Curious Planet

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Antony Hall is a multimedia artist working between the boundaries of art and science and has a special interest in optics, perception and the physics of light.

He is interested in how we interface with science and technology; visually, physically and ideologically; and how these interactions effect us creatively and socially. This takes the form of long-term research projects, residencies, performance, web-based art, electro-acoustic sound art. Often working within contexts such as universities and museums, in collaboration with scientists.

He is a  founding member of the the electronic arts group 'Owl Project'. And has performed and exhibited in the UK and across Europe.

www.antonyhall.net

Jane works individually and collaboratively as a visual & live artist.  She is particularly interested in making multi-media work which engages directly with the public by temporarily transforming public space through installation and/or performance, objects or interactions which cause a brief shift to the everyday, a double take or sharing of the subconscious. 

With ACE funding, she developed ‘Wunderkammer’ a series of 5 ‘peepshows’ each one encapsulating a different intimate experience on a miniature journey of illusion using early animation techniques, shadows, evocative sound tracks, zoetrope, magical mirrors & lenses; an installation created for outdoor and unusual spaces that she tours to festivals including The Garden of Delights, Manchester; Big in Falkirk, Scotland; Watch This Space, National Theatre, London; Somerset House, London and Medway Fuse Festival. She was recently selected for inclusion in the book Made in Medway which was published in October 2007.

She occasionally performs with French street theatre company Jamais 2sans3 using French spoken word & improvised public interaction around a cinema in a car or camper van, with super 8 film & live sound effects. She was awarded an Arts Council International Fellowship for Street Arts in 2003, and spent a month at L’Abbatoir, Chalon-sur-Saone, France working with French company 26000 couverts.

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John Woolrich’s music has been commissioned and performed by many organisations, including the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Salzburg and the Proms. Both the Philharmonia and the BBC Scottish SO have devoted concerts to his music.

His future commissions include works for the London Sinfonietta and a violin
concerto for Carolin Widmann and the Northern Sinfonia.

John Woolrich is Associate Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival and Artist in Association with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.
www.johnwoolrich.com

Katherine May is a Kent based writer who has recently published her first collection of short stories, Ghosts And Their Uses with Urban Fox Press.

 Since taking up writing in 2002, her poems and short stories have been widely acclaimed. In 2005 she won the Folkestone Literary Festival short story prize for Whistling up the Wind, and gained third place in the Killie Writer of the Year Prize. She has also edited several anthologies, including The Mermaid (2005), Hauntings (2006) and The Spirit-Cabinet (2006).

Katherine has worked as a writer in education for Tate Britain, the National Gallery and the City of London Festival, and has managed a range of long-term large-scale multidisciplinary projects for Arts Council East.

Lisa Nash originally trained in dance at the London Studio Centre. Many years later, she studied for her BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Central St. Martins College London and went on to study for her MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College.

She is interested in movement and performance and frequently incorporates this into her own work as a video artist. She is inspired by the notion of the overlooked or overheard moment and the discarded thought or idea. Many of her own works are also text-based, and more recently, she has introduced drawing into her practice too. She has exhibited her work in the UK and internationally including China, South East Asia, Sweden and USA.

For the past two years Lisa has been involved in delivering education based projects in and around London and more recently has been working for Creative Partnerships. She is excited to come on board as a Creative Associate for Curious Planet and looks forward to driving forward the moving image projects in the near future.

Lysanne Eddy is an Operations and Systems expert who has comprehensive experience of working with statutory arts bodies and Local Authorities.Â

She has recently taken on a partnership building role with Southend Borough Council to support the Government drive to build effective information sharing protocols across agencies.

While working for the Arts Council she was responsible for drawing up a large number of arts operational policies including:

She has enormous practice in the field of strategic planning and fiscal management.

Marian Carroll is a visual arts practitioner and arts manager who combines her profound knowledge of science with a powerful ability to forge partnerships across sectors and disciplines. She recently left the science art agency Arts Catalyst and now acts as a freelance arts education manager.

Her projects include The Universe Gallery which was a two year project with Mulberry School for Girls, Aldgate East, to transform the school corridors into an interactive art- science space exploring fundamental scientific theories and principles of the origin of the universe. The project was runner up in the Rolls Royce science prize in July 2007 and subsequently received a bonus £20,000 from Rolls Royce for further development. The project also received a CARA2 award.

She also managed Space Day (2007) which was a one day event, where 600 pupils were taken off curriculum to explore the history, politics and science of space exploration through hands-on art and design workshops, experiments in sound, video and web interaction, visual lectures and debate.

She is instrumental in helping education providers to engage in out of classroom learning and managed the East of Eden project for Arts Catalyst in 2006. This was a two year project to plan, design, build and fully utilise two geodesic ecology domes in the grounds of a Kent school, funded by Creative Partnerships Kent.

Peter Cook is a music practitioner and arts project leader who creates new work, delivers community celebration activity and collaborates with artists from a wide variety of different disciplines.

He runs the Kent based celebratory music company BIG BASH MUSIC, directing performances as part of the ‘Tour de Fun’ Canterbury initiative and organising the St Nicholas procession in Canterbury. He is an active member of the Board of Sounds New contemporary classical music festival and delivers large-scale composition and music based education activity.

He works on stills photography and has been influenced by how sounds and images work together and is particularly inspired by contemporary dance. He has recently composed and directed two films for local dance companies Dance Warehouse and New Moves.

Peter has worked as a curator for Creative Partnerships programmes for a number of years, helping to develop and implement the Evaluations framework in Thames Gateway and as part of the team who devised the arts research programme TRACK in Kent. He has recently completed a Certificate in Emotional Literacy and is now using this new knowledge in his practice.

Tansy Davies rose to prominence on the British scene with a sequence of ensemble works for the Composers Ensemble (Patterning), the London Sinfonietta (Torsion) and The Brunel Ensemble (The Void in this Colour), all of which bear the hallmarks of her apprenticeship under Simon Bainbridge and Simon Holt.

In her recent work, Davies has found an accommodation between the worlds of the avant-garde and experimental rock, between � in the words of one critic - Xenakis and Prince. Filled with sounds of cracking, slapping, whipping and scraping, it is music that is utterly contemporary, inhabiting the same urban landscape as industrial techno and electronica.

Her works include Contraband for the Britten Sinfonia, Streamlines for the CBSO Youth Orchestra, Spiral House for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, kingpin for the City of London Sinfonia and Falling Angel for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Thomas Adès.

Eschewing the facile, identikit diatonic grooviness of much post minimal music, Tansy Davies has found a way to be funky in a thoroughly grown-up way.

www.tansydavies.com

Tracey Falcon is a visual artist who has worked both in the UK and abroad. She has worked with refugees in Hong Kong and UK and run a cross-borders collaboration with teenagers in Germany and the UK. She has worked with Medicin Sans Frontiers, Hong Kong Youth Arts Festival and The British Council, amongst others.

Tracey uses a variety of media in her works, including video, projection, text, performance and intervention and, for the past few years, she has primarily made work using newspaper, end on, a little like looking at pages in a closed book. This use of newspaper started as an �in your face� reaction to certain political situations. However, over time certain properties of newspaper as a material have become of more importance to her. Her current series concentrates more on form. Here the paper conjures wood, concrete, paper, rock strata, land. It is used under compression and, like land, this forms it�s own rhythm and flow, suggestive of movement although static in its present form. Recycling paper, recycling news and opinion. History echoing around the walls. The writing in the wall. Newspaper has everything, the rhythm of life. Her newspaper works are exhibited widely.

She was awarded a bursary in 2004 by English Nature, to make work for Canterbury Environmental Education Centre, a project which followed the degradation of tree trunks made out of newspaper over a three year period. These �trunks� have appeared in several other locations over the years and are surprising long lasting even though placed outside. They return to a wood-like state as they are slowly reintegrated into the natural surroundings.

Biog coming soon meanwhile please see Wendy’s web page –
www.wendydaws.co.uk