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Lisa Temple-Cox
About
My studio practice has developed within and investigates the mediums of collage, assemblage, installation and sculpture. Its primary focus is the philosophical category of the self: I have used methods and approaches of ethnography as part of a practice that explores my own identity as an artist.
My activity has been inspired by masks and medical moulages, as well as the technoloies and apparatuses of nineteenth century medicine and their museum display, the tradition of vanitas painting and the aesthetic techniques closely associated with avant-gardism of the early twentieth century such as the ready-made.
My interests philosophically lie in exploring the realms of identity, personal history, and conscious–or unconscious–ness through the intersections of art and science.
I have been making experimental work inspired by methods of preserving the human body documented in the medical museum, framed by the aesthetics and discourse of the vanitas. These practical and theoretical explorations have raised questions such as: to what extent does the head represent the self or express personality? And are there other parts of the body that raise similar issues of identity and subjectivity?
What has emerged from my academic and practical research is an understanding of how we interact with specimen display within the contexts of the art exhibition and medical display, and its relationship to questions of self and subjectivity. This is my proposed project for the next year: to explore the interstices of art and science, and develop a deeper understanding of my self and my practice in the process.
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- Location
- Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom
- Website
- http://www.lisatemple-cox.co.uk
Selected recent workshops, school residencies, and public art:
2010
‘Journey to the Podium’ artist and sportsperson collaboration, Essex County Council.
‘Sports and Arts’ Creative Partnerships project, Feering Primary School, Feering.
'WorldWideRivers' Creative Partnerships project, Tyrrells School, Chelmsford.
2009
‘Wickford Library Timeline’ mural with local children and residents, Wickford.
Creative Partnerships residency in Montgomery Infants School, Colchester: working with boxes and found objects to encourage storytelling.
‘Time Travel Day’, Cave painting workshop at Wargrave House School, Merseyside.
2008
‘Creative Conveniences’, public art project initiated by Colchester Arts Development, three artists creating designs and artwork for public toilets in key tourist locations in Colchester and Dedham. Working with local community and schools, and in collaboration with Kate Farley and Andy Hazell.
‘Lucy Lane Underpass’ working with Stanway School and the community to decorate a 40m underpass. Collaboration with artist David Earl Dixon.
‘Monkwick Bunker Project’ working with children and residents to decorate a WW2 bunker on an estate in Colchester.
2007
‘Chinese New Year’ week long residency at Hollytrees Museum, Colchester.
‘Cave Art’ week long residency at Colchester Castle Museum.
Rowhedge Village Hall: mural commemorating Rowhedge Heritage, assisted by villagers of all ages.
2006
‘2nd floor mural’: mixed-media project with young people at Occasio House, Harlow.
‘Widecombe House garden enhancement project’: working with a garden designer to create outdoor artworks with adults with learning difficulties. East Potential, London.
2006
Salarybrook Mural: subway mural project working with members of Greenstead Youth centre and student volunteers from Essex University.
2005
‘Nature Boxes’: mixed media workshops inspired by the natural history work of John Ray. Braintree museum and John Ray Junior School.
'Riverside Living Project': working with Gateway groups in Colchester and Braintree, to produce an interpretation panel in Halstead. Working with sculptor Gary Thrussell, Mencap, Colchester and Braintree Museums and River Colne Conservation group.
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Fine Art Foundation, Suffolk College, Ipswich.
Applied Arts diploma, Colchester School of Art.
MA 'Arts in a Social Context', Colchester School of Art/University of Essex
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Events & Exhibitions
Events
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions / collaborations:
2011
"Interstice/Confluence" residency/installation(with Anne Barclay), Benham Gallery, Colchester, Essex.
2010
"The Double-Skinned Shed", St Martins Church, Colchester.
"An Order of Things", Minories Gallery, Colchester. Dec2010 - Jan 2011
2009
“The Double-Skinned Shed”: residency/installation, Benham Gallery, Colchester.
2008
‘The Wearable Vanitas and other work’: Platform Gallery, Mistley
‘Expérience 1: un Squelette Humain’: Benham Gallery, Colchester.
2007
‘Day of the Triffids’: site-specific sculpture, with Natasha Carsberg. Cunlhat, France.
'Enclosure': installation with Tim Skinner and Kim Barclay. Benham Gallery, Colchester.
2006
‘Everything and More’: installation, Benham Gallery, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester.
‘Georgia’s Footsteps’: Hector Croot, Colchester.
2005
‘Everything and More’: site-specific installation, environmental art, and other work created during residency at the Chateau de Sacy: Picardie, France.
Selected group exhibitions:
2011
“The Wheel Turns”, Embrace Arts, University of Leicester
2010
"Journey to the Podium", Gibberd Gallery, Harlow. Nov 2010 - Jan 2011
“Conversations”, Minories Gallery, Colchester. Dec2010 - Jan 2011
“Paradiso Contrapasso”, Observatory, New York, USA
“Women Artists in 2010”, New Brunswick, Canada
“Outside”, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester.
“Fluxface in Space”, Fluxmuseum, Texas, USA
2009
“Work in Progress”, Minories Gallery and Slackspace Gallery, Colchester
“Base”: TAP pre-launch show, Co-exist Gallery, Southend
“Art2Wear: Accoutrements”: Ontario International Airport, Los Angeles, USA.
‘Long Nights’: William Angel Gallery, London.
'Essex Summer of Art': Hylands House, Chelmsford
2008
‘Secrets’: interactive group installation, The Foundry, London.
‘Surrounds’: sculpture trail, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester.
‘Wearable Expressions’: Palos Verdes Arts Centre, California.
‘Allotments’: Standing Room at Harrington Mills Studios, Nottingham.
2007
‘I came, I saw’: Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich.
2005
Cuckoo Farm Studios group show, Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings.
2004
'Dust to Dust': University Gallery, Essex University.
Residencies:
2008
“Rainforest/Essex” Writtle College (CADE)
2008
John C Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina USA
2007
Chantiers des Arts, Cunlhat, France. Collaboration with Natasha Carsberg.
2005
“Everything and More” Artist in Residence at the Chateau De Sacy, Picardie, France.
1998
“Wavering” Chelmsford, Essex.
1997
“Ogni Dove” Artist in Residence at Damanhur, Italy.
Awards and prizes:
2010 Wood Institute travel grant to work in the Mutter Museum, Philadephia,
USA
2008 “Best in Show Accessory” for ‘Vanitas 4:Night Creatures’, Wearable Expressions,
Palos Verdes Arts Centre, California, USA.
2008 “Art in the Built Environment”: Colchester2020 and RIBA Architectural award for
‘Creative Conveniences’, Lion Walk toilets.
Public Collections:
Morbid Anatomy Library: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Fluxmuseum: Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Colchester Central Library, Essex, UK
Colchester Arts Centre, Essex, UK
Articles and publications:
The Artist in our Midst 2, Green Pebble Publications, Autumn 2010
East Anglian Daily Times, “Artists turned loose in the loos”, Martin Newell, May 2nd 2009
Green Pebble Magazine, “Mind the Gap”, Ruby Ormerod, Winter 2009/2010 … Read More
