Image by Silvia Gentili

Join us at our June virtual artist peer group (rescheduled from April), an opportunity to hear from two artists about their practice. Our peer groups provide the space for artists to share active ideas, projects and challenges, with peer support from audience participants.

Our artists this month are Frank Reed and Silvia Gentili.

Frank says: “My work is primarily focussed on drawing and line. I’ve been increasingly navigating my way round paint and colour. My work explores every day structures around us – like windows, doors, edges – and uses them as boundaries and frames between real and imagined spaces. I’ve recently introduced a bit of model making and light, taking photos of different set ups, layers and collages. I really enjoyed making models a few years ago with card and paper, using net squares etc to create little rooms – so this is a kind of return to that work. I’d like some ideas with how to develop this conceptually (why am I doing it apart from just playing around?) and on how to present it. I’m enjoying the process but it feels a bit too experimental to properly share yet.”

Silvia says: “I am a multidisciplinary artist. At the moment I am working on a project called A philology of emotions about the body and illness. Through the use of video, performance, photography, sound, and text it aims to create a language that can express embodied emotions and perceptions of the sick body. The wounded body challenges the existence fragmenting the communication between the body and the self; while illness represents the failure of the physical body making aware of mortality and of the impossibility of perfection. By creating an alphabet of gestures, movements, sounds, and embodied writing tries to create a language to translate and transform inner worlds of sickness, liberating the persona from the stigma of being ill.”

The event takes place over Zoom with a break in the middle.