallery22, Bolton
April About Face, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
February State of the Art, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
2011 September-October Transition, Neo:artists Gallery, Bolton
Commissions 2019 March SIGNAL (Photographic Intervention) Bolton at Home
2011 Public Art, Bolton One Swimming Pool
Performances/events
2019 May ‘Some Velvet Morning Somewhere in France’ Women and Empowerment, Rogue
2018 December The Salford Star News, Salford Precinct
Oct-Nov Corduroy Part 2, International Exchange neo:uk/Studio44, Neo:gallery23, Bolton
2015 December The Transformation of Things, Islington Mill, Salford
November ’Twitching’ Performance, The Visceral Tear Sue Fox book Launch, Wonder Inn
June ’Be my Dog' Performance, Penny Arcade at HOME, Manchester
2013 February UR Performance (Purple), Islington Mill, Salford, Manchester
2012 December UR Performance (White), Islington Mill, Salford, Manchester
Screenings
2019 April ‘Interrupted’, International & Experimental Video Art, The Firehouse Cultural Centre, Florida
2018 October Wigan Night Light Festival
2016 June Women’s Voices International Woman’s Day, Manchester Craft and Design Centre
2016 February Marrakech Biennial ‘Pulses and Pauses’, video exhibition and Exchange
2015 September Altered States, Coastal Currents Arts Festival & at Butlers Gap, Hastings
2013 December BYOB, LDP Space, Castlefield, Manchester
Talks/Presentations
2019 May Young at Art-Socially Engaged Arts Project, Museum of Liverpool
March Bolton University Foundation Students (Identity, self, other)
February UCLan, University of Central Lancashire, Masters Fine Arts Student
2018 November Bolton University 2nd & 3rd year & MA Fine Arts Students
2017 August Dr Lee Campbell - Vision Impairment presented ‘A New Vision when the Mind Hears’ video The Brady Arts Centre, London
October Intimate, Isherwood Gallery, Old Courts, Wigan
July Manifest Arts , MIF, HOME, Manchester
June Bolton University 2nd year Fine Arts Students
2015 Dementia, Arts for Health at Manchester Metropolitan University
CDP 2018 November POPH65011 Residential 1st Semester, MA Arts and Public Health, Manchester University
Public Engagement/Workshops
2019 May-July ‘Walkie Talkie Wigan’ Hindley Library, Wigan Council Funding
April - March 2020 ‘Journal of Journeys’ Creative Companion, Tonge Moor Carers, CVS funding
2018 November Corduroy part 2, community group visit to Neo:gallery23
2018 October Wigan & Leigh Light Night Festival Video installation & 3 family workshops
July Festival of Ageing, ‘Celebration Selfie’ workshop
July Festival of Ageing, ‘Creating Sunshine’ NHS Memory Assessment Team, Dementia/Carers
April-May ‘Hands On’ Air-dried Clay with Bolton Cares commissioned by Making Changes and CVS funding
February ‘Love Clay’ Bolton at Homes Community Investment Grant
2017 February-April ‘Life Story’ Project commissioned by Making Changes (Bolton at Home) and AGE UK ‘Ambition for Ageing’ at Thicketford Day Care Centre, Bolton. (Scrap-booking workshops engaging with Service Users, some of whom are living with dementia)
August-October ‘Gelli-printmaking' commissioned by Making Changes (Bolton at Home) and AGE UK ‘Ambition for Ageing’ at Greenway Community Centre
2016 August -December R-Age A Definition of Love, Project commissioned by The Heart of Glass, St Helens
(Collaboration with artists Alison Kershaw and Another Adele working, delivering a series of workshops with people living with Dementia, culminating in a final exhibition)
2016 August Gallery tour/workshop at neo:print prize 2016 with Bolton at Home service users
2015 November City Arcadia, Artspace, Coventry
2015 Photography Project at Greenway Community Centre and Hall i’ th’ Wood Museum
2015 ‘Junk Sculpture’ (Fusion Community Group, Bolton)
2015 Scrapbooking (Golden Oldies and Bolton at Home)
2015 Breaktivity (Children/Parents and Bolton at Home)
Publications 2018 Contemporary Art blog by Jenny Drinkwater Catherall
http://www.jennydrinkwater.co.uk/portfolio/sandra-bouguerch-artist-winner-of-air-award-and-waterside-open-2018/
2018 June Corridor8, Interface by Bob Dickinson, http://www.corridor8.co.uk/article/interface/
2016 August Second Degree Potentias, by Bob Dickinson
2016 March Lydia Lunch presents From the Page to the Stage, a Samarbeta Residency
Islington Mill, https://samarbeta.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-page-to-the-stage
2014 June, Les Femmes Folles - Women in Art, on-line Interview curated by Sally Deskins
http://femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com/search/sandra+bouguerch
March Annabelle Boko Operatoranna, Chance Encounters #21, on-line Interview
Education
2009-2012 BA Hons in Fine Art, 1st Class Degree, Governors Award for
Outstanding Achievement The University of Bolton
2008 PTTLES (Preparing to teach in the life long learning sector)
1982-1986 HND Graphic Design, Bolton Collage of Art
Awards
2018 March-May Waterside Open, Sale (First Prize)
February-March FE/Male Air Gallery, Altrincham (AIR Award Prize)
2016 June-July Bursary, a.n Artists Information Company, Morocco
2013 June-July Neo:artprize (commendation), Neo:gallery22, Bolton
2012 June Vice Chancellor’s Award, University of Bolton
Exhibition Judge
2014 July Air Gallery Open Call, Altrincham, Co-judges Omid Asadi; Louise Garman
Curating Exhibitions
2018 April-May Interface, co-curators Lucie Wilson & Sume Layden, Neo:gallery23, Bolton
2015 November Fingers Crossed co-curator Katarynza Jablonska, The Wonder Inn
March Fingers Crossed, 3rd Floor Studios, Manchester
February Fingers Crossed, The Engine Room, Awol Studios, Manchester
2014 April-May Exploring Boundaries, co-curators Tim Dolphin & John Howarth,
Neo:gallery22, Bolton
2012 May Line of Enquiry, co-curator Angela O’Mara, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
Solo Exhibition
2014 January-February ’Handle with Care’, The Studios, New Mills
Residency’s and Projects
2019 July Let You’re Lone Ranger Ride with Bill Drummond, CAMP France
2017 July-August Set II Unit 3 Project Space, ASC, London
April Curfew Tower, N.Ireland, Impose/Lift, The Penthouse
2015 November Lydia Lunch ‘From the Page to the Stage’ Samarbeta Residency, Islington Mill
2016 May Start Where You Are: SECOND DEGREE POTENTIAS, Rogue Project Space
2015 MSB2015 Residency Exchange Third Floor Studios, Manchester June;
Bloc Projects, Sheffield July; Stryx, Birmingham August
2014 May C-PAGES’ TOAST WILL HOST’ Manchester and Stryx, Birmingham
2013 March DIY Art School Residency, Kurt Schwitters Merz Barn, Cumbria
Touring Exhibitions
2018 TIME IS LOVE.11 Curator Kisito Assangni
May Ex-New Contemporary Art Centre, Milano, Italy
April Casablanca International Video Art Festival, Morocco
March CCA, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
February Lily Agius Gallery, Sliema, Malta
2014 TIME IS LOVE.7 International video art program
January The Invisible Line Gallery, London
March Galeria Talmart, Paris
April Pink Gallery, Seoul, www.pinkgallery.org
May Vovatanya Gallery, Ukraine
May Kolektiva Institute, Photon-Centre for Contemporary Photography, Slovenia
August Torrance Art Museum, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 June-July GM Arts Prize, Bolton Museum Art Gallery
March Whats on the cards, Collective North, Barbecue, Chorlton, Manchester
March Mixtape #IWD, Recital Room, PJ Carroll Building, Dundalk IT, Ireland
2018 Oct-Nov Corduroy Part 2, International Exchange neo:uk/Studio44, Neo:gallery23, Bolton
August Self and Other, Neo:gallery23, Bolton
August Queer Curfew, The Penthouse Curfew Tower, N.Ireland
April-May Interface, Neo:gallery23, Bolton Market Place
January Birth Rites Collection, Whitworth Art Gallery; Kings College London
September-January Fountain Fountain, Mike Chavez Dawson, Bury Art Gallery
2017 November-December Corduroy Part 1 - Are We in Progress?
Studio 44, Tjarhovsgatan 44 & ABF Huset, Sveavagen 41, Stockholm, Sweden
October Intimate, Isherwood Gallery, The Old Courts, Wigan
September Room to View, Providence Church, New Mills Festival
July-May Small World, PS Mirabel, Manchester
April Bolton Little Theatre Open
March CFCCA Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester
February Neo Open, neo:gallery23, Bolton
January Mono, PS Mirabel, Manchester
January 20:20 Print Exhibition, neo:gallery23, Bolton
2016 November Hard Focus, ArtWork Atelier, Salford
September-October Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, Galley at Bank Quay House
September Start Where You Are: SECOND DEGREE POTENTIAS, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
September anartistsinfoFeatured blogger
August-October Neo:print Prize, Neo:gallery23, Bolton
July-October Spectrum Open Arts Exhibition, PS Mirabel, Manchester
January 20:20 Print Exchange, Hotbed Press, Salford
January-February 24:24:24, PS Mirabel, Mirabel Street Manchester
2015 November Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, Galley at Bank Quay House
November-December PS Mirabel, Multiply Print Show, Manchester
December Hotbed Press, 20:20 Print, Salford, Manchester
August Shelf Life, PS Mirabel, Manchester
July Manifest, A6 Dialogue 4, Bankley Studios & Gallery, Manchester
June DADA 100, Islington Mill, Salford
June-August Dead Funny, Neo:gallery27, Bolton
May Hung, Drawn & Curated, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2014 November-December Hotbed Press, 20:20, Salford, Manchester
November-December Multiply, PS Mirabel, Manchester
November A6 Dialogue 3, 3rd Floor Studios, Manchester
October Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, Galley at Bank Quay House
October Unstuffed, Free For Arts Festival, Islington Mill, Salford
August A6 Dialogue 2, Bankley Studios & Gallery, Manchester
December Neo:Presents Winter Salon, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
August Bankley Open, Bankley Studios & Gallery, Manchester
August INSTAGRAM takeover, Fuse Art Space, Bradford (UK)
July PS Mirabel Open, Manchester
March-April Arbitrary Ground, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
March Hotbed Press, 20:20, Salford, Manchester
2013 December-February Bolton Museum Open Art Exhibition
July-August Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, Pyramid Arts Centre
November Hotbed Press, 20:20, Salford, Manchester
October-January ’Risk’, Waterside Arts Centre, Sale, Manchester
July If Not Here Where, The Didsbury Parsonage, Manchester
July-August Python Open Arts Exhibition, The Gallery at St Georges House, Bolton
June ANDROID, 4 Piccadilly Place, Manchester
February-April The I And The Mind, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
February Open House, The Penthouse, Northern Qtr, Manchester
2012 November Future Perfect, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
September Neo:printprize, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
September-October 53 Degree North, The New School House Gallery, York
September Liverpool Biennial (Independents), Noimageavailable, Liverpool
June-July Neo:artprize, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
April-June Through, (Process art exhibition) Neo:gallery22, Bolton
April About Face, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
February State of the Art, Neo:gallery22, Bolton
2011 September-October Transition, Neo:artists Gallery, Bolton
Commissions 2019 March SIGNAL (Photographic Intervention) Bolton at Home
2011 Public Art, Bolton One Swimming Pool
Performances/events
2019 May ‘Some Velvet Morning Somewhere in France’ Women and Empowerment, Rogue
2018 December The Salford Star News, Salford Precinct
Oct-Nov Corduroy Part 2, International Exchange neo:uk/Studio44, Neo:gallery23, Bolton
2015 December The Transformation of Things, Islington Mill, Salford
November ’Twitching’ Performance, The Visceral Tear Sue Fox book Launch, Wonder Inn
June ’Be my Dog' Performance, Penny Arcade at HOME, Manchester
2013 February UR Performance (Purple), Islington Mill, Salford, Manchester
2012 December UR Performance (White), Islington Mill, Salford, Manchester
Screenings
2019 April ‘Interrupted’, International & Experimental Video Art, The Firehouse Cultural Centre, Florida
2018 October Wigan Night Light Festival
2016 June Women’s Voices International Woman’s Day, Manchester Craft and Design Centre
2016 February Marrakech Biennial ‘Pulses and Pauses’, video exhibition and Exchange
2015 September Altered States, Coastal Currents Arts Festival & at Butlers Gap, Hastings
2013 December BYOB, LDP Space, Castlefield, Manchester
Talks/Presentations
2019 May Young at Art-Socially Engaged Arts Project, Museum of Liverpool
March Bolton University Foundation Students (Identity, self, other)
February UCLan, University of Central Lancashire, Masters Fine Arts Student
2018 November Bolton University 2nd & 3rd year & MA Fine Arts Students
2017 August Dr Lee Campbell - Vision Impairment presented ‘A New Vision when the Mind Hears’ video The Brady Arts Centre, London
October Intimate, Isherwood Gallery, Old Courts, Wigan
July Manifest Arts , MIF, HOME, Manchester
June Bolton University 2nd year Fine Arts Students
2015 Dementia, Arts for Health at Manchester Metropolitan University
CDP 2018 November POPH65011 Residential 1st Semester, MA Arts and Public Health, Manchester University
Public Engagement/Workshops
2019 May-July ‘Walkie Talkie Wigan’ Hindley Library, Wigan Council Funding
April - March 2020 ‘Journal of Journeys’ Creative Companion, Tonge Moor Carers, CVS funding
2018 November Corduroy part 2, community group visit to Neo:gallery23
2018 October Wigan & Leigh Light Night Festival Video installation & 3 family workshops
July Festival of Ageing, ‘Celebration Selfie’ workshop
July Festival of Ageing, ‘Creating Sunshine’ NHS Memory Assessment Team, Dementia/Carers
April-May ‘Hands On’ Air-dried Clay with Bolton Cares commissioned by Making Changes and CVS funding
February ‘Love Clay’ Bolton at Homes Community Investment Grant
2017 February-April ‘Life Story’ Project commissioned by Making Changes (Bolton at Home) and AGE UK ‘Ambition for Ageing’ at Thicketford Day Care Centre, Bolton. (Scrap-booking workshops engaging with Service Users, some of whom are living with dementia)
August-October ‘Gelli-printmaking' commissioned by Making Changes (Bolton at Home) and AGE UK ‘Ambition for Ageing’ at Greenway Community Centre
2016 August -December R-Age A Definition of Love, Project commissioned by The Heart of Glass, St Helens
(Collaboration with artists Alison Kershaw and Another Adele working, delivering a series of workshops with people living with Dementia, culminating in a final exhibition)
2016 August Gallery tour/workshop at neo:print prize 2016 with Bolton at Home service users
2015 November City Arcadia, Artspace, Coventry
2015 Photography Project at Greenway Community Centre and Hall i’ th’ Wood Museum
2015 ‘Junk Sculpture’ (Fusion Community Group, Bolton)
2015 Scrapbooking (Golden Oldies and Bolton at Home)
2015 Breaktivity (Children/Parents and Bolton at Home)
Publications 2018 Contemporary Art blog by Jenny Drinkwater Catherall
http://www.jennydrinkwater.co.uk/portfolio/sandra-bouguerch-artist-winner-of-air-award-and-waterside-open-2018/
2018 June Corridor8, Interface by Bob Dickinson, http://www.corridor8.co.uk/article/interface/
2016 August Second Degree Potentias, by Bob Dickinson
2016 March Lydia Lunch presents From the Page to the Stage, a Samarbeta Residency
Islington Mill, https://samarbeta.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-page-to-the-stage
2014 June, Les Femmes Folles - Women in Art, on-line Interview curated by Sally Deskins
http://femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com/search/sandra+bouguerch
March Annabelle Boko Operatoranna, Chance Encounters #21, on-line Interview
CORDUROY Part 2 - International Exchange Exhibition
Bolton neo:artists welcome Stockholm artists in International Exchange Exhibition
A group of artists from the thriving artist-led organisation neo:artists in Bolton, is hosting the second part of an International Exchange Exhibition with Studio44, a group of Swedish artists, based in Stockholm.
The exchange was the inspiration of Bethan Hamilton, a member of neo:artists who was living in Stockholm and based at Studio44 in the city centre. The selected artists from both groups were excited by the opportunity of collaborating in a dynamic sharing of creative ideas, research and practical artworks. They were invited to explore the question: What does it mean to live in a post-industrial northern town or city in this tumultuous time? How, as artists and European citizens, do they interact with the physical environment and what impact does this have on the larger world?
The exhibition promises some intriguing new works and draws from personal and universal concerns about identity, the environment, consumerism, language and place in relation to the questions posed. It considers the past, present and future through historic art practices such as oil painting, drawing, printmaking and embroidery to modern day video, digital photography, installation and performance.
Participating Artists:
Alyson J Barton, Sandra Bouguerch, Mariana Ekner, Louise Garman, Emma Göransson, Christina Göthesson, Bethan Hamilton, Maggie Hargreaves, Suzanne Harulow, Susanne Högdahl Holm, Geraldine Hudson, Thaleia Kavvada, Brian Neish, Helena Norell, Angela O’Mara, Steph Shipley, Nina Wedberg Thulin & Denis Whiteside.
neo:gallery23
The Market Place
Bolton
BL1 2AL
Thursday to Sunday
11am - 5pm
Free admission
Fully accessible
A group of artists from the thriving artist-led organisation neo:artists in Bolton, is hosting the second part of an International Exchange Exhibition with Studio44, a group of Swedish artists, based in Stockholm.
The exchange was the inspiration of Bethan Hamilton, a member of neo:artists who was living in Stockholm and based at Studio44 in the city centre. The selected artists from both groups were excited by the opportunity of collaborating in a dynamic sharing of creative ideas, research and practical artworks. They were invited to explore the question: What does it mean to live in a post-industrial northern town or city in this tumultuous time? How, as artists and European citizens, do they interact with the physical environment and what impact does this have on the larger world?
The exhibition promises some intriguing new works and draws from personal and universal concerns about identity, the environment, consumerism, language and place in relation to the questions posed. It considers the past, present and future through historic art practices such as oil painting, drawing, printmaking and embroidery to modern day video, digital photography, installation and performance.
Participating Artists:
Alyson J Barton, Sandra Bouguerch, Mariana Ekner, Louise Garman, Emma Göransson, Christina Göthesson, Bethan Hamilton, Maggie Hargreaves, Suzanne Harulow, Susanne Högdahl Holm, Geraldine Hudson, Thaleia Kavvada, Brian Neish, Helena Norell, Angela O’Mara, Steph Shipley, Nina Wedberg Thulin & Denis Whiteside.
neo:gallery23
The Market Place
Bolton
BL1 2AL
Thursday to Sunday
11am - 5pm
Free admission
Fully accessible
TIME is Love Screening at EX-NEW Contemporary Art Centre in Milan.
Giornale di Monza (Italy) publication features Time is Love11.
My Video IM-Print is currently touring with
Time is Love International Video Art Programme.Established in 2008 by curator Kisito Assangni, TIME is Love Screening has travelled to major cities around the world exploring the theme of love in hard times and bringing every year a refreshing perspective on video art. TIME is Love Screening aims to offer spectators a selection of works through which they can examine various artistic approaches and discover both the contrasts stemming from differences in cultural context as well as the common features due to the increasing globalisation of the art world. The program hopes to encourage the audience to reflect on the normative understanding of relationships in our modern society.
My Video IM-Print is currently touring with
Time is Love International Video Art Programme.Established in 2008 by curator Kisito Assangni, TIME is Love Screening has travelled to major cities around the world exploring the theme of love in hard times and bringing every year a refreshing perspective on video art. TIME is Love Screening aims to offer spectators a selection of works through which they can examine various artistic approaches and discover both the contrasts stemming from differences in cultural context as well as the common features due to the increasing globalisation of the art world. The program hopes to encourage the audience to reflect on the normative understanding of relationships in our modern society.
Self and Other at neo:gallery23
About Self and Other
The notion that ‘black implies white, self implies other and death implies life’ is a dualistic take on human existence explored by Alan Watts (philosopher and theologian) in his extensive writing. This exhibition takes these ideas as its starting point, with particular reference to the relationship we have with ourselves, the need for solitude and social interaction that are often in a state of constant flux and dissonance. What is it that happens when we jump into the swimming pool of existence? This metaphor has been used by another philosopher Merleau-Ponty. We can hold ourselves back from participating for whatever reason we may have, and this forms another point of departure for our responses.
Human beings only ever engage by diving into the pool and swimming about. You can hold yourself separate, but this may be the result of blockage, trauma or choice. Existence is am immersive experience of the flesh in all our days and lives. This exhibition explores individuals’ responses to this notion. To extend the swimming pool metaphor even further, we subject ourselves to the experience of living with impaired hearing as if underwater. Our existence is always with our ‘encounter’ and ‘experience’ of the world. In the relationship between ‘self’ and ‘other’ we are in a constant state of ‘becoming’.
The binary nature of interaction which is often facilitated through the digital world and the changing nature of culture is also explored. This notion of dualistic response is also reflected in that the participants are equally divided between male and female creatives. This mirrors the nature of the proposal itself. Exploration of Bachelard’s ‘Poetics of Space’ is explored, as it also references the phenomenological nature of immersive existence, memory and how it resonates within us as we evolve as human beings. Essentially the idea of holding oneself apart or not, and how these choices affect our lives, is at the core of this exhibition, which is especially interesting as we negotiate our relationship with technology in this day and age.
The notion that ‘black implies white, self implies other and death implies life’ is a dualistic take on human existence explored by Alan Watts (philosopher and theologian) in his extensive writing. This exhibition takes these ideas as its starting point, with particular reference to the relationship we have with ourselves, the need for solitude and social interaction that are often in a state of constant flux and dissonance. What is it that happens when we jump into the swimming pool of existence? This metaphor has been used by another philosopher Merleau-Ponty. We can hold ourselves back from participating for whatever reason we may have, and this forms another point of departure for our responses.
Human beings only ever engage by diving into the pool and swimming about. You can hold yourself separate, but this may be the result of blockage, trauma or choice. Existence is am immersive experience of the flesh in all our days and lives. This exhibition explores individuals’ responses to this notion. To extend the swimming pool metaphor even further, we subject ourselves to the experience of living with impaired hearing as if underwater. Our existence is always with our ‘encounter’ and ‘experience’ of the world. In the relationship between ‘self’ and ‘other’ we are in a constant state of ‘becoming’.
The binary nature of interaction which is often facilitated through the digital world and the changing nature of culture is also explored. This notion of dualistic response is also reflected in that the participants are equally divided between male and female creatives. This mirrors the nature of the proposal itself. Exploration of Bachelard’s ‘Poetics of Space’ is explored, as it also references the phenomenological nature of immersive existence, memory and how it resonates within us as we evolve as human beings. Essentially the idea of holding oneself apart or not, and how these choices affect our lives, is at the core of this exhibition, which is especially interesting as we negotiate our relationship with technology in this day and age.
Self and Other - Group Exhibition
https://selfandotherexhibition.wordpress.com
https://selfandotherexhibition.wordpress.com/sandra-bouguerch/
‘Put to Bed’ is an installation exploring the emotional, mental and physical states of living in a world of continual conflicting uncertainty.
https://selfandotherexhibition.wordpress.com/sandra-bouguerch/
‘Put to Bed’ is an installation exploring the emotional, mental and physical states of living in a world of continual conflicting uncertainty.
Judges for Air Open 2018
Sandra Bouguerch- Multi-Award winning Artist,
Louise Garman- Artist and associate of Cross Street Arts and
Amid Asadi- Winner of the AIR Open 2017.
The AIR Open 2018 is open to visual artists from across the globe working in any artistic medium. We are seeking variety within our submissions. There are no restrictions on the type of work that can be entered, all we ask is that work must be contemporary and have stimulating and relevant themes.
The exhibition will run from the 10th August – 29th September 2018, with a launch night on the evening of Thursday 9th August and an awards ceremony on the evening of Saturday 29th September.
https://www.airgallery.space/current
The exhibition will run from the 10th August – 29th September 2018, with a launch night on the evening of Thursday 9th August and an awards ceremony on the evening of Saturday 29th September.
https://www.airgallery.space/current
‘Mugs'
‘Mugs’ responds to Internet dating’s playful and serious interactions which can be fun, depressing and also destructive. Ultimately, risk and apprehension are involved in our human desire for connection. At the push of the ENTER key raw emotions, and the energetic bursts of ‘YES, NO, MAYBE and NEXT’ flash thorough one’s mind.
Mugs, by Sandra Bouguerch, is exactly that: a pair of one-pint mugs, which you are encouraged to look inside, with the aid of a magnifier and some LED lights you wear over your head. Forewarned that the work is a comment on internet dating, you find yourself staring at graphics taken from websites and the nagging phrase that probably haunts the minds of many users: “Want to meet him?”
Quote by Bob Dickinson
Bob is a freelance writer and programme producer, based in Manchester.
Mugs, by Sandra Bouguerch, is exactly that: a pair of one-pint mugs, which you are encouraged to look inside, with the aid of a magnifier and some LED lights you wear over your head. Forewarned that the work is a comment on internet dating, you find yourself staring at graphics taken from websites and the nagging phrase that probably haunts the minds of many users: “Want to meet him?”
Quote by Bob Dickinson
Bob is a freelance writer and programme producer, based in Manchester.
INTERFACE - 23 Artists exhibition
The exhibition has been organised and curated by three neo:associates, Lucie Wilson, Sandra Bouguerch and Sume Leyden.
IMAGE Eric Pickersgill, ’Angie and Me’ from the ‘Removed’ series Pigment print from large format negative
IMAGE Eric Pickersgill, ’Angie and Me’ from the ‘Removed’ series Pigment print from large format negative
INTERFACE Exhibition
neo:gallery23, The Market Place, Bolton BL1 2AL
31st March – 20th May
Thursday – Sunday 11am – 5pm
Free Admission – Gallery is fully accessible
neo:studios is pleased to present a pioneering exhibition of contemporary art, which explores the impact of technology on our daily physical and social environment and on visual culture in general.
The original meaning of the word ‘interface’ is a boundary between two entities, such as a cell wall or human skin, but is now most commonly associated with the means of communication between ourselves and the technology we depend on. Digital interfaces have become such an integral part of our lives, that they are often taken for granted. By focusing on ‘interfaces’ as the subject, rather than purely as conveyors of information, the exhibition aims to initiate a dialogue about the ways they represent reality and directly influence our understanding of the world.
The exhibition has been organised and curated by three neo:associates, Lucie Wilson, Sandra Bouguerch and Sume Leyden, who have invited a diverse group of 23 regional, national and international artists to work creatively around their personal interpretation of the theme. Sandra says: ‘The artists responded to the invitation with tremendous enthusiasm and ingenuity.’ Visitors to the exhibition will find an eclectic mix of exhibits, from interactive mirrors which turn to face the viewer, virtual reality installations, futuristic animations and sound pieces, as well as paintings, videos and 3D artworks.
American artist Eric Pickersgill has contributed a series of photographs which feature people in a range of day-to day situations, seemingly engrossed in their smartphones. On closer inspection, we see that the devices have been removed from their hands. Eric says: ‘The making of the photograph operates as a way of disrupting the isolation I feel from strangers, who barricade themselves behind their technology. This exchange creates new relationships, while is also asking the viewer to question their own device habits. I am excited by the way the viewer fills in the device at first look. It is as if the device has become one with the body and can be seen when not present.’
Other artists included are Alastair Peat, Ashokkumar D Mistry, Bex Ilsley, Carolyn Curtis-Magri, Elliot Brown, Guli Silberstein, Helen Wheeler, Henry/Bragg, Dr Jacqueline Wylie, Janette Byrne, Keith Brown, Liliana Robins, Louise Garman, Oliver Blight, Paul Turnock, Said Afifi, Sally A Hayes, Tess Baxter and Zlatko Cosic
A series of artist’s talks will be staged throughout the duration of the exhibition and a catalogue containing images, artists’ statements and critical writing will be available for sale.
31st March – 20th May
Thursday – Sunday 11am – 5pm
Free Admission – Gallery is fully accessible
neo:studios is pleased to present a pioneering exhibition of contemporary art, which explores the impact of technology on our daily physical and social environment and on visual culture in general.
The original meaning of the word ‘interface’ is a boundary between two entities, such as a cell wall or human skin, but is now most commonly associated with the means of communication between ourselves and the technology we depend on. Digital interfaces have become such an integral part of our lives, that they are often taken for granted. By focusing on ‘interfaces’ as the subject, rather than purely as conveyors of information, the exhibition aims to initiate a dialogue about the ways they represent reality and directly influence our understanding of the world.
The exhibition has been organised and curated by three neo:associates, Lucie Wilson, Sandra Bouguerch and Sume Leyden, who have invited a diverse group of 23 regional, national and international artists to work creatively around their personal interpretation of the theme. Sandra says: ‘The artists responded to the invitation with tremendous enthusiasm and ingenuity.’ Visitors to the exhibition will find an eclectic mix of exhibits, from interactive mirrors which turn to face the viewer, virtual reality installations, futuristic animations and sound pieces, as well as paintings, videos and 3D artworks.
American artist Eric Pickersgill has contributed a series of photographs which feature people in a range of day-to day situations, seemingly engrossed in their smartphones. On closer inspection, we see that the devices have been removed from their hands. Eric says: ‘The making of the photograph operates as a way of disrupting the isolation I feel from strangers, who barricade themselves behind their technology. This exchange creates new relationships, while is also asking the viewer to question their own device habits. I am excited by the way the viewer fills in the device at first look. It is as if the device has become one with the body and can be seen when not present.’
Other artists included are Alastair Peat, Ashokkumar D Mistry, Bex Ilsley, Carolyn Curtis-Magri, Elliot Brown, Guli Silberstein, Helen Wheeler, Henry/Bragg, Dr Jacqueline Wylie, Janette Byrne, Keith Brown, Liliana Robins, Louise Garman, Oliver Blight, Paul Turnock, Said Afifi, Sally A Hayes, Tess Baxter and Zlatko Cosic
A series of artist’s talks will be staged throughout the duration of the exhibition and a catalogue containing images, artists’ statements and critical writing will be available for sale.
TIME is Love.11 [Show 4] 3rd-6th May 2018
‘IM-PRINT’ screened along with other selected international artists at EX-NEW CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER, Via Alessandro Manzoni, 9/A Sulbiate (MB), Milano – Italy
Established in 2008 by curator Kisito Assangni, TIME is Love Screening has travelled to major cities around the world exploring the theme of love in hard times and bringing every year a refreshing perspective on video art.
TIME is Love Screening aims to offer spectators a selection of works through which they can examine various artistic approaches and discover both the contrasts stemming from differences in cultural context as well as the common features due to the increasing globalisation of the art world. The program hopes to encourage the audience to reflect on the normative understanding of relationships in our modern society.
Guided tours for schools with the historian of art Emanuela Scalabrin.
Established in 2008 by curator Kisito Assangni, TIME is Love Screening has travelled to major cities around the world exploring the theme of love in hard times and bringing every year a refreshing perspective on video art.
TIME is Love Screening aims to offer spectators a selection of works through which they can examine various artistic approaches and discover both the contrasts stemming from differences in cultural context as well as the common features due to the increasing globalisation of the art world. The program hopes to encourage the audience to reflect on the normative understanding of relationships in our modern society.
Guided tours for schools with the historian of art Emanuela Scalabrin.
TIME is Love.11 [Show 3]
‘IM-PRINT’ featured along with other selected international artists.
Established in 2008 by curator Kisito Assangni, TIME is Love Screening has travelled to major cities around the world exploring the theme of love in hard times and bringing every year a refreshing perspective on video art.
TIME is Love Screening aims to offer spectators a selection of works through which they can examine various artistic approaches and discover both the contrasts stemming from differences in cultural context as well as the common features due to the increasing globalisation of the art world. The program hopes to encourage the audience to reflect on the normative understanding of relationships in our modern society.
24- 28th April 2018, Casablanca International Video Art Festival, Morocco
Established in 2008 by curator Kisito Assangni, TIME is Love Screening has travelled to major cities around the world exploring the theme of love in hard times and bringing every year a refreshing perspective on video art.
TIME is Love Screening aims to offer spectators a selection of works through which they can examine various artistic approaches and discover both the contrasts stemming from differences in cultural context as well as the common features due to the increasing globalisation of the art world. The program hopes to encourage the audience to reflect on the normative understanding of relationships in our modern society.
24- 28th April 2018, Casablanca International Video Art Festival, Morocco
TIME is Love Screening - international video art program
TIME is Love.11 [Show 2]
31st March 2018 CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts
350 Sauchiehall St
GLASGOW - UK
www.cca-glasgow.com
www.timeisloveshow.org Featuring:
Albert Bayona, Angelina Voskopoulou, Anupong Charoenmitr, Céline Trouillet, Cristina Picchi, Dee Hood, Djibril Drame, Erick Tapia, Frederico Evaristo, Helina Metaferia, Hiroya Sakurai, Iloisa Fortes, Irina Gabiani, Isabel Pérez Del Pulgar, Isidora Ficovic, Jennida Chase, Joas Nebe, Kokou Ekouagou, Lisa Birke, Laura Celada, Magdalena Zeisel, Mauricio Sáenz, Matilde De Feo, Maya Schweizer, Mohamed Thara, Michael Macgarry, Przemek Węgrzyn, Rrose Present, Salvatore Insana, Sandra Bouguerch, Sandrine Deumier, Sarah Bliss, Soar Soaring-Words, Susanne Wiegner, Tom Skipp, Tushar Waghela, Vijay Raghavan, Yassine Balzioui.
http://www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/time-is-love-screening-international-video-art-program
WATERSIDE OPEN 2018
Sandra Bouguerch – ‘Tarred’ Very pleased to have been selected for this National Open exhibition.
THU 15 MAR – SAT 19 MAY
The Waterside Open returns for the sixth time. This exhibition showcases a wide range of high quality and contemporary art, craft and design from established and emerging artists, designers and makers from the North West and across the UK.
The exhibition preview takes place on Wednesday 14 March at 18:15 when all winners will be announced and prizes awarded from 18:30.
The final selected works and artists for the show are as follows:
Catherine Bell – Hide and Seek
Suzanne Bethell – Pink
Lynne Bingham – Cloud
Patrick Blagbrough – Stoneware Stare
Sandra Bouguerch – Tarred
Julie Bunter – Linear Collections of a Curious Mind
Robert Burgess – Contretemps
John Burks – Praesul
Franziska Carter – Untitled
Nan Collantine – Untitled
Joanne Coulthard – Dark seascape
Kate Davies – Pole and Posts
Kate Downes – Tatton: From the Allen Hide
Carol Duhaney – Prince In All His Glory
Sue Dunbar – Five Moreton Timbers
David Dunnico – Up/Down Open/Close
Mabel Edwards – Piebald
Sarah Feinmann – Shave Farm Remembered
Peter Goldberg – Moonlit Vigil
Serena Hammill – Aleksey Pisemsky
Clare Harford – Strange Tree
Steven Heelham – Film Still
Angela Herd Hall – The bus leaves in 5 minutes
Angela Herd Hall – When I Win…
Norman Herringshaw – The Legend of Skyflower Meadow
Charles Hickson – Summer Mill
Patrick Jones – Finding Errwood Hall
George Meyrick – C + C (Aligned) II
Julia Milns – Annunciation I – Volcano
Hifumi Ogasahara – Night On Earth: Hoi An, Vietnam
Gwendolen Osmond – La Danse Des Possessions
Robert Preston – Eggs on Board
Jayne Pellington – Ferry Across…
Michael Raithby – Manchester Skyline
Hazel Roberts – Extra curricula
Hazel Roberts – Why Study Art?
Susy Robson – La Chapelle St. Aman
Alison Scott – The Nana
Luca Shaw – Given Space
Sara Stabb – Lucy With the Gold Bag
Steve Talbot – Mr and Mrs Poe
Maurice Taylor – Voyage of the Magi
Mark Thompson – Woodland Crows
Mark Thompson – Crossroad
Jane Walker – Adam and Eve in Stockport Station
Pat Wilkinson – Sale Station Sunbather
THU 15 MAR – SAT 19 MAY
The Waterside Open returns for the sixth time. This exhibition showcases a wide range of high quality and contemporary art, craft and design from established and emerging artists, designers and makers from the North West and across the UK.
The exhibition preview takes place on Wednesday 14 March at 18:15 when all winners will be announced and prizes awarded from 18:30.
The final selected works and artists for the show are as follows:
Catherine Bell – Hide and Seek
Suzanne Bethell – Pink
Lynne Bingham – Cloud
Patrick Blagbrough – Stoneware Stare
Sandra Bouguerch – Tarred
Julie Bunter – Linear Collections of a Curious Mind
Robert Burgess – Contretemps
John Burks – Praesul
Franziska Carter – Untitled
Nan Collantine – Untitled
Joanne Coulthard – Dark seascape
Kate Davies – Pole and Posts
Kate Downes – Tatton: From the Allen Hide
Carol Duhaney – Prince In All His Glory
Sue Dunbar – Five Moreton Timbers
David Dunnico – Up/Down Open/Close
Mabel Edwards – Piebald
Sarah Feinmann – Shave Farm Remembered
Peter Goldberg – Moonlit Vigil
Serena Hammill – Aleksey Pisemsky
Clare Harford – Strange Tree
Steven Heelham – Film Still
Angela Herd Hall – The bus leaves in 5 minutes
Angela Herd Hall – When I Win…
Norman Herringshaw – The Legend of Skyflower Meadow
Charles Hickson – Summer Mill
Patrick Jones – Finding Errwood Hall
George Meyrick – C + C (Aligned) II
Julia Milns – Annunciation I – Volcano
Hifumi Ogasahara – Night On Earth: Hoi An, Vietnam
Gwendolen Osmond – La Danse Des Possessions
Robert Preston – Eggs on Board
Jayne Pellington – Ferry Across…
Michael Raithby – Manchester Skyline
Hazel Roberts – Extra curricula
Hazel Roberts – Why Study Art?
Susy Robson – La Chapelle St. Aman
Alison Scott – The Nana
Luca Shaw – Given Space
Sara Stabb – Lucy With the Gold Bag
Steve Talbot – Mr and Mrs Poe
Maurice Taylor – Voyage of the Magi
Mark Thompson – Woodland Crows
Mark Thompson – Crossroad
Jane Walker – Adam and Eve in Stockport Station
Pat Wilkinson – Sale Station Sunbather
TIME is Love Screening – 11th Edition
Selected for this touring International video exhibition which was established in 2008 by curator Kisito Assangni. TIME is Love Screening has travelled to major cities around the world exploring the theme of love in hard times and bringing every year a refreshing perspective on video art.
31st March 2018
TIME is Love.11 [Show 2] CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, GLASGOW UK
17th-24th February 2018
TIME is Love.11 [Show 1] Lily Agius Gallery, 54 Cathedral Street, Sliema – MALTA
TIME is Love Screening aims to offer spectators a selection of works through which they can examine various artistic approaches and discover both the contrasts stemming from differences in cultural context as well as the common features due to the increasing globalisation of the art world. The program hopes to encourage the audience to reflect on the normative understanding of relationships in our modern society.
31st March 2018
TIME is Love.11 [Show 2] CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, GLASGOW UK
17th-24th February 2018
TIME is Love.11 [Show 1] Lily Agius Gallery, 54 Cathedral Street, Sliema – MALTA
TIME is Love Screening aims to offer spectators a selection of works through which they can examine various artistic approaches and discover both the contrasts stemming from differences in cultural context as well as the common features due to the increasing globalisation of the art world. The program hopes to encourage the audience to reflect on the normative understanding of relationships in our modern society.
Fe/Male Exhibition at AIR Gallery
Selected for Fe/Male a ‘Gender’ themed exhibition taking place at AIR which is a contemporary gallery and exhibition space showcasing emerging and early career artists; bringing cultural diversity and international collaboration of the arts within the local community.
AIR Gallery grass-roots programme focuses on providing a platform for artists starting out or in the early stages of their career. Aim is to provide opportunities for experimentation and exposure through exhibitions, events and residency schemes.
The gallery has a structured exhibition programme which will include annual open exhibitions, outreach programmes and opportunities for existing local artists and art groups. By hosting regular exhibitions, we hope to increase the awareness and education of the arts in the local area.
AIR Gallery grass-roots programme focuses on providing a platform for artists starting out or in the early stages of their career. Aim is to provide opportunities for experimentation and exposure through exhibitions, events and residency schemes.
The gallery has a structured exhibition programme which will include annual open exhibitions, outreach programmes and opportunities for existing local artists and art groups. By hosting regular exhibitions, we hope to increase the awareness and education of the arts in the local area.
Birth Rites Collection – Exhibition 2018
Pleased to have been selected to take part in The Birth Rites Collection which is the first and only collection of contemporary artwork dedicated to the subject of childbirth. The collection currently comprises of photography, sculpture, painting, wallpaper, drawing, new media, documentary and experimental film. It is hosted by the Department of Midwifery in King’s College, London which is part of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care.
http://www.birthritescollection.org.uk
http://www.birthritescollection.org.uk
INTIMATE - group exhibition
‘Intimate’ brings together a range of artists working in painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, digital art and installation.
Drink and Draw / Curators Talk: Intimate
Bailiff Bar // Doors open 7.00pm
Wed, 11 Oct 2017 // £3 Advance // £3.50 On the Door
A drink and draw session with a bit of a twist!
Join us for an informal guided tour of the exhibition ‘Intimate’ in the Isherwood Gallery at 7.20pm. Several of the artists in the show, including shakesmyteeth, Michael Orrell and Sandra Bouguerch, will be on hand to chat about their work with curator Martyn Lucas and answer your questions. This will be a fascinating insight into this specially curated exhibition which features 20 artists from the North-West and London.
This is followed by a ‘Drink & Draw’ at 8.20pm in the Bailiff Bar, led by the curators. Having been inspired by the exhibition upstairs, we invite you to create your own hand-made autobiographical and ‘intimate’ sketchbook!
Over 18's only
Drink and Draw / Curators Talk: Intimate
Bailiff Bar // Doors open 7.00pm
Wed, 11 Oct 2017 // £3 Advance // £3.50 On the Door
A drink and draw session with a bit of a twist!
Join us for an informal guided tour of the exhibition ‘Intimate’ in the Isherwood Gallery at 7.20pm. Several of the artists in the show, including shakesmyteeth, Michael Orrell and Sandra Bouguerch, will be on hand to chat about their work with curator Martyn Lucas and answer your questions. This will be a fascinating insight into this specially curated exhibition which features 20 artists from the North-West and London.
This is followed by a ‘Drink & Draw’ at 8.20pm in the Bailiff Bar, led by the curators. Having been inspired by the exhibition upstairs, we invite you to create your own hand-made autobiographical and ‘intimate’ sketchbook!
Over 18's only
Room to View – Group Exhibition
NEO:ARTISTS @ NEW MILLS FESTIVAL – PART OF THE BIG WEEKENDProvidence Church, Mellor Road, SK22 4DP Sat 23 & Sun 24 11am-4pm
PROVIDENCE UNITED REFORM CHURCH (VENUE 21)https://www.newmillsfestival.com/neoartists-new-mills-festival
An exciting display of contemporary art, including painting, drawing, installation, printmaking and film, from selected artists based at neo:studios Bolton – an artist led, not-for-profit organisation founded to aid the development of creative practitioners. Donna Dowd, Susan Sydall, Sandra Bouguerch, Julie Levy, Jason Simpson, Louise Garman, Maggie Hargreaves, Angela O’Mara, Andy Smith and neo:artprize 2012 Finalist Naomi Kendrick
PROVIDENCE UNITED REFORM CHURCH (VENUE 21)https://www.newmillsfestival.com/neoartists-new-mills-festival
An exciting display of contemporary art, including painting, drawing, installation, printmaking and film, from selected artists based at neo:studios Bolton – an artist led, not-for-profit organisation founded to aid the development of creative practitioners. Donna Dowd, Susan Sydall, Sandra Bouguerch, Julie Levy, Jason Simpson, Louise Garman, Maggie Hargreaves, Angela O’Mara, Andy Smith and neo:artprize 2012 Finalist Naomi Kendrick
Selected words credited to Dorothy Parker, from the poem ‘The Little Hours'
SET II At Unit 3 Projects ASC Studio, London
SET II
Art Exhibition
Saturday 5th August 2017
11-9pm
At Unit 3 Projects
ASC Studio, Epson Street, London E3 3LT
Art Exhibition
Saturday 5th August 2017
11-9pm
At Unit 3 Projects
ASC Studio, Epson Street, London E3 3LT
Set 2 is a ten day joint venture by Indian artist Jose Pindian and British artist Sandra Bouguerch. They are collaborating with societal concerns on a global scale by integrating their ideas and arts practice, to develop new work within current fragmented society in these troublesome times.
Outcomes will be presented on Saturday 5th August 2017.
Sandra Bouguerch is an interdisciplinary artist who uses video, installation and performance to investigate discomfort, sexuality, need and the human desire for connection. She is based at Neo:artists studios in Bolton, Greater Manchester.
http://sandrabouguerch.weebly.com
https://vimeo.com/bouguerch
Jose Pindian is painter and installation artist. His work is a response to a fragmented society, by looking into the gap between the communities; the division has created by religion, politics and wealth. His attempt is to find allure in the time of disharmony.
www.josepindian.com
Outcomes will be presented on Saturday 5th August 2017.
Sandra Bouguerch is an interdisciplinary artist who uses video, installation and performance to investigate discomfort, sexuality, need and the human desire for connection. She is based at Neo:artists studios in Bolton, Greater Manchester.
http://sandrabouguerch.weebly.com
https://vimeo.com/bouguerch
Jose Pindian is painter and installation artist. His work is a response to a fragmented society, by looking into the gap between the communities; the division has created by religion, politics and wealth. His attempt is to find allure in the time of disharmony.
www.josepindian.com
‘Small World’ PS Mirabel Open Exhibition 7th July 2017
Facebook Mutual Friends it's a Small World.
‘My World 918 and Growing’ is a video response to the SMALL WORLD Open call exhibition at PS Mirabel, Manchester.
It is a comment on how we are connected via social media, having many mutual friends from all over the world. Facebook is for many a large part of their lives and has a positive and negative effect on people's wellbeing, for some even an obsession/addiction. It is a good way of staying connected and up to date on individuals events and life styles and acts as a social melting pot especially for people who struggle to get out and about to meet new friends. Or it can be viewed as a worldwide distraction and time wasted.
You can be blocked or unfriended at any point and maybe make you SAD.
‘My World 918 and Growing’ is a video response to the SMALL WORLD Open call exhibition at PS Mirabel, Manchester.
It is a comment on how we are connected via social media, having many mutual friends from all over the world. Facebook is for many a large part of their lives and has a positive and negative effect on people's wellbeing, for some even an obsession/addiction. It is a good way of staying connected and up to date on individuals events and life styles and acts as a social melting pot especially for people who struggle to get out and about to meet new friends. Or it can be viewed as a worldwide distraction and time wasted.
You can be blocked or unfriended at any point and maybe make you SAD.
‘Small World’ PS Mirabel Open Exhibition 7th July 2017
Very pleased it’s been selected for the PS Mirabel Open ‘Small World’. It took me many days to create and my eyes went blurred at one point.
‘My World 918 and Growing’ is based on all mutual friends on Facebook, over last 2 weeks I’m now at 942,
it’s a Small World.
‘My World 918 and Growing’ is a video response to the ‘SMALL WORLD’ Open call exhibition at PS Mirabel, Manchester.
It is a comment on how we are connected via social media, having many mutual friends from all over the world. Facebook is for many a large part of their lives and has a positive and negative effect on people’s wellbeing, for some even an obsession/addiction. It is a good way of staying connected and up to date on individuals events and life styles and acts as a social melting pot especially for people who struggle to get out and about to meet new friends. Or it can be viewed as a worldwide distraction and time wasted. You can be blocked or unfriended at any point and maybe make you SAD.
The exhibition preview is on the 7th July from 6pm-9pm and is open every Saturday 11am-5pm until the 12th August.
The winners will be announced at a special event on the last Saturday 12th August.
‘My World 918 and Growing’ is based on all mutual friends on Facebook, over last 2 weeks I’m now at 942,
it’s a Small World.
‘My World 918 and Growing’ is a video response to the ‘SMALL WORLD’ Open call exhibition at PS Mirabel, Manchester.
It is a comment on how we are connected via social media, having many mutual friends from all over the world. Facebook is for many a large part of their lives and has a positive and negative effect on people’s wellbeing, for some even an obsession/addiction. It is a good way of staying connected and up to date on individuals events and life styles and acts as a social melting pot especially for people who struggle to get out and about to meet new friends. Or it can be viewed as a worldwide distraction and time wasted. You can be blocked or unfriended at any point and maybe make you SAD.
The exhibition preview is on the 7th July from 6pm-9pm and is open every Saturday 11am-5pm until the 12th August.
The winners will be announced at a special event on the last Saturday 12th August.
Residencies for IMPOSE||LIFT
We are pleased to announce the first round of resident artists for our curatorship of The Curfew Tower.
Artists will undertake residencies for IMPOSE||LIFT exploring their situation to the tower and the surrounding town of Cushendall considering themes of restriction and liberation of action and in action.
We will be sharing more about each artists in coming weeks.
Our first resident artist is Sandra Bouguerch who will be exploring experiences in life comparable to being physically situated in a tower.
Followed by Sophie Cooper who will be taking the chance to collaborate with Natalia Beylis from Woven Skull / Hunters Moon Fest and inviting locals to an open house.
Follow #TheCurfewTower17 #ImposeLift
Impose||Lift is supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts.
Artists will undertake residencies for IMPOSE||LIFT exploring their situation to the tower and the surrounding town of Cushendall considering themes of restriction and liberation of action and in action.
We will be sharing more about each artists in coming weeks.
Our first resident artist is Sandra Bouguerch who will be exploring experiences in life comparable to being physically situated in a tower.
Followed by Sophie Cooper who will be taking the chance to collaborate with Natalia Beylis from Woven Skull / Hunters Moon Fest and inviting locals to an open house.
Follow #TheCurfewTower17 #ImposeLift
Impose||Lift is supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts.
‘Penrose’ is an impossible tribal on display @TheatreBolton
1st Open Art Competition.
Preview April 2nd at 2.00pm at Bolton Little Theatre to accompany a new production ‘The Earthly Paradise’ by Peter Whelan
‘Roll with It’ Video screened at FILM FOCUS: Interviews and Interventions
Film focus: Interviews and Interventions
Thursday 16 March, 6 – 7pm Screening of my video ‘Roll with it’ that explores the connection between at and psychology through pain and experience. https://vimeo.com/209071288 In the first of our Film focus events we showcase the film work of local artists and students. The screening will include documentation of CFCCA’s recent events and exhibitions; the results of a partnership project between CFCCA and students from Manchester School of Art and University of Salford, who were invited to make short films about CFCCA’s programme. The films will feature artist interviews, live event documentation and short artist video works. Join us for an informal evening celebrating local and emerging film talent. |
Hard Focus Photography Exhibition
LAZARUS, photographic image printed onto Brushed Aluminium and mounted onto oak. The subject is my late father who championed my artistic career and taken 4 days after he died. I applied gold leaf to his left eye as a symbol of esteem.
Organised by Nightlight Darkroom, Hard Focus: The Physicality of Photography is a half-day symposium examining the position of tactile, physical images taking up space in a tech-complex, claustrophobic world.
The city of paper-pasted billboards has become rebooted with a number of immersive digital LED screens displaying slideshows of ice-white teeth, wish you were here beaches and crisp-edged condensation on bottled water. Images have become slimlined, squeezed and boxed-in to a series of pixels, of zeros and ones viewed on glitchy, fragile devices. There are plenty more images in the ether than ever before, yet the physical experience of photographic material could be in danger of being permanently ripped down and digitally replaced from the gallery space, in the same way that the family snap storing ritual of mounting glossy moments in leather-bound family albums has been abandoned.
Confirmed speakers:
Peter Kennard
Peter Kennard is a London born and based photomontage artist and Senior Research Reader in Photography, Art and the Public Domain at the Royal College of Art. He is Britain’s foremost political artist and has been at the cutting edge of global political image making since the Vietnam War. Unofficial War Artist, the first major retrospective of Kennard’s work was held at the Imperial War Museum, London for one year from May 2015. For Hard Focus, Peter will discuss the relationship between his work and its impact on physical (public/gallery) spaces.
Karen Harvey – ‘GIRL TOWN: the making of a real world exhibition through a digital platform’
Karen Harvey founded Shutter Hub on the basis of her wide experience of working in the photography industry, not only as an award winning photographer, but as a writer, consultant, curator and mentor. She has a special interest in helping photographers to achieve their full potential. Recently she has spoken at the National Photography Symposium, London Art Fair, the Festival of Creative Industries, and across the UK at universities and colleges. Karen delivers portfolio reviews and professional development sessions at events such as Free Range, Photomonth and FORMAT International Photography Festival. For Hard Focus, Karen will be discussing the digital-physical relationship in GIRL TOWN, Shutter Hub’s upcoming exhibition curated from an Instagram open call.
Anna Douglas – ‘Wresting with authenticity’
Originally studying Art History and Film Studies, Anna Douglas has pursued a successful career as an independent curator of exhibitions including film, photography, sound and performance, as well as authoring a number of publications. Since 2006, she has pursued an interest in archival photography, brought into dialogue with contemporary photographic approaches, resulting in dynamic ‘revisionist‘ exhibitions and publications. In 2012, she came across the ‘lost’ photographs of Northern Shirley Baker, and has subsequently devoted her time researching this little known photographer. In 2015, she curated Women and Children; and Loitering Men, opening at The Photographer’s Gallery, London, going on to be one of their largest attended exhibitions. She is a PhD candidate of the University of Leeds, focussing on the work of Baker. For Hard Focus, Anna will explores curating with post-war photography, with a focus on the work of Shirley Baker and Roger Mayne, and the creative and conceptual challenges and limitations that arise due to ‘the value’ placed on and within the vintage object.
Andrea Allan is a photographer and writer. She has recently completed an MA in photography at Manchester School of Art. Allan’s work explores the real and imaginary in an attempt to understand the links between our past, present and future. Combining photography with text she is able to weave past narratives into the fabric of present places, casting old social and political understandings in a contemporary light. She’s interested in how photography and text can be exhibited whether it be exhibition space, website or artist book.
Moira Lovell is an artist whose work deals with photography, gender and power. She studied photography at the Kent Institute of Art and Design and the London College of Communication as wells as Gender, Media and Culture at Goldsmiths University, London. Moira is a lecturer in photography at the University of Salford and a distance-learning photography tutor for the Open College of the Arts. For Hard Focus, Moira will explore the ‘excess’ of photography; and “those photographs that were never meant to be tactile or physical. Made, not for the gallery wall, the paper-pasted billboard or shiny magazines. These are amateur snaps of stuff for sale, made by women.”
Alexandra Hughes – ‘Between Object and Image, Matter and Imagination: Photography and The Wilderness as a Phenomenon of Physical Encounter’
Based in Newcastle, Alexandra Hughes is a visual artist with a practice in the field of expanded photography, undertaking physical explorations of the photographic medium, moving from the 2D to 3D, bringing image and material together to redefine the photographic object to explore our mediated relationship with the landscape through technology and seemingly immaterial, ubiquitous photographic images in the current digital age. She is currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at Northumbria University. For Hard Focus, Alexandra will question both the effects of engaging with the photographic image and it’s tactile, spatial and temporal dimensions (and how it expands ideas of the photographic object in contemporary fine art) and consider, through the mediation of the photographic object how can a wilderness be constructed and explored as a site.
Martin Shepley – Hardly in Focus
Martin Shepley is a poet, essayist and student of occulture, and writes under the nom de guerre ‘Malleable Art’. His work has been published in various anthologies and magazines, and he has collaborated with a diverse array of artists to create bespoke pieces of text for international and local exhibitions. His work deliberates the unknown and the unseen and aims to contextualise the mystery of the everyday. For Hard Focus, Martin will be performing a spoken word piece titled ‘Hardly In Focus’ looking at the enigma that is the contained image and whether a person, place or object can ever be truly ‘captured’ on film.
Hard Focus: The Physicality of Photography will accompany the photography group exhibition Hard Focus, also on show at ArtWork Atelier.
Private View: Wednesday 2nd November
Open to the Public: 3rd – 10th November (10am – 5pm)
Hard Focus Symposium: Saturday 5th November, Hard Focus: The Physicality of Photography, organised by Nightlight Darkroom
Venue: ArtWork Atelier, 95 Greengage, Salford M3 7NG
Neo:gallery23 20:20 Print Exhibition
‘Mother of American Modernity’ – Screenprint by Sandra Bouguerch
‘Mother of American Modernity’ is one of the 600 prints from across the world will be exhibited today 2-4pm at Neo:gallery23 Preview and then open until the 12th Feb.
The 2016 20:20 Print Exchange involves 492 artists from 38 print workshops.
Neo: Artists, Bolton Art
Belfast Print Workshop
Birmingham School of Art
Buckingham Printmakers’ Network
Cardiff Print Workshop
Creative Spark Print Studio, Louth
Cork Printmakers
Cumbria Printmakers
Fife Dunfermline Print Workshop
Gloucestershire Printmakers’ Co-operative
Handprinted, Bognor Regis
Hazelnut Print, Rochester
Hazlehurst Print, Runcorn
Hey Ho Print Co. , Saltburn-by-the-Sea
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hot Bed Press, Salford
Inky Cuttlefish, Walthamstow, London
Lancashire Printmakers
Leeds Beckett University
Limerick Printmakers
Liverpool John Moore University
Mandrake Artists’ Studio, Victoria, Australia
Medway Fine Printmakers, Kent
Oxford Printmakers Co-operative
Print to the People, Norwich
Prospect Studios, Lancashire
Red Hot Press, Southampton
Regional Print Centre, Wrexham
Short Print Collective, Leeds
Slaughterhaus Print Studio, London
South Hill Park Printmaking Studio, Bracknell
Taigh Chearsabhagh Print Workshop, North Uist
The Art House, Wakefield
The Old Rock Factory, Blackpool
The Ropewalk, Barton-upon-Humber
University of Salford (Fine Art)
West Yorkshire Print Workshop
The 2016 20:20 Print Exchange involves 492 artists from 38 print workshops.
Neo: Artists, Bolton Art
Belfast Print Workshop
Birmingham School of Art
Buckingham Printmakers’ Network
Cardiff Print Workshop
Creative Spark Print Studio, Louth
Cork Printmakers
Cumbria Printmakers
Fife Dunfermline Print Workshop
Gloucestershire Printmakers’ Co-operative
Handprinted, Bognor Regis
Hazelnut Print, Rochester
Hazlehurst Print, Runcorn
Hey Ho Print Co. , Saltburn-by-the-Sea
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hot Bed Press, Salford
Inky Cuttlefish, Walthamstow, London
Lancashire Printmakers
Leeds Beckett University
Limerick Printmakers
Liverpool John Moore University
Mandrake Artists’ Studio, Victoria, Australia
Medway Fine Printmakers, Kent
Oxford Printmakers Co-operative
Print to the People, Norwich
Prospect Studios, Lancashire
Red Hot Press, Southampton
Regional Print Centre, Wrexham
Short Print Collective, Leeds
Slaughterhaus Print Studio, London
South Hill Park Printmaking Studio, Bracknell
Taigh Chearsabhagh Print Workshop, North Uist
The Art House, Wakefield
The Old Rock Factory, Blackpool
The Ropewalk, Barton-upon-Humber
University of Salford (Fine Art)
West Yorkshire Print Workshop
Mono Exhibition at PS Mirabel, Manchester 2017
Submitted and selected by PS Mirabel new artwork ‘Mono’ Print on Aluminium
Disband support chosen due as its robust, hard wearing and designed to withstand heavy duty wear and tear. It is extremely stable (dad was not due to his dementia) and offers excellent rigidity (dad body became rigid due to his Parkinson symptoms)
Title : MONO a 30cm by 30cm Photographic image printed onto Dibond Brushed Aluminium Plate |
Video IM-PRINT selected for the Neo-printprize 2016
It started with a kiss, a kiss impressed upon my face resulting in three variations of prints. My new video IM-PRINT can be seen at the Neo-printprize preview 27th August 2-4pm 2016. Exhibition runs until the 30th October. An emotional mark is transferred culminating as memory and altering my reality from then onwards. The transference of this experience from the mono printed event is then processed via the mechanical detached process of video to become another printing process and a secondary event. This subsequently becomes an accessible unlimited edition. A third print is established from the shadows cast by the two bodies. The lipsticks are the ink, I become the paper and he is the printing press. The pleasure of printing derives from the intention, however due to limited control the outcome and end result is of a surprise.
Like life it is the journey, the process and not the end result that are satisfying and challenging.
JUDGES Were:-
Nancy Campbell Artist/Writer, Editor of Printmaking Today
Rachel Gladfelter Director, Pace Prints New York
Gill Saunders Senior Curator, Victoria & Albert Museum
Jo Stockham Artist, Professor and Head of the Print Programme, Royal College of Art
Like life it is the journey, the process and not the end result that are satisfying and challenging.
JUDGES Were:-
Nancy Campbell Artist/Writer, Editor of Printmaking Today
Rachel Gladfelter Director, Pace Prints New York
Gill Saunders Senior Curator, Victoria & Albert Museum
Jo Stockham Artist, Professor and Head of the Print Programme, Royal College of Art
Artists Statement
Sandra Bouguerch is an Interdisciplinary artist who’s practice primarily uses video, installation and performance amongst other various relevant mediums and supports to investigate discomfort, sexuality, need and the desire for human connection. Focusing on ‘Temporal Experiences of Awareness and Tension in Relation to the Notion of Self’ which were triggered during her own transformation and development of self whilst life modelling, she thus became self-aware of her surroundings, others, her body and herself. It was a natural development to use the artist herself as the source, highlighting the multiplicity sharing commonalities, both physical and psychological that inform the human condition. The dualities that make people individually unique also address common similarities we all share in being human at this particular moment in time. Sandra’s current work involves her late father who had dementia and also a fascination of internet dating including elements of perceived vulnerability, risk and power within interactions and relationships.
Spectrum PS Mirabel Open Art Exhibition 2016
Sandra Bouguerch, Axel Bottenberg, Roger Bygott, Jasmir Creed, Jane Fairhurst, Steven Heaton, Holly Rowan Hesson, Richard Hughes, Ilona Kiss, Jane Lawson, Hilary O’Mahon, Steph Shipley and Di Terry are exhibiting in Spectrum PS Mirabel Open Art Exhibition 2016
at PS Mirabel, 14-20 Mirabel Street, Manchester M3 1PJ
Exhibition continues every Saturday 11am-5pm until 13th August 2016.
http://psmirabel.co.uk/
at PS Mirabel, 14-20 Mirabel Street, Manchester M3 1PJ
Exhibition continues every Saturday 11am-5pm until 13th August 2016.
http://psmirabel.co.uk/
‘POTENTIAS’ Artists Residency
Currently researching and creating artworks in Rogue Studios and Project Space in Manchester responding to a new concept titled ‘POTENTIAS’ a made up word by Jane Lawson. Roger Bygott Jane Lawson Annie Harrison Lea Torp Nielsen Adam ‘Monty’ Henshaw and Claire Tindale are the artist involved. Researching material is The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. The book is about Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life–Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Urras, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.
Another area of interest is from Oliver Postgate who in his autobiography, ‘Seeing Things’, Postgate writes:
“Fear is the blinder that closes our eyes to hurt and unleashes aggression… This meant that some of the actions and attitudes that I had thought of as morally ‘bad’ could well have been no more than a side-effect of fear, perhaps not of physical fear but of a more subtle fear of personal isolation”
Another area of interest is from Oliver Postgate who in his autobiography, ‘Seeing Things’, Postgate writes:
“Fear is the blinder that closes our eyes to hurt and unleashes aggression… This meant that some of the actions and attitudes that I had thought of as morally ‘bad’ could well have been no more than a side-effect of fear, perhaps not of physical fear but of a more subtle fear of personal isolation”
SELFIE (performing to camera)
New work SELFIE (performing to camera).
Photographic image printed on an Aluminium plate, mounted onto Oak similar to coffin plaques.
I am an only child and the subject my late father championed my artistic career.
There is nothing flattering or casual about death, opposite of what a SELFIE photo portrays.
Photographic image printed on an Aluminium plate, mounted onto Oak similar to coffin plaques.
I am an only child and the subject my late father championed my artistic career.
There is nothing flattering or casual about death, opposite of what a SELFIE photo portrays.
LAZARUS
A photographic image printed onto a Brushed Aluminium plate and mounted onto Oak, similar to plaques on coffins. The subject is my late father who championed my artistic career and was taken 4 days after he died. I applied gold leaf to his left eye as a symbol of esteem.
SELFIE is a photographic image printed on an Aluminium plate, similar to coffin plaques. I am an only child and the subject my late father championed my artistic career. There is nothing flattering or casual about death, opposite of what a SELFIE photo portrays
LAZARUS is a photographic image printed onto a Brushed Aluminium plate similar to plaques on coffins.
The subject is my late father who championed my artistic career and was taken 4 days after he died.
I applied gold leaf to his left eye as a symbol of esteem.
The subject is my late father who championed my artistic career and was taken 4 days after he died.
I applied gold leaf to his left eye as a symbol of esteem.
EXHIBITION : March 5-11, 2016. Women’s Voices Changing ManchesterTo reflect and mark International Women’s Day, Manchester collective Crafters Inc. proudly presents Women’s Voices – Changing Manchester: an exhibition celebrating the diverse and distinct voices of female Manchester based artists, both empowering and empowered through making. From a diverse background, the artists exhibiting will show work in a range of disciplines including fine art, photography, graphic and jewellery art in a variety of media.
http://www.craftanddesign.com/events/womens-voices-changing-manchester/
My video for this exhibition can be viewed here
https://vimeo.com/154370116
http://www.craftanddesign.com/events/womens-voices-changing-manchester/
My video for this exhibition can be viewed here
https://vimeo.com/154370116
Marrakech Biennial ‘Pulses and Pauses’
MEA CULPA. I wish to highlight the tensions that often arise from distorted perceptions, intolerance, ignorance and intercultural exchanges; that characterise today’s society. I wish my work to act as a catalyst for dialogue and reflection.
https://vimeo.com/28231538 Video exhibition and Exchange between Philippines and Morocco.
http://room74.space/2016/03/15/pulses-and-pauses/
https://vimeo.com/28231538 Video exhibition and Exchange between Philippines and Morocco.
http://room74.space/2016/03/15/pulses-and-pauses/
24:24:24 - at PS Mirabel
New work ‘FORM AND FIX’ (the things you Love) opening this Thursday at PS Mirabel.
Private View: Thursday 7th January 6 to 9 pm
For our first show of 2016 we are joining up with our friends from NEO. Taking the 24 minute train journey from Bolton to Manchester as our cue we have invited 12 artists from each studio to show work that is no more than 24 x 24 x 24 inches in size. Join us for the preview on 7th January from 6pm to 9pm.
Another year of art adventures begins …….
Open Saturdays 11 am to 5 pm, 9th January to 20 February 2016
Private View: Thursday 7th January 6 to 9 pm
For our first show of 2016 we are joining up with our friends from NEO. Taking the 24 minute train journey from Bolton to Manchester as our cue we have invited 12 artists from each studio to show work that is no more than 24 x 24 x 24 inches in size. Join us for the preview on 7th January from 6pm to 9pm.
Another year of art adventures begins …….
Open Saturdays 11 am to 5 pm, 9th January to 20 February 2016
20:20 PRINT EXCHANGE 2016
583 Artists make 583 prints from 43 Printmaking Workshops. The Hot Bed Press Print exchange exhibits the diversity in contemporary print today.
One out of every edition goes on national tour to workshops/galleries starting at:-
neo:gallery27
The Market Place
Bolton
BL1 2AL
Starting on the 7th January 2016 with a preview on Saturday 9th January 2-4pm. The gallery is open Thursday - Sunday 11am - 5pm until 31st January
The 20:20 Print Exchange will then tour to West Yorkshire Print Workshop in February and Liverpool John Moores in March. More venues will be confirmed soon.
See www.2020printexchange.com for more details and updates.
One out of every edition goes on national tour to workshops/galleries starting at:-
neo:gallery27
The Market Place
Bolton
BL1 2AL
Starting on the 7th January 2016 with a preview on Saturday 9th January 2-4pm. The gallery is open Thursday - Sunday 11am - 5pm until 31st January
The 20:20 Print Exchange will then tour to West Yorkshire Print Workshop in February and Liverpool John Moores in March. More venues will be confirmed soon.
See www.2020printexchange.com for more details and updates.
The Transformation of Things. A Video and Performance Installation
Research and Development trip to Rabat, Morocco December 2015
https://vimeo.com/148936169
To Rabat, Morocco all my Love
#Rabat #Kenitra #Morocco #Love #Sexuality #Hope #Dreams
To Rabat, Morocco all my Love
#Rabat #Kenitra #Morocco #Love #Sexuality #Hope #Dreams
‘Be My Dog’ performance at HOME, Manchester
‘Be My Dog’ performance at HOME arts venue, Manchester in July, welcoming performance artist ‘Penny Arcade’ for Dinner and performance event with Pool Arts
'Some Velvet Morning’ performed by Jackie Haynes & Sandra Bouguerch
From the Page to the Stage was a workshop led by writer, performer, provocateur Lydia Lunch. An artist who has collaborated with dozens of musicians, writers, artists, and filmmakers, Lydia shares her vision and frames a process designed to encourage creativity and collaboration as an important means of artistic expression and personal growth.
A live show performed by the 24 participants who took part in the ‘page to the stage’ workshops that took place at Islington Mill during Lunch’s Samarbeta residency
https://soundcloud.com/sandra-bouguerch/some-velvet-morning
A live show performed by the 24 participants who took part in the ‘page to the stage’ workshops that took place at Islington Mill during Lunch’s Samarbeta residency
https://soundcloud.com/sandra-bouguerch/some-velvet-morning
Performing 'ROMANCING THE CUNT’ Saturday 14 November 2015
This is the launch and book signing of 'The Visceral Tear' a profane first novel by writer and photographer Sue Fox at the 'Wonder Inn' on Shudehill, Manchester, and published by Oneiros Books in 2015. There will be an array of trangressive art by David Hoyle, Lee Baxter, Simon Taylor, Emma Phillipson, Iain Pearson, Dave Bez, Miki Christi, Sue Fox, & Hannah O'Connell. Performers include:- John G. Hall, Lauren Bolger, Sandra Bouguerch, Jon McGrath, Louise Woodcock, Rachel Margetts, Locean and Oneiros authors reading from their books, including Sue Fox, Rachel Kendall, Chris Nosnibor & Salem Kapsaski. There will be books and art for sale, a bar, and other oddities to view and buy. Booking essential. Limited places. This event is strictly for over 18, and contains graphic adult themes.
BE MY DOG. MSB2015 Open Studio
Video: Be My Dog was performed 26 June as part of MSB2015 Open Studio. http://t.co/0zkH05VPwR
From my own experience Internet dating can be can be fun, depressing and destructive. It is both playful and serious depending on what you are looking for, ultimately risk is involved. After numerous let downs and unpleasant results from individuals actions, the result can instil a nervousness to try the same thing again.
Raw emotions, bursts of energies are transmitted. YES, NO, MAYBE and NEXT flash thorough my mind.
MSB2015 Open Studio I features new work by members of CG Associates, Bloc Projects (Sheffield) and Extra Special People (Birmingham). This is the first part of a three-part residency exchange focused on providing opportunities for making work in quick, experimental contexts, developing conversations with other practitioners and opening opportunities for collaboration. The series of residencies is designed to develop the practices of the participating artists by providing them with critical input and opportunities to experiment, collaborate, develop their networks nationally, make new work and exhibit.
From my own experience Internet dating can be can be fun, depressing and destructive. It is both playful and serious depending on what you are looking for, ultimately risk is involved. After numerous let downs and unpleasant results from individuals actions, the result can instil a nervousness to try the same thing again.
Raw emotions, bursts of energies are transmitted. YES, NO, MAYBE and NEXT flash thorough my mind.
MSB2015 Open Studio I features new work by members of CG Associates, Bloc Projects (Sheffield) and Extra Special People (Birmingham). This is the first part of a three-part residency exchange focused on providing opportunities for making work in quick, experimental contexts, developing conversations with other practitioners and opening opportunities for collaboration. The series of residencies is designed to develop the practices of the participating artists by providing them with critical input and opportunities to experiment, collaborate, develop their networks nationally, make new work and exhibit.
DEAD FUNNY EXHIBITION. June-August 9th 2015.
I have my video ‘FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY FFF’ and a sound piece called ‘Dead Funny life’s just ARGH’
I am interested in creating work that implies uncertainty, tension and vulnerability, aiming to suggest the commonalities, both physical and psychological, that inform the human condition. I hope to achieve a future body of work that through intervention captures an essence of the performance and challenges ideas of what initially took place.
Dipping the wick was inspired by Internet Dating.
From my own experience Internet dating can be can be fun, depressing and destructive. It is both playful and serious depending on what you are looking for. Ultimately you are at risk of getting your fingers burnt, wasting precious time and energy. A burning candle of hope and desire may stop one from snuff the flame, however one puff and connectivity is extinguished, to be re-lit at a later DATE.
Dipping the wick was inspired by Internet Dating.
From my own experience Internet dating can be can be fun, depressing and destructive. It is both playful and serious depending on what you are looking for. Ultimately you are at risk of getting your fingers burnt, wasting precious time and energy. A burning candle of hope and desire may stop one from snuff the flame, however one puff and connectivity is extinguished, to be re-lit at a later DATE.
Hung Drawn and Curated
‘Dipping the Wick’ can be seen at Hung Drawn and Curated
Castlefield Gallery, 2 Hewitt Street, M15 4GB Manchester, United Kingdom
8th May at 18:00–20:00
Castlefield Gallery, 2 Hewitt Street, M15 4GB Manchester, United Kingdom
8th May at 18:00–20:00
FINGERS CROSSED 2
From my own experience Internet dating can be can be fun, depressing and destructive. It is both playful and serious depending on what you are looking for. Ultimately you are at risk of getting your fingers burnt, wasting precious time and energy. A burning candle of hope and desire may stop one from snuff the flame, however one puff and connectivity is extinguished, to be re-lit at a later DATE.
From my own experience Internet dating can be can be fun, depressing and destructive. It is both playful and serious depending on what you are looking for. Ultimately you are at risk of getting your fingers burnt, wasting precious time and energy. A burning candle of hope and desire may stop one from snuff the flame, however one puff and connectivity is extinguished, to be re-lit at a later DATE.
FINGERS CROSSED 2 - Friday 13th March 2015 6-9pm
Art Exhibition returns to Manchester for one night on Friday 13th March
The 2nd out of three shows, each on Friday 13th in a different location in Manchester.
Drawing on the success of the first show held on Friday 13th February the artists from Manchester, Leeds, London and Bolton are synchronizing again with the calendar and resonating with the new space, bringing artworks of unique approach to luck, chance, accidents, fate, coincidence and superstition as a subject or a part
of the creative process.
The 2nd out of three shows, each on Friday 13th in a different location in Manchester.
Drawing on the success of the first show held on Friday 13th February the artists from Manchester, Leeds, London and Bolton are synchronizing again with the calendar and resonating with the new space, bringing artworks of unique approach to luck, chance, accidents, fate, coincidence and superstition as a subject or a part
of the creative process.
FINGERS CROSSED – Friday 13th February 2015 6-9pm
Third Floor Studio & Project Space
66-72 Chapeltown Street, Piccadilly, Manchester M1 2WH
First of 3 Group Exhibitions exploring Luck, Chance, Fate, Accidents, Coincidence and Superstition as a subject or a part of the creative process. Artists from London, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow and Bolton are showing diverse works in various media including: installation, sculpture, drawing, painting, illustration and performance.
66-72 Chapeltown Street, Piccadilly, Manchester M1 2WH
First of 3 Group Exhibitions exploring Luck, Chance, Fate, Accidents, Coincidence and Superstition as a subject or a part of the creative process. Artists from London, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow and Bolton are showing diverse works in various media including: installation, sculpture, drawing, painting, illustration and performance.
Hotbed Press 20:20 Print Exchange 2015, Gallery 27 Neo:artists
Hotbed press 20:20 Print Exchange is coming to Neo’s new gallery space, Gallery 27. My contribution ‘FAILED’ can be seen alongside other Neo members and other art studios who took part in this touring exhibitionThe @HotBedPress 20:20 Print Exchange exhibition is at @neo_artists Gallery 27, Bolton. Opens Sat 10th January 2015.
HOTBED PRESS 20:20 Print Exchange 2014
Friday evening from 6pm we will be opening our show of all 581 no.1s of the editions from this year’s HOTBED PRESS print exchange. This launches the touring show which will carry on from 8th January to 22nd February at Neo:artists Gallery 22 in Bolton, (full show), West Yorkshire Print Workshop, March to April; (a selection of work around the building), The Art House, Wakefield May to June, Belfast Print Workshop July to August and The Bluecoat Print Studio in Liverpool September to October.
I am really pleased to announce all images are now on our Flickr site. The site can be found at http://tinyurl.com/q6jween. You can see the vast array of prints involved and everyone can see workshop groupings and how the prints reflect the nature of each workshop... it’s fascinating.
I am really pleased to announce all images are now on our Flickr site. The site can be found at http://tinyurl.com/q6jween. You can see the vast array of prints involved and everyone can see workshop groupings and how the prints reflect the nature of each workshop... it’s fascinating.
A6 Dialogue Three @ Third Floor Studios
A6 Dialogue Three @ Third Floor Studios
ManchesterPreview: 22nd November, 6-9pm
Open: 22 – 29th November, 12-5pm
3rd Floor Studios, 66-72 Chapeltown Street, Manchester, M1 2WH
Open: 22 – 29th November, 12-5pm
3rd Floor Studios, 66-72 Chapeltown Street, Manchester, M1 2WH
PS Mirabel - MULTIPLY Exhibition
My prints will be on display at MULTIPLY.
Works included are:-
Up & Down
The Sitter
Space & Time
Time & Space
Misplaced Evidence.
These various editions and one off prints will be available to purchase.
Open every Saturday until the 13th DEC 2014.
Works included are:-
Up & Down
The Sitter
Space & Time
Time & Space
Misplaced Evidence.
These various editions and one off prints will be available to purchase.
Open every Saturday until the 13th DEC 2014.
LEVEL-HEADED
LEVEL-HEADED references ourselves in times of personal emotional emergency.
FUSE ART SPACE INSTAGRAM ARTIST
I am taking over the Fuse Art Space INSTAGRAM for one week.
Fuse Art Space is a gallery and performance venue in Bradford (UK). We invite artists to take over this feed on a weekly basis. http://www.wearefuse.co/
Fuse Art Space is a gallery and performance venue in Bradford (UK). We invite artists to take over this feed on a weekly basis. http://www.wearefuse.co/
SHUFFLE
Shuffle was created using video as a collaboration exploring the relationship between the artist Sandra Bouguerch and her elderly father Terence McShane who is suffering with symptoms of dementia.Unstable and unconfident movement addresses areas of vulnerability, including what it is like to be at this stage in ones life.
BROKEN a photographic print created July 2014.
RED BALLOON Pop by Sandra Bouguerch, June 2014
RED BALLOON PoP brings together new and previous works in an intimate look into the world the artist shares with her elderly father Terence. For Bouguerch, the body has always been both her subject and medium, the scope of which has been expanded in this latest body of work to include her father. Utilising various media, including performance, video and photography to record outcomes, intense visual and audio atmospheres are created that draw the viewer ever deeper into the emotional dilemmas of caring for an elderly relative struggling with symptoms of dementia.
LES FEMME FOLLES.
http://femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com
Les Femmes Folles (LFF) is an organization around the online journal supporting women in art founded and curated by Sally Deskins.
I am pleased to have my video ’SHUFFLE’ in this Spring exhibition ‘Arbitrary Ground’ in Gallery 22, the Market Place, Bolton. The exhibition featuring work from all disciplines is curated by neo: members. The exhibition was selected through open submission and features work from new and better known members of neo
My 87 year old father and my ongoing observations of him provided the inspiration for this video.
The aim of the artwork is to address areas of vulnerability, including what it is like to be at this stage in ones life.
Title of ‘SHUFFLE' comes from his unstable and unconfident movement, also various meanings and implications the word shuffle may produce. To slide (the feet) along the floor or ground while walking or to move from one place to another; transfer or shift. To mix together; jumble so as to make a random order of arrangement or to put aside or under cover quickly.
My 87 year old father and my ongoing observations of him provided the inspiration for this video.
The aim of the artwork is to address areas of vulnerability, including what it is like to be at this stage in ones life.
Title of ‘SHUFFLE' comes from his unstable and unconfident movement, also various meanings and implications the word shuffle may produce. To slide (the feet) along the floor or ground while walking or to move from one place to another; transfer or shift. To mix together; jumble so as to make a random order of arrangement or to put aside or under cover quickly.
'Time and Space' and 'Space and Time' are being exhibited at
IF NOT HERE WHERE from 7th to 21st July
Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, Manchester.
Photographic print 'Time and Space'
'Space and Time' photographic print
Flat Out Uncomfortably Numb
Independent Strand of the Liverpool Biennial festival of Contemporary Art.
I created an installation encompassing video,
print and photography for a group exhibition.
In ‘Emergence’, the artists exploit the creative potential of a diverse range of disciplines, including moving image, sculpture, photography, wet and alternative processes.
15-29 September 2012
print and photography for a group exhibition.
In ‘Emergence’, the artists exploit the creative potential of a diverse range of disciplines, including moving image, sculpture, photography, wet and alternative processes.
15-29 September 2012
SCREAMPRINT NEO:PRINT PRIZE
A response to print making as a constantly evolving beast.
A response to print making as a constantly evolving beast.
time is love screening International Video Art Program
http://www.timeisloveshow.org/#!about12/cki7_
23 August - 18 October 2014
TIME is Love.7 [Show 6]
TORRANCE ART MUSEUM
3320 Civic Center Drive, Torrance, California 90503 USA
www.torranceartmuseum.com
Opening: Sat 23rd August | 6-9pm
Free admission
Including
Alexis Milne & Tom Bresolin (UK), Amina Zoubir (Algeria), Anahita Razmi (Iran), Ana Moravi & Dellani Lima (Brazil), Anders Weberg (Sweden), Anne Lise Stenseth (Norway), Antonello Matarazzo (Italy), Arnaud Brihay (France), Belle Shafir (Israel), Carlo Giuseppe Zuozo (Italy), Eva Olsson (Sweden), Francesca Leoni (Brazil)), Gianluca Capozzi (Italy), Evelin Stermitz (Austria), Guli Silberstein (Israel), Grace Kim (Korea), Irina Gabiani (Luxembourg), Joas Nebe (Germany), Jose-Man Lius (France), Justyna Scheuring (Poland), Laura Focarazzo (Argentina), Marcello Mercado (Germany), Marie Paule Bilger & Pierre Friquet (France), Marina Fomenko (Russia), Margarida Paiva (Portugal), Matthias Mollner (Austria), Maximilian Schmoetzer & Fabian Heitzhausen (Germany), Max Hattler (Germany), Monica Elkelv (UK), Nao Sakamoto (Japan), Nina Lassila (Finland), Otto Berchem (USA), Rahman Hak-Hagir (Afghanistan), Rehema Chachage (Tanzania), Robert Croma (UK), Riham Isaac (Palestine), Said Afifi (Morocco), Said Rais (Morocco), Sandra Bouguerch (UK), Saul Levine (USA), Sheri Wills (USA), Simone Stoll (Germany), S/N Coalition (USA), Sylvia Toy St-Louis (USA), Tina Hochkogler (Austria), Veronique Mouysset (France), William Esdale (UK).
23 August - 18 October 2014
TIME is Love.7 [Show 6]
TORRANCE ART MUSEUM
3320 Civic Center Drive, Torrance, California 90503 USA
www.torranceartmuseum.com
Opening: Sat 23rd August | 6-9pm
Free admission
Including
Alexis Milne & Tom Bresolin (UK), Amina Zoubir (Algeria), Anahita Razmi (Iran), Ana Moravi & Dellani Lima (Brazil), Anders Weberg (Sweden), Anne Lise Stenseth (Norway), Antonello Matarazzo (Italy), Arnaud Brihay (France), Belle Shafir (Israel), Carlo Giuseppe Zuozo (Italy), Eva Olsson (Sweden), Francesca Leoni (Brazil)), Gianluca Capozzi (Italy), Evelin Stermitz (Austria), Guli Silberstein (Israel), Grace Kim (Korea), Irina Gabiani (Luxembourg), Joas Nebe (Germany), Jose-Man Lius (France), Justyna Scheuring (Poland), Laura Focarazzo (Argentina), Marcello Mercado (Germany), Marie Paule Bilger & Pierre Friquet (France), Marina Fomenko (Russia), Margarida Paiva (Portugal), Matthias Mollner (Austria), Maximilian Schmoetzer & Fabian Heitzhausen (Germany), Max Hattler (Germany), Monica Elkelv (UK), Nao Sakamoto (Japan), Nina Lassila (Finland), Otto Berchem (USA), Rahman Hak-Hagir (Afghanistan), Rehema Chachage (Tanzania), Robert Croma (UK), Riham Isaac (Palestine), Said Afifi (Morocco), Said Rais (Morocco), Sandra Bouguerch (UK), Saul Levine (USA), Sheri Wills (USA), Simone Stoll (Germany), S/N Coalition (USA), Sylvia Toy St-Louis (USA), Tina Hochkogler (Austria), Veronique Mouysset (France), William Esdale (UK).