Open Studio weekend 10th-11th May 2008

A hot but busy weekend at Artspace Portsmouth Open Studios event.

After a busy Friday night, doing the yearly hoover and sort out, Saturday saw
lots of visitors. Its always a great time for conversations, talking about the
work and hearing of visitors office experiences, which hopefully I’ll get to
video in July.

Anyway for those who have missed it, a small snippet of an image and some text from
my open Studio newsletter. Do contact me if you would like to be involved in the spike it project, or interviews.

Oh and my image for the auction was snapped up, so good news for Artspace and me!


Newsletter…..

Jeannie Driver

Welcome to studio 21

I have inhabited this studio for over 2 years, and I continue to divide my time between studio 21, a studio at home and various other locations to achieve the varied elements of my practice. (space is always an issue!) I work full time as an artist, making my living through arts projects, commissions, residencies and studio practice.

UPDATE
Last year I received funding from Arts Council SE to develop my practice, specifically the spike it project, which enabled me to concentrate on making work for a whole year!
spike it locates 6ft spike files in offices to act as catalyst and signifier for individual and collective explorations of notions of work, paper, flow and emotion. The process creates stratified sculptures of office activity together with filmed interviews and cctv monitoring of spike.
The process has a direct relevance to the ‘audience’ and site whilst creating a body of work as social commentary of quodation issues.
The intention for this work is to create an ‘installation’ comprising of a ‘forest of spikes’, together with, cctv footage, video of office culture, data collections, risk assessments and filmed interviews with workers from private and public companies and organisations.

EXHIBITIONS during the previous 12 months
• January 2008 Gallery 53 Beauchamp Place, Knightsbridge
• January2008 Artspace exhibition at Lakeside 1000 (business venue)
• December 2007- Millais Gallery, Southampton
• October 2007 launch of www.spikeit.org
• October 2007 Launch of online ATMOSPHERE board
• October 2007 Spike It exhibition at Apsex Gallery

NEWS
• Acquire exhibition, Aspex Gallery. May-July 2008 Baseline Spike (1-1000) will be exhibited.
• Distributed South Residency. June-July 2008 Working in collaboration with fellow Artspace member Mike Blackman to develop CHARM. This project develops the work of STEPDATA.
• ARC commission- Current. Commission to evaluate arc services and presentation of data.
• gasp 1-12h July 2008 a break from ‘work’ to ‘play’ in the Artspace’s gallery.
• CIBAS -Creative Focus Conference. 11th June 2008. One of 12 creative champions contributing to the conference being held in Portsmouth.

OPPORTUNITIES
My work involves peoples, involvement, participation and contribution. I am currently seeking:
• office workers to interview on camera their thoughts on the ideas of ‘work’
• office and home workers to use the online ATMOSPHERE board for one week
• offices to visit photograph and film
• step data participants

SUPPORT
see overleaf for spike it commissions, purchasing limited edition archival prints, ATMOSPHERE boards, commission artwork, consultancy, public speaking & presentations.

Thank you for taking the time to read this news letter.
Further info contact jeannie@jeanniedriver.com