Research
Nicola Rae
Research Interests:
These include sound frequency visualisations as site-specific inquiry, and film as site-oriented analysis - other research interests include a socially situated and critically engaged artist/lecturer practice.
Biography:
Nicola Rae is an Associate Lecturer at Wimbledon College of Art - teaching and researching Critical & Contextual Studies in the Fine Art Foundation department.
Since 1995 her art practice has been based in London, at the collectively-organised APT Studios, Deptford. She has been a co-director of the artist group A2Arts since 1996 - proactively organising exchange exhibitions with other artist groups in Europe. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, alternative spaces and artist-run spaces within Europe for over fifteen years.
Her earthworks were included in the book 'Personal Structures: Works and Dialogues' (2003), organised by Rene Rietmeyer. Sixteen international artists including Callum Innes were interviewed by Peter Lodermeyer, and a series of related exhibitions, symposia and art fairs followed the book's launch.
Email address: nrae@a2arts.co.uk
Current Research
Research interests include analysing how the multimodal discourses of Fine Art Foundation students can keep informing a socially situated and critically engaged Contextual & Critical Studies. I am interested in reversing the psychological power relations inherent in interpretation and evaluation, through critical forums - making space for a more open, discursive dialogue in connection with audience responses to artworks.
This reflexively critical research has effected change within my own art practice, resulting in more site-aware media experimentation. Sound frequency visualisations, initially researched in 2001, have been developed further through a sound emission analysing computer program. 'Sound frequencies' works have included recording the curation of an exhibition, involving particular voices and impact sounds. The resulting sound visualisations were then exhibited two days later at the exhibition 'Threads'. Live sound frequency visualisations, which respond to audience participation, are currently being developed for the exhibition 'Perpetuum Mobile'.
'Interactions, Greenwich Peninsula, London 28-08-07' (a collaborative project with the Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park) involved filming estuarine and freshwater invertebrates through a microscope, interacting within confined environments. The site-specific sound track included evening flights taking off from London City Airport, passing cyclists, occasional traffic, waves breaking on the mud, and the sound of machinery from Prior's gravel works. These sounds contrasted with the noise of construction work on new homes, as government planning laws encourage ever increasing densities of housing on the peninsula.
Solo Exhibitions
2007
'wandobjecte mit sand', Marz Galerien, Mannheim, Germany. Feb-March
2004
'Earth in a Box II', Reuterweg 49, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. May. ( with Patrick Heide Art Projects )
2003
'Erdschichtungen', Gallerie Lausberg, Dusseldorf. Oct - Dec.
2002
'Earth in a Box', Latscha Haus, Kronberg, Germany. July ( with Patrick Heide Art Projects )
1999
'Earthed' (two person), 4 New Burlington St Gallery, London, W1 Feb.
1998
' Erdschichtungen', Durhammer Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany. Sept - Oct.
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2007
'Primavera:Punt WG', Punt WG Gallery, Atelier W.G., Amsterdam. April.
'Objects-Rooms', Galleria Ground's Art, Via Nazario Sauro 5, Parma, Italy. Sept.
2006
'Primavera', Tara Bryan Gallery, 10 Marshalsea Rd., London SE1. April
'Terra Incognita', Atelier W.G., M.v.B. Bastiaanssestraat 15,Amsterdam.Mar-April
'Threads', APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8. September
2005
'Sanctuary', APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8. September
'Personal Structures', Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany. March - April.
'Creek', River and Rowing Museum, Henley on Thames. Jan - Feb
2004
'Personal Structures', Galerie Arti Capelli, HW 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands .
Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. May ( with Patrick Heide Art Projects )
Düsseldorf Kunstakademie with Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf, Germany. Feb.
2003
'Mapping an Island', Patrick Heide Art Projects, 50A Church Street, NW8. Oct
'Creek', APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8. June
'Colourspace', APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8. March. ( curated by Clyde Hopkins and funded by Chelsea College of Art )
2002
'Terrafirma', Standort, Allerheiligenstrasse 7, Frankfurt. July
'10 Days in Deptford', APT Gallery, Deptford, London SE8. June - July
'Art on Paper Fair', Royal College of Art, London, SW7. Feb. ( with Gallery Niklas von Bartha )
2001
Rathausgalerien, Reinickendorf, Eichborndamm, Berlin, Germany. Oct - Nov.
'Waving not Drowning', Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight. July - Sept.
'New landscape to New England', 14 Old Bond St, London W1. June. (with Sara Pearce Works of Art)
'London Artists', Arndstrasse 1, 61462 Koenigstein, Germany. April. ( with Patrick Heide Art Projects )
2000
4 Minimalist Artists, Gallery Niklas von Bartha, London SW7. Dec - Feb.
'Terre à Terre', Maison de l'Art Actuel des Chartreux, Brussels, Belgium. Nov. Gallery Artists, Sara Pearce Works of Art, 14 Old Bond Street, W1. Jan - Dec.
1998
'Whitechapel Open', The Tannery, 57, Bermondsey St., London. SE1. March.
'Again and Again', Alberto Peola & Galleria Carbone, Turin, Italy. Jan - Feb ( curated by Francesca Piovano and sponsored by the British Council )
1997
'A2 Arts - London', Standort, Allerheiligenstrasse 7, Frankfurt, Germany. Oct.
1996
'Bayer Earth Art Prize Exhibition', Mall Galleries, London. October.
'Re-inventing Nature', Woodlands Art Gallery, London SE3. Jan - Feb.
Group exhibition, James Colman Gallery, Mossbury Rd, London SW11.March
1995
Mixed Exhibition, The Blue Gallery, 93, Walton Street, London SW3. Jan
'Quatre Artistes Anglais', Helios Gallery, Calais, France.April - May.
'Elemental', The Blue Gallery, 93 Walton Street, London SW3. July - Sept.
'Beside the Sea', Crescent Arts Workshop, Scarborough. July - Sept.
'Outpost' project, Venice Biennale, Italy. June 11 - 15 October
Publications
2007
artists'studios: creating public benefit
Two London case studies: ACAVA Blechynden Street studios and APT studios at Harold Works Funded by the Arts Council of England, Acme, Capital Studios.
2003
PERSONAL STRUCTURES: Works and Dialogues
Introduction and dialogue questions by Peter Lodermeyer.
(earthworks and interview with Peter on p.116-123)
+ Personal Structures symposium book ( named on p. 65 )
Awards
2006
Canterbury Christ Church University Award, for work on a Post Graduate Certificate in Education, at Lewisham College, London SE3 (2004-6).
1996
Winner of Sculpture section of the Bayer Earth Art Prize.
( selectors : David Mach, Brian Eno, Francis Graham-Dixon. )
'Bayer Earth Art Prize Exhibition', Mall Galleries, London. October.
Committees
2004-8
On APT Studios Management Committee as Ground Floor Rep.
Conferences/Symposia/Public
2007
Presentation for 'Rough Guide to Internationalism' at
'Research at Wimbledon: An International Perspective'
Research Week, Wimbledon College of Art (12/12/07)
Commissions
2001-2
Commission for Healing Arts, St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight.
Residences
1993
Artist Residency (6 weeks) at Atelier des Mouches,
Gueberschwhihr, Alsace, France.
(Printmaking residency with weekly workshops.)
Related Links
www.a2arts.co.uk/nrae
These include sound frequency visualisations as site-specific inquiry, and film as site-oriented analysis - other research interests include a socially situated and critically engaged artist/lecturer practice.
Biography:
Nicola Rae is an Associate Lecturer at Wimbledon College of Art - teaching and researching Critical & Contextual Studies in the Fine Art Foundation department.
Since 1995 her art practice has been based in London, at the collectively-organised APT Studios, Deptford. She has been a co-director of the artist group A2Arts since 1996 - proactively organising exchange exhibitions with other artist groups in Europe. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, alternative spaces and artist-run spaces within Europe for over fifteen years.
Her earthworks were included in the book 'Personal Structures: Works and Dialogues' (2003), organised by Rene Rietmeyer. Sixteen international artists including Callum Innes were interviewed by Peter Lodermeyer, and a series of related exhibitions, symposia and art fairs followed the book's launch.
Email address: nrae@a2arts.co.uk
Current Research
Research interests include analysing how the multimodal discourses of Fine Art Foundation students can keep informing a socially situated and critically engaged Contextual & Critical Studies. I am interested in reversing the psychological power relations inherent in interpretation and evaluation, through critical forums - making space for a more open, discursive dialogue in connection with audience responses to artworks.
This reflexively critical research has effected change within my own art practice, resulting in more site-aware media experimentation. Sound frequency visualisations, initially researched in 2001, have been developed further through a sound emission analysing computer program. 'Sound frequencies' works have included recording the curation of an exhibition, involving particular voices and impact sounds. The resulting sound visualisations were then exhibited two days later at the exhibition 'Threads'. Live sound frequency visualisations, which respond to audience participation, are currently being developed for the exhibition 'Perpetuum Mobile'.
'Interactions, Greenwich Peninsula, London 28-08-07' (a collaborative project with the Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park) involved filming estuarine and freshwater invertebrates through a microscope, interacting within confined environments. The site-specific sound track included evening flights taking off from London City Airport, passing cyclists, occasional traffic, waves breaking on the mud, and the sound of machinery from Prior's gravel works. These sounds contrasted with the noise of construction work on new homes, as government planning laws encourage ever increasing densities of housing on the peninsula.
Solo Exhibitions
2007
'wandobjecte mit sand', Marz Galerien, Mannheim, Germany. Feb-March
2004
'Earth in a Box II', Reuterweg 49, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. May. ( with Patrick Heide Art Projects )
2003
'Erdschichtungen', Gallerie Lausberg, Dusseldorf. Oct - Dec.
2002
'Earth in a Box', Latscha Haus, Kronberg, Germany. July ( with Patrick Heide Art Projects )
1999
'Earthed' (two person), 4 New Burlington St Gallery, London, W1 Feb.
1998
' Erdschichtungen', Durhammer Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany. Sept - Oct.
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2007
'Primavera:Punt WG', Punt WG Gallery, Atelier W.G., Amsterdam. April.
'Objects-Rooms', Galleria Ground's Art, Via Nazario Sauro 5, Parma, Italy. Sept.
2006
'Primavera', Tara Bryan Gallery, 10 Marshalsea Rd., London SE1. April
'Terra Incognita', Atelier W.G., M.v.B. Bastiaanssestraat 15,Amsterdam.Mar-April
'Threads', APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8. September
2005
'Sanctuary', APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8. September
'Personal Structures', Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany. March - April.
'Creek', River and Rowing Museum, Henley on Thames. Jan - Feb
2004
'Personal Structures', Galerie Arti Capelli, HW 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands .
Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. May ( with Patrick Heide Art Projects )
Düsseldorf Kunstakademie with Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf, Germany. Feb.
2003
'Mapping an Island', Patrick Heide Art Projects, 50A Church Street, NW8. Oct
'Creek', APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8. June
'Colourspace', APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London SE8. March. ( curated by Clyde Hopkins and funded by Chelsea College of Art )
2002
'Terrafirma', Standort, Allerheiligenstrasse 7, Frankfurt. July
'10 Days in Deptford', APT Gallery, Deptford, London SE8. June - July
'Art on Paper Fair', Royal College of Art, London, SW7. Feb. ( with Gallery Niklas von Bartha )
2001
Rathausgalerien, Reinickendorf, Eichborndamm, Berlin, Germany. Oct - Nov.
'Waving not Drowning', Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight. July - Sept.
'New landscape to New England', 14 Old Bond St, London W1. June. (with Sara Pearce Works of Art)
'London Artists', Arndstrasse 1, 61462 Koenigstein, Germany. April. ( with Patrick Heide Art Projects )
2000
4 Minimalist Artists, Gallery Niklas von Bartha, London SW7. Dec - Feb.
'Terre à Terre', Maison de l'Art Actuel des Chartreux, Brussels, Belgium. Nov. Gallery Artists, Sara Pearce Works of Art, 14 Old Bond Street, W1. Jan - Dec.
1998
'Whitechapel Open', The Tannery, 57, Bermondsey St., London. SE1. March.
'Again and Again', Alberto Peola & Galleria Carbone, Turin, Italy. Jan - Feb ( curated by Francesca Piovano and sponsored by the British Council )
1997
'A2 Arts - London', Standort, Allerheiligenstrasse 7, Frankfurt, Germany. Oct.
1996
'Bayer Earth Art Prize Exhibition', Mall Galleries, London. October.
'Re-inventing Nature', Woodlands Art Gallery, London SE3. Jan - Feb.
Group exhibition, James Colman Gallery, Mossbury Rd, London SW11.March
1995
Mixed Exhibition, The Blue Gallery, 93, Walton Street, London SW3. Jan
'Quatre Artistes Anglais', Helios Gallery, Calais, France.April - May.
'Elemental', The Blue Gallery, 93 Walton Street, London SW3. July - Sept.
'Beside the Sea', Crescent Arts Workshop, Scarborough. July - Sept.
'Outpost' project, Venice Biennale, Italy. June 11 - 15 October
Publications
2007
artists'studios: creating public benefit
Two London case studies: ACAVA Blechynden Street studios and APT studios at Harold Works Funded by the Arts Council of England, Acme, Capital Studios.
2003
PERSONAL STRUCTURES: Works and Dialogues
Introduction and dialogue questions by Peter Lodermeyer.
(earthworks and interview with Peter on p.116-123)
+ Personal Structures symposium book ( named on p. 65 )
Awards
2006
Canterbury Christ Church University Award, for work on a Post Graduate Certificate in Education, at Lewisham College, London SE3 (2004-6).
1996
Winner of Sculpture section of the Bayer Earth Art Prize.
( selectors : David Mach, Brian Eno, Francis Graham-Dixon. )
'Bayer Earth Art Prize Exhibition', Mall Galleries, London. October.
Committees
2004-8
On APT Studios Management Committee as Ground Floor Rep.
Conferences/Symposia/Public
2007
Presentation for 'Rough Guide to Internationalism' at
'Research at Wimbledon: An International Perspective'
Research Week, Wimbledon College of Art (12/12/07)
Commissions
2001-2
Commission for Healing Arts, St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight.
Residences
1993
Artist Residency (6 weeks) at Atelier des Mouches,
Gueberschwhihr, Alsace, France.
(Printmaking residency with weekly workshops.)
Related Links
www.a2arts.co.uk/nrae