5 X 5: 5 Sussex artists talk about their work for 5 minutes each

This popular event provides an opportunity for our five artist-presenters to brush up on their presentation skills, as well as a chance for Sussex artists to get to know each other better and explore the breadth and diversity of artistic practice in the region. The five artists will each talk for five minutes and show 15 images of, or relating to their work in these short and snappy Pecha Kucha style presentations.

The talks will be followed by time for discussion, chat and a glass of wine.

Our five presenting artists:

Jilliene Sellner is a researcher, DJ and visual and sound artist. She started her sound journey by recording sounds out of her bedroom window with a cheap microphone bought from Radio Shack, pretending to present some off the wall radio program specialising in the dawn chorus and airplane engine sounds. She was 8 years old. Much of her critical research practice involves reflecting on her own echoic memories in the act of field recording or composition as a brief communication of an experience embedded in the body but that is relatable as universal memory or experience; organic to digital, through loss or distillation as metaphor to contemporary social, political and environmental relationships and anxieties. Jilliene is currently a PhD researcher at the University of Sussex working on a practice-based project that builds bridges with Middle Eastern female composers in the field of experimental musics and sound art.
http://www.jillienesellner.com/

Motivated by her insatiable curiosity and interest in the natural world printmaker Beatrice von Preussen has spent a lot of time bothering scientists and lurking around the Natural History Museum. The result has been adventures in nature, from sailing in Svalbard to cutting moss cubes from the steaming slopes of Deception Island in Antarctica. As she travels Beatrice develops her techniques of printmaking in the field, and returns to share tales of polar bears and seal songs; she runs art workshops inspiring children and adults to look at nature with fresh eyes, to go out together and explore the world around them.
http://www.beatricevonpreussen.co.uk/about
Deception Island blog: https://beatricevonpreussen.blog/

Lucy Brennan Shiel is an Irish artist currently living in Hastings. She studied for her BA Hons in Fine Art at Wolverhampton University where she received funding to visit Moscow. She was awarded a bursary from the London Institute for her MA studies at Camberwell College of Art and completed her MA in 1995, with a Distinction in Printmaking. Lucy has an international practice exploring the space between Ireland where she grew up and England where she now lives. Since 2001 her work has emerged through paintings and prints from the Irish landscape. Since 2017 her main research interest has been James Joyce’s Ulysses and the deep feminine.
http://www.brennanshiel.co.uk/

Ismini Saminadou trained in London at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art. Her practice crosses the boundaries of art, craft and design with work developed for exhibitions, industry collaborations and site specific commissions. She works with weaving, drawing and photography. Her working methods utilise both digital technologies and traditional techniques and are led by an experimental approach to materials and processes. Ismini’s work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Recent work includes an invited residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation; weaving designs developed for Chris Farr Cloth and a large scale site specific textile installation in collaboration in London. http://www.isminisamanidou.com/

Elaine Foster Gandey says her art aesthetic, the body, performance, collaboration, film and mark making are all at the core of her research enquiry. Working across a range of media and processes she explores how the individual interior life is made externally manifest through collaboration with others. A background in fashion, combined with an interest in mask and costume have provided a rich visual resource that constantly informs her practice. A long standing interest in equality, identity and gender provide much of her work’s theoretical underpinning. http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elainefostergandey/

Image: Jilliene Sellner

6-8pm. Artists - all welcome
FREE to existing Blue Monkey Network members; £5 all others/Pay As You Go

Refreshments will be available (contributions welcome) but please bring your own cup/glass. Please feel free to bring a bottle.

For more information visit https://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/event/bluemonkey-5x5-april19/