Dec 112012
The Words Are Flooding The Studio (1) - Emma Bolland
Join us for a relaxed and informative evening with artist Emma Bolland. Emma will show and talk about her work and the ideas behind it and will be happy to take questions.
This Friday 14th December at Inkwell
Starts : 6pm
Free entry
Light refreshments available
ARTIST BIO
I am an artist and writer based in Leeds. My visual practice has dealt largely with narratives of danger and sexual risk filtered through the lens of site, landscape, and folk myth. I am currently working on a text / image collaboration with author David Peace, (The Red Riding Quartet, The Damned United et al), which includes performative research with curator and writer Judit Bodor, and whose final outcomes will include a ‘picture book’ publication. A research blog for this project can be found at http://youwillhearmecall.wordpress.com/ My writing has ranged from poetry, to formal ‘art reviews’, and meditations on visual spectacle. Both my visual practice and my writing attempt to combine and counterbalance political and social awareness with romantic and emotional sensibilities.
Emma has worked on many projects with people with mental health service users.
She is currently developing a project in partnership with Arts&Minds Leeds, Inkwell (Leeds Mind), Love Arts Leeds Festival, and Leedsand York NHS Partnership Trust. The project titled Place And Memory: will involve mental health service users to creating a film about places in the city that have meaning for them. Emma has also worked with The Becklin Centre, Nhs Trust Psychiatric Hospital Art Therapy Suite, Leeds Mind Inkewll and The Art House Mentoring Scheme.
More about Emma Bolland
Emmas has a MA in Fine Art from ManchesterMetropolitanUniversity and a BA Hons Fine Art from First Leeds Polytechnic. Emma is an an experienced art writer and blogger and has worked as a guest speaker, tutor and lecturer at Leeds, Huddersfield and wolverhampton Universities. http://youwillhearmecall.wordpress.com/
Emma’s work has been exhibited throught the Uk from PSL and East Street Arts Leeds to Generator projects in Dundee and Europe via Con/temporary Gallery Berlin.
Emma Bolland
