Gaea Todd // Profile
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Time and trangression are key elements of my work.Looking at the control, direction and escape of time. Domestic liquids serve as metaphors carried through time and gravity representing the corporeal.
Using glass, wax, honey, molasses, oil paint and other materials I create works that speak of fragility and corruption, belonging and loss. As each drip becomes solitary separating from the body into a new channel.
The duration of the pieces constantly maintains tension and release, imbuing the observer with desire through promise.
Within this mediatation exists a deeper meaning, perhaps a magic and definitely an intrinsic beauty that in turn creates a space for contemplation.
This work wrestles with conceptual values, relating to the body, the human, time, violence, temporality and transmission. The art that interests and excites me moves both the heart and engages the mind. It is a means to enable us to make sense of our place in this world.
Material investigation is also imperative to my practice. My conceptual threads are interwoven with materials and their loaded vocabulary.
Artist's CV
gaea.todd@alumni.rca.ac.ukSelected Exhibitions
2007
March 'Dispelling' Solo Show, Tricycle Gallery, Kilburn High Road, London, selected as part of the Tricycle Open.
2006
Sept Bombay Sapphire Prize 2006, Finalists Touring Show, Brick lane.
July No Man is an Island, -Selected Group Show, The Empire, London.
May Generation, Royal College of Art Summer Show, London.
April Discovery, Selected Group Show, Tallinn, Estonia.
March Installed Sculpture, Collaborative Show, The Hockney Gallery, R.C.A.
2005
November WIP Photography RCA.
November The Objectification of Ideas, The Crypt, Euston.
March Up and Running, Art London, RCA.
February Applied Evolution, Disused Office Space, London.
2004
Jan Setting out, CPA Gallery, London.
2003
July Undu, Truman brewery, Brick lane London.
May 3D03 Brighton University Graduation Show.
2002
May - Basement Seconds, Group Show, Brighton Media Centre.
2000
July - Global Warning, selected group show, London Guildhall University.
Awards
2007
August / September Residency at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop.
January Jutta Cuny Franz Award Honorary diploma.
January Arts Foundation Fellowship Nominated & Short-listed.
2006
Sept Bombay Sapphire Prize Short-listed