The brand new exhibition—“frivolously, tendrils”—by artists Annalee Davis and Amanda Thomson will open on April 9 and shall be on view by way of Might 21, 2022, on the Centre for Up to date Arts (CCA) in Glasgow, Scotland.
In frivolously, tendrils Annalee Davis and Amanda Thomson study nature and panorama in Scotland and Barbados, providing differing views on place and belonging. Their works counsel multi-directional modes of understanding, knowledgeable by the artists’ expertise of those areas: residing, strolling and mapping their relationship with the bodily atmosphere.
Annalee Davis’ hybrid follow is as a visible artist, cultural instigator, and author. Her work sits on the intersection of biography and historical past, focussing on post-plantation economies by participating with a selected panorama on Barbados. Her studio, positioned on a working dairy farm that operated traditionally as a 17thC sugarcane plantation, gives a vital context for her follow.
Annalee is at the moment exhibiting in “Staple: What’s in your plate?”, an inaugural present at Haay Jameel (Jeddah). Latest exhibitions embrace “And if I devoted my life to certainly one of its feathers?” (Kunsthalle Wien, Austria) and “Potential Agrarianisms: Will there be sugar after the rebel?” (Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia). Upcoming exhibitions embrace the group exhibition, “Vanishing Traces” (Venezuela, Uruguay, and Bolivia), the Sharjah Biennale and a significant fee for the Nationwide Belief for Scotland exploring historic hyperlinks between Scotland and Barbados.
In 2011, Annalee based Recent Milk, an artwork platform and micro-residency programme in Barbados. She has co-founded a number of pan-Caribbean initiatives, together with Caribbean Linked, an annual residency in Aruba; Tilting Axis, an unbiased visible arts platform bridging the Caribbean by way of annual encounters with a fellowship programme; and Bitter Grass, a curatorial company focussed on modern Caribbean artwork follow.
Amanda Thomson is a visible artist and author whose writing and artwork is usually concerning the social and pure histories of the Highlands of Scotland. Thomson’s work lies on the overlap of the human and the more-than-human, the seen and the unseen, and the seen and invisible issues that tie us all by way of motion, geography and time. Her practice-based doctorate in Interdisciplinary Arts Follow mixed anthropology, geography, ecology, artwork and writing in its exploration of among the forests of the north of Scotland.
She has proven internationally, and her essays have been printed in books and journals together with The Willowherb Assessment and the anthologies Antlers of Water, Writing on the Nature and Surroundings of Scotland, The Wild Isles and Presents of Gravity and Gentle. She lives in Strathspey, within the Scottish Highlands, when not instructing at Glasgow Faculty of Artwork. Her first guide, A Scots Dictionary of Nature, a compendium of discovered phrases from nineteenth century Scots language dictionaries, is printed by Saraband Books. Her second guide, belonging, pure histories of place, identification and residential shall be printed by Canongate Books in August 2022.
She is at the moment one of many Endangered Landscapes artists-in-residence with Cairngorms Join panorama restoration challenge, with Elizabeth Reeder and Robbie Synge.
For extra info, see https://www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/lightly-tendrils
[Shown above: A work by Annalee Davis.]