1Brass Art_Freuds House the double mirror
Freud’s House The Double Mirror, 2015 Installation view at International 3 Gallery, Salford. Commissioned through Salford University Commission to Collect programme. Binaural audio/ video installation 5mins looped video, wireless headphones.

 

Brass Art

Chara Lewis Kristin Mojsiewicz Anneké Pettican

S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
2015 Brass Art: Freud’s House International 3, Manchester & The Manchester Contemporary
2013 The Imagining of Things Huddersfield Art Gallery, with Alistair MacDonald
The Air which Held Them Barnaby Festival, Christ Church, Macclesfield
2010 The Non-existence of the Unnamed The International3, Manchester
2008 Skyscraping Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
2007 Here and Elsewhere Globe City Gallery, Newcastle
2006 Brass Art: beside ourselves The International3, Manchester
2005 Phantasmagoria The Lowry, Salford. New audio commission by Matt Wand

G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
2016 Cultural R>evolution ISEA 2016, Hong Kong
2015 The Festival of the Unconscious The Freud Museum, London
Thought Positions in Sculpture ROTOR, Huddersfield Art Gallery
2014 Art in the Home #2 Contemporary Art Society, York
Last Dark Music of the Painted Night – film screening – Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
2013 Leave the Capitol The Fleming Collection, London
Time for Light Bury Art Museum, Lancashire
Mirrors of the Mind – film screening – Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
WE-culture Experimental Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
2012 Flights of Fancy Tatton Park Biennial, Cheshire. Curated by Danielle Arnaud & Jordan Kaplan
Private Radio City Tower, Liverpool
Generation XYZ Haymarket Gallery, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
SPARK3D Gallery13, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
2011 Dark Matters Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
2010 The Economy of the Gift A Foundation, Liverpool, and audio commission with Monty Adkins
Inside Out Object Gallery, Sydney, Royal College of Art, London, MIRIAD, Manchester
Concrete and Glass Hoxton Square, London, group show and audio festival
2009 Tell it to the Trees Croft Castle, National Trust, Herefordshire
Not At This Address Bury Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester
The Kiss of a Lifetime (parts 1 & 2) Rogue Project Space, Manchester VANE, Newcastle
2008 The Jerwood Drawing Prize The Jerwood Space, London and National touring show
ArtFutures 08 Bloomberg Space, London
Rotate Contemporary Art Society, London
When Absence Becomes Presence Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, USA
2007 Turnstile Outside of Parallel The Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University
repeat repeat University College Chester
2006 Story Alexia Goethe Gallery, London
2005 2LIVE Koroska Fine Arts Gallery, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia. International photography
Conversations on the subject of Feminism The Cornerhouse, Manchester
Text Festival Commissioned text piece installed at Radcliffe Metro Station
The Text Bury Museum and Art Gallery, Bury, Lancashire
Outvideo National Centre for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2003 The Brewster Project Brewster, New York. Curated by Jane Benson
Artranspennine 03 Sites across North of England. Curated by Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson
Seesaw Artist exchange and curated exhibition with Atelier Grammophon, Hanover
Look to this Day Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Eve of Destruction (parts one and two) The International3 Summer Fête, Manchester Manchester Portfolio – artist editions – London Print Studio and The Lowry, Salford
2002 No-place Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery. Sponsored by Pentax UK & PCL
2001 microMuseum Medi@terra Athens-Lavrion, Sofia, Belgrade, Maribor, Frankfurt, Osnabrück
Ich bin Galerie 2YK, Berlin. Curated by Brass Art
CF-01 Communication Front Symposium, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2000 Paradise Revisited Bury Museum and Art Gallery and weekly intervention in the Bury Times
Creation of Destruction Video Medeja 5 Film & Video Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
Autoparts: Phantasmagoria IDEA (Innovation in Digital and Electronic Arts) digital commission
1999 Dream Inspires Better World Gallery, Ove Arup and Partners, Manchester
STALK Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester, MART 99. Curated by Brass Art
1998 Our Night at the Palace The Palace Hotel, Digital Summer & ISEA98:Terror

P U B L I C A T I O N S
2015 Brass Art: A house within a house within a house within a house. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, vol 7 no.3. Intellect Books & Writing Pad ISSN: 17535190/ Online ISSN: 17535204
Brass Art: A Constellation – thoughts in process Thought Positions in Sculpture online: <https://www.hud.ac.uk/research/researchcentres/st/thoughtpositionsinsculpture/brassart/>
2014 Brass Art: The Imagining of Things, Dr. Susannah Thompson, ROTOR: Transdisciplinary Dialogue and Debate, University of Huddersfield Press, pp. 42-44. Texts incl. Griselda Pollock &Peter Suchin
2013 The Creation of a Collective Voice chapter in Collaboration through Craft: Theory and
Practice. Eds. Helen Felcey, Alice Kettle, and Amanda Ravetz. Bloomsbury Publishers: London.
2012 Leonardo Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. Special Issue ACM SIGGRAPH – MIT Press – Volume 45 / Number 4
Tatton Park Biennial 2012 Flights of Fancy Authors: Cherry Smyth, Rebecca Geldard, Danielle Arnaud, Jordan Kaplan. ISBN978-09571626-0-0
2011 The 2nd International Conference on 3D Body Scanning Technologies conference publication ISBN 978 3 03303134 0
Corridor8 #3 The Quick Slow Edition, Part 1. ISBN 9 780955 267260
2010 ISEA2010: RUHR conference publication – peer reviewed papers. ISBN 978 3 86895 103 5
Corridor8 #2 – The Borderlands issue. ISBN 978 0 9552672 3 9
A Bulletin Issue 5 – The Economy of the Gift
InsideOut – Sculpture in the Digital Age University of Technology Sydney, RMIT University, Australia, De Montfort University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Dartington College of Arts. ISBN 9781857214093
Research in Action University of Huddersfield – issue 1, Spring
2008 Skyscraping Essays by David Thorp & Clare Lilley. Yorkshire Sculpture Park. ISBN 1 871480 65 5
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2008 ISBN 13 978 0955664670
2007 Negotiated Positions Exhibition Catalogue. Published by CPARA Centre for Practice as Research in the Arts at the University of Chester. ISBN 978 1 905929 21 4
2005 2LIVE Koroska Fine Arts Gallery, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia. ISBN 961 91463 1 X
2005 Galanty publication, i3 Manchester, distibuted by Cornerhouse. Essays: Nick Crowe & Sharon Kivland. Design: Book Lab, Glasgow. ISBN 0 9542059 7 1
www.brassart.org.uk Database programmed by anthropo. Survey texts by Natasha Howes, Dr Kerstin Mey, Sharon Kivland, Dr Louise Milne, Dr Patricia Allmer, Lisa LeFeuvre.
2002 No-place Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery. Essay: Sharon Kivland
2000 Autoparts cat. IDEA digital commissions. Essays: Jen Southern & Emma Posey
1999 STALK publication, Manchester Metropolitan University Faculty of Art & Design. Design: Nick Fry & Brass Art. Text: Sue Hubbard & Tracey Sanders-Wood. ISBN 1 90075611 0
1998 Our Night At The Palace catalogue, Trice Publications 1998. ISBN 0 9531919 15
Foreword: Sean Cubitt. Design: Sue Clements

R E S I D E N C I E S
2012 Creative Lab Residency, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow

G R A N T S
2010 Association of Art Historians Grant for collaboration
2009 Arts Council England – Research and Development Award
2008 AHRC small grants (A.Pettican) Digital Doubles
2007 Arts Council England, Friends of Yorkshire Sculpture Park
2005 The British Council, Arts Council England, Trafford City Council
2004 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England
2003 Working with Artists Award, Arts Council England
2003 The British Council
2002 Artist’s Franchise Award, North West Arts Board
2001 The British Council, North West Arts Board, Artist’s Franchise Award, North West Arts Board
2000 North West Arts Board

C O N F E R E N C E S / T A L K S / P R E S E N T A T I O N S
2015 Brass Art in conversation with Roger Malbert The International 3, Salford
Folds in Time: artists’ responses to the temporal and the uncanny The Freud Museum, London. Keynotes: Alison Rowley, Patricia Allmer. Invited artists, curators and writers in discussion, part of Festival of the Unconscious. Brass Art, Daniel Silver, Lindsay Seers, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Rebecca Fortnum, Pavel Pyś. Hosted by Brass Art.
Arts in Heritage North National Trust and Arts Council England Network Event, Cheshire
2014 CHArt conference Conformity, Process and Deviation: Digital Arts as Outsider, Kings College Festival of the Humanities, London
2013 Contemporary Art Society talk, Christ Church, Macclesfield
Royal Society of The Arts panel debate the Responsible Artist, Royal Academy, London Contemporary Art Society talk, Christ Church Macclesfield
2012 Siggraph, Los Angeles
School of Design, Edinburgh College of Art
Future Forms Conference, MIRIAD, Manchester
2011 Technologies of Drawing, University of Huddersfield
The 2nd International Conference on 3D Body Scanning Technologies, Lugano, Switzerland
2011 Staging Illusion: Digital & Cultural Fantasy, University of Sussex
Pairings, Manchester Metropolitan University
2010 ISEA2010: RUHR Dortmund, Germany
Arts & Business, International 3, Manchester
2009 Light Reading series 9, No.w.here, London. Brass Art with Coline Milliard
2009 Evolution Festival Lumen, Leeds Metropolitan Gallery
2007 Upgrade! New Media Scotland, Dundee Contemporary Arts
2006 Creative Dates North West Art and Design Research Group, Liverpool John Moores University
2002 Leeds Metropolitan University
1999 Ove Arup and Partners, Manchester

P R E S S
2015 Brass Art Robert Clarke – Guardian Guide Preview – 19th Sep
Artists and the Uncanny: Shadow Worlds at Freud’s House interview – Pippa Koszerek –
<https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/artists-and-the-uncanny-shadow-worlds-at-freuds-house>
Frightening with its familiarity: Freud’s House review <http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk>
Brass Art: Freud’s House review
2013 Hear and Now review – Sara Mohr-Pietsch – Radio 3 – 28th Dec
2012 Tatton Park Biennial 2012 review – David Trigg – Frieze – issue 149
Tatton Park Biennial 2012 review – Jeremy Hunt – Art &Architecture Journal Press – 16th May
2011 Dark Matters <http://www.corridor8.co.uk/blog/shadowing-dark-matters>
Dark Matters <http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/08/art-technological-illusion>
2010 Concrete and Glass The Guide – Guardian 8th May
InsideOut Australian Design Review – 19th May
InsideOut Design Federation – Australia – Klaus Kinski – 7th Jun
InsideOut Curve magazine – Australia – Aug/Sept Issue
The Economy of the Gift review – Richard Unwin – Frieze – 26th April
2008 Skyscraping Robert Clarke – Guardian Guide – 15th Apr
The Broom of the System – essay – Louise Milne, Tramway, Glasgow – 31st Oct
2007 Artists reclaim their skyline review – David Whetstone – Newcastle Journal – May 12th
2005 Phantasmagoria Robert Clarke – Guardian Guide Preview – April 30th – May 5th
The Text David Briers – Art Monthly – May 287
Phantastic Females Rachel Pugh – Manchester Evening News – April 22nd
Front Row Radio 4 interview – March
2003 Artranspennine03 review – Neil Mulholland – Frieze – Nov/Dec issue
2001 Ich bin Axel Lapp – Art Monthly – Sep
Artistic licence Sue Latimer – Museums Journal – Aug
Paradise Revisited preview – [a-n] magazine – Jan
2000 Paradise Revisited Martin Vincent – News North West – 14th Nov
Credit Card Interface Jen Southern – [a-n] magazine – Sept
Auto arts Tim Birch – City Life, Manchester. 14-29 June pg 50 Issue 408
1999 art mart Lena Corner – i-D magazine – The Elevator Issue – Oct
for art get mart Tim Birch – City Life Magazine, Manchester – 29 Sept-14 Oct. 390
1998 Our Night at The Palace Daniel Brocklehurst – City Life Review – 9-24 Sept. 363

E S S A Y S
2015 Reflections | Iterations Joanna Morra
2014 Brass Art: The Imagining of Things Susannah Thompson
The Imagining of Things introduction Anna Powell
2010 Non-existence of the Unnamed – Pinching a Shadow Patricia Allmer
2008 Skyscraping introduction Claire Lilley
Brass Art. Beside themselves David Thorp
2007 Animals that from a long way off look like flies Lisa Le Feuvre
2005 Their Dark Materials Nick Crowe
2002 No Place: An Itinerary Sharon Kivland
2001 Wer bin ich? Natasha Howes
2000 Credit Card Interface Jen Southern
Paradise Revisited Louise Milne
1999 Hotel foreword Sean Cubitt
Hotel Sue Hubbard
STALK Graham Parker

A R T F A I R S & N O M I N A T I O N S
2015 The Manchester Contemporary Spinningfields, Manchester
2015 Brass Art Margaret Tait Award nominated
2014 The Manchester Contemporary Spinningfields, Manchester
2010 The Manchester Contemporary Spinningfields, Manchester
2005-7 ZOO Art Fair London
2007 Preview Berlin Germany
2007 Brass Art The Northern Art Prize nominated
2003 Brass Art The Art Prize North nominated

C O M M I S S I O N S
2014 Freud’s House: The Double Commission to Collect programme, University of Salford, Manchester
2013 The Air which Held Them ACE commission for Barnaby Festival, Macclesfield
2011 Shortlisted Lyric Hammersmith – Richard Wentworth, David Batchelor, Tim Knowles, Brass Art
2009 Witness Tree Croft Castle, Herefordshire – installed at Coningsby Hospital, Hereford
2005 From the Tower Falls the Shadow Text Festival installed at Radcliffe Metrolink, Lancashire
2000 Phantasmagoria Innovation in Digital & Electronic Art [IDEA] – Digital Commission, Salford
2000 Inseparable Companion IDEA digital commission with Spencer Roberts

C O L L E C T I O N S & P R O F E S S I O N A L B O D I E S
Arts Council England Collection, Government Art Collection, National Centre for Contemporary Art Ekaterinburg, Russia. Private Collections in Britain, America and South Africa.
Invited Artist member of Contemporary Art Society
Represented by The International3, Manchester
http://www.international3.com

Web: www.brassart.org.uk
Contemporary Art Society: http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/artist-members/brass-art/
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/155520719
Twitter: brass_art99

2Brass Art-Still Life
Still Life no.1, Dark Matters: Shadow Technology Art, Whitworth Art Gallery 2011 mixed media installation

 

3BrassArt_The_Air_which_Held_Them_BURY copy
The Air which Held Them, 2014 Ripstop nylon, cold air fans.

 

4Brass Art Apparition 01
Apparition no.1 2014 15cm x 21 cm LED lightbox with duratrans Edition of 6 plus Artist Proofs

 

5BrassArt The Unnamed_no.4
The Unnamed no.4 2010 Watercolour on paper Unframed dimensions 50cm x 40cm