I’m undertaking a new project, made possible through the Your Voice 2 residency at Art Space Portsmouth. The two weeks residency focuses on responding to oral history interviews created by young people from the Motiv8 Skills Hub, and mentoring them in new creative skills.For the...
Undertaking the project enabled me to make new work and produce a touring exhibition across Hampshire. This supported my transition towards working as a freelance artist. It helped me to increase social capital by building strong relationships and networks with arts organisations, artists and audiences.Although the...
[caption id="attachment_3505" align="aligncenter" width="500"]Maija Liepins with component parts of Tony Spencer's Octahedron sculpture On 2 August 2020, Tony Spencer gathered three of his collaborators to examine and respond to his work-in-progress Octahedron, part of a five part geometric sculpture series. On the tips of four pyramids...
[caption id="attachment_3519" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Photograph by Christine Dodd, coloured by Maija Liepins (pictured with the Tetrahedron)[/caption] _____ As each artist responds to Tony’s artworks, they will collectively journey through the elements which correspond with the five platonic solids. You can follow our process on this blog throughout...
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Christine Dodd writes: "Nurture...
Christine Dodd is a contributing artist in Nothing 'Is' Immediate, she writes...
Nothing Would Disturb Me a geometric sound sculpture based on the Icosahedron, was exhibited at Sandham Memorial Chapel in a group exhibition by CAS Artists titled Saturated Space.Tony Spencer says, "According to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, the Icosahedron represents the element Water. I therefore...
[caption id="attachment_3211" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Christine Dodd (left) and Maija Liepins (right), Photograph by Kate Street, at The Arches, Southampton 2020[/caption] Tonight, Christine Dodd and I are at Sandham Memorial Chapel responding with embodied sound and movement to Tony's Icosahedron. This will be part of a public...