a place for action expressed

a blog by artist debbie sharp

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I have a small written blog piece about the stone craving workshop i took part in over summer at The Yorkshire Sculpture Park 

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Debbie Sharp

Live recording 

“Static Memory #3”

Previously unreleased recording

The Wire Below The Radar 16 Track 15

http://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/btr/below-the-radar-16/15

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I've been working on designing the stage set as well as lots of other things for a play called Menarche.

The play is a new musical play written by musician Una Baines and produced with the young people at Gorse Hill Studios. The set, dancing, drumming, martial arts and percussion is all developed during special one off workshops at Gorse Hill Studios for young people. I with fellow artist Rosanne Robertson helped deliver these workshops.

It was a great to work on a play and think about different elements of stage design. I especially enjoyed working with the young people of Gorse Hill Studios on the workshop and also helping them be included in the production and delivery of the play.

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2 Actions i performed and installed on the workshop paradoxparadox at HOME manchester during this intense 5 8 hour days in october 2016

During five days, from Mon 10 Oct through to Fri 14 Oct 2016, Rafael Abdala and Jessica Goes will develop a series of collective activities with artists based in Greater Manchester. Spending eight hours each day in a collaborative space, they will entice their creativity and go deep into experimentation and multi-authorial creative processes.

Paradoxparadox is a process-based project, with no interest in “what” or “why”. The workshop activities will focus on “how” we get into the creative process. Starting with provocative exercises and with the aid of ‘trigger materials’, the participants will dive into the void of experimentation, with no fixed ideas or final outcome in mind. The idea of experimentation – without knowing and without a need to extract meanings from the experience – leads us to a paradoxical way of creating and collaborating: Deep into nothingness, in full embodiment, living the experience, collectively.

http://www.protovoulia.info

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some photos of my Performance “ THE WORKER” inspired by the archives of the artist Cliff Rowe. Taken at The People’s History Museum event for Manchester after hours 12/5/16 

THE WORKER

Live sound performance by artist Debbie Sharp Taking inspiration from the paintings of Cliff Rowe such as " Women Working"  and  "Man At Work With Mirror Image". These intimate portraits reflecting a British industry of a skilled workforce that is almost extinct today. The skilled hand of the worker and the skilled hand of the artist are brought together in blocks of colour and detail.

Sharp will be create a performance that reflex's this meeting of artist and worker. With live sound making, spoken word taken from Cliff Rowe's sketch books and a intimate visual experience

Artist Cliff Rowe (1904-1989) sought to represent industry and working life through his art.  A Communist, his work primarily depicts industrial workplace scenes, men and women calmly operating machinery, often skilled and somewhat scientific. http://www.phm.org.uk/our-collection/object-of-the-month/april-2016-woman-working-by-cliff-rowe/

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News

LIVE PERFORMANCE 

LIVE ART BISTRO LEEDS  New Work Yorkshire - Closing Event  24TH MARCH 

http://www.liveartleeds.com 

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Building structures

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Headwear inspiration for performance

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Suffragette-defaced penny, Mass Production, Mass Persuasion (1780 - 1914 AD), A History of the World in 100 Objects - BBC Radio 4

Neil MacGregor with a penny coin defaced by suffragettes with the words "Votes for women".

TEXT on METAL used as a political protest Tool

This penny, struck in 1903, has been defaced with the slogan 'Votes for Women' over the portrait of King Edward VII. At the start of Edward VII's reign women, along with the poor and criminals, were denied the right to vote. Mutilating coins was one of the methods suffragettes used to spread their message of universal suffrage to a wide audience. Pennies were used by all sections of society and were so small a denomination they were rarely recalled by the Bank.

These are great podcasts of the history of 100 objects bbd radio 4

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DYRGE 

Song to be performed at the Tomb.

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The Art Of Death

Last week i attended a really insightful talk at The Henry Moore Institute 

which was part of the Katrina Palmer: The Necropolitan Line exhibition.

the Talks by Dr Jessica Barker with “ The Voices of the Dead : Ventriloquism and sculpture in the later middle ages” 

and  Dr Irene Noy “Sonic Imagination in modern sculpture” 

Were very interesting in particularly learning about dirge and “the absent as present” in regards to The Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral and The Fitzalan Chapel Effigys and tomb monuments. 

These great iron structures of brass,bronze,marble, with speech scrolls voices of the dead to ring out in the present by the performers who recited them.

“ have mercy on me my lord, save me, because my hope is in you “

The last talk was by Professor Nigel Llewellyn

who is also the author of The Art of Death.

Pro Liewellyn talk about this exhibition “ the Art of Death at the V&A and about 

visual culture in the english death ritual of the post Reformation time 1500-1800  which was fascinating to hear about so much so i ordered the book the next day.

This is really helping me with my on going research and art practice looking at Death and how we remember with places and monuments.   

 Also its so good to be able to attend free talks at The Henry Moore Institute , what a great place and resource to have in Yorkshire. 

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Grave Yard Experiments for new monument works.

copper rubbings over grave stones.

ideas for future covering of gravestone heads to produce a new instu installation. 

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Emmanuel-Louis Mas Amiens Cathedral protected from bombing 1940

researching for new monument works and came across this amazing image 

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Shots from The Penthouse at Sluice__ 2015 at Oxo Tower Wharf, Southbank London October 16-18 2015. Works by Rosanne Robertson & Debbie Sharp.

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Lots of great inspiration in London at the Tate's modern and Briton but also the Houses of Parliament

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news/up coming exhibitions

Masquerade // Murmuration

Sluice, October 2015, Oxo Building- Southbank (London).

Masquerade // Murmuration is a two person show by artists and founders of The Penthouse Debbie Sharp and Rosanne Robertson with a mini accompanying sound and performance program.

Masquerade / by Rosanne Robertson exhibits inner forces and discord that manifests in relationships with and between objects, assemblage, costume, sound and performance sculpture. Freedoms and limits are demonstrated against each other in compositions celebrating form amongst chaos and chaos amongst form. Interactions and improvisations with assemblage and performance sculpture punctuate the exhibition and roam Sluice 2015.

http://www.rosannerobertson.com

/ Murmuration by Debbie Sharp exhibits external forces of nature and physics with silent investigations via internal structures of sound and matter with works that are drawn from the darkness of existence in-between life and death.

http://www.debbie-sharp.com

Masquerading Objects, Rosanne Robertson.

Murmuration 1, Debbie Sharp.

sluiceSluice Website (2015 site to be launched Sept 2015)