Rosalind Davis Artist, Curator, Writer, Teacher, Creative ...Rosalind Davis Artist, Curator, Writer,...

Rosalind Davis

Artist, Curator, Writer, Teacher, Creative Consultant

www.RosalindDavis.co.uk

Co-Founder of ZeitgeistArtsProjects.com

Graduate of Chelsea & Royal College of Art

Twitter: @rosalinddavis @ZeitgeistAP Image courtesy of Peter Liversidge

Aspirations: Engagement

Image courtesy of Peter Liversidge

ASPIRATIONS

• Exemplary ambitious arts

organisation locally &

nationally

• Reinventing/ redefining

models of engagement

• Create a platform &

critical hub for

engagement, diversity,

conversations

• Create something

extraordinary

ASPIRATIONS

Dialogue, Collaboration, Debate,

Networks Insight, Nurturing,

Engaging & Engaged

Internal&external. An Incubator for ideas, development and for graduates

Artist-led by

the ambitious

dynamic duo:

Rosalind Davis

Annabel Tilley

Empowering

Insightful

Engaging

What do you want to reinvent? …..

PRIORITIES & METHODOLOGIES MAPPING, CONNECTING, QUESTIONING,

RESEARCHING; Internal & External; through

engaging in events, workshops, exhibitions, talks,

meetings, networks

Artists, organisations local and national, resident Primary artists, community

groups. A virtual as well as a communal psycho-geographic map.

PRIORITIES & APPROACH:

ENGAGEMENT

Image courtesy of Peter Liversidge

Social Media

Connecting others as well as ourselves

Becoming Part of Something.

A virtual & physical community

Rosalind Davis: Award-

winning Blogger on a-n.

I ran an artist-led gallery space in an artists studio complex

17 Exhibitions, 5 open studios, 22 workshops & talks working with over 200 Artists & Curators

Collaboratively and strategically. Recognised locally and nationally.

Launch of DIY EDUCATE. Core Gallery, Deptford 2009-11

Left: Ciaran O Dochartaigh in Skin Job. Above: l-r Alyson Helyer, Tom Butler, Marion Michell in Extra-Ordinary

Core Gallery

‘ An „interested‟ and engaged space, connecting with artists and its context in collaboration and debate. The gallery’s programme is seen through many voices rather than one which seems to indicate something about an artist led space operating as a community, one where ownership of the space and its output is shared between its members and collaborators’ Nick Kaplony

Exhibitions Collectible. 2012

Curated by Rosalind Davis & Annabel Tilley Small works by Collectible established & promising artists

from £50-£500

Artists participating Include: Guy Allott, Iain Andrews, Edwina Ashton, Graham Crowley, Sarah Douglas,

Freya Douglas Morris, Annabel Dover, Karl England, Alyson Helyer, Andrew Hewish, Jack Hutchinson, Peter

Jones, Cathy Lomax, Wayne Lucas, Fiona MacDonald, EJ Major, Nadege Meriau, Marion Michell, Clare

Mitten, Kate Murdoch, Wieland Payer, Alex Pearl, Edd Pearman, Kate Pickering,, Alli Sharma, Gordon

Shrigley, Lisa Snook, Corinna Spencer, Emily Speed, Giulia Ricci, Freddie Robins, Virginia Verran, Jenny

Wiener, Rich White, Andy Wicks, Rachel Wilberforce, Sarah Williams, James Wright, Peter Wylie.

67 Artists, 97 Artworks, 700

visitors in 700 days, 25% of works

sold

2x Reviews on Artblog & Artspiel

Utilising networks & social media

The Zeitgeist Summer Show - July 2013 A special 3-day annual show to say thank you to the 110 ZAP Members

Name badges. Collaborators! Valuing an ideology.

“An antidote to the RA Summer show” Rachel Guthrie

L/R work by ZAP Members: Dina Varpahovsky

Jane Archer, Lisa Snook & Pippa Gatty

INTERNAL & EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT .

TRANSFORMATION

Valuing….artists, communities,projects Image courtesy of Rosalind Davis

Engage!

Conversations

Photo by Rosalind Davis

Reinventing artists experience of art world through meaningful interaction

- Creating spaces for conversations

Interconnectivity, conversations, ideas, collaborations,

exciting engagement.

Image courtesy of Olaf Breuning

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

In relational art, the audience is envisaged as a community. Rather than the

artwork being an encounter between a viewer and an object, relational art

produces intersubjective encounters. Through these encounters, meaning is

elaborated collectively (Bourriaud).

Community Workshop at Bruce Castle Museum

SHARE & EXCHANGE EXHIBITION An instant exhibition, open to all artists, where all the artworks were exchanged

randomly at the end of the evening.

Cos Ahmet, Judith Alder, Brian Appleby, Phil Baird, Ros Barker, Miranda Benzies, Kate Bowen, Sasha Bowles,

Broughton Birnie, Shelley Calhoun, Gemma Cossey, Amelia Critchlow, Somaya Critchlow, Graham Crowley, Sally

Crowley, Rosalind Davis, Dave Edmond, Bettina Fung, Yolanta Gawlik, Julia Hamilton, Kirsty Harris, Genevieve Hatton-

Brown, Julie Henry, Catherine Herbert, Justin Hibbs, Denise Hickey, Sam Hodge, Bill Hudson, Catherine Jacobs,

Natasha Khan, Fernando Leon-Guiu, Claire Manning, Karolina Magnusson, Jennie Merrell, Julia Miranda, Diana

Mikula, Kate Murdoch, Kate Murray-Browne, Ed Parsons-Brown, Jane Ponsford, Chantal Purcell, Maire Quinn,

Christina Reading, Ana Ruepp, Julia Russsell, Wendy Saunders, Ryan Scullion, Lisa Snook, Lucy Soni, Paul Stanley,

Dani Tagen, Annabel Tilley, Rachel Wilberforce, Robert Worley, Carol Wyss, April Yasamee, Sophie Zhu.

Creating Communities.

Image courtesy of Bob&Roberta Smith

Kate Murdoch, 10x10 Project

CHALLENGES

Image courtesy of Ami Clarke

Ambition, expectation, aspirations. Internal & External. Balancing.

Sustainability. Engaging vs challenging. Reputation.

Image courtesy of Peter Liversidge

Belief, passion, ambition, dedication, drive, imagination, engaging,

nurturing, dialogues… Image courtesy of Mark Titchner

Image courtesy of Peter Liversidge

Everything & Anything is possible….