Art Now Cornwall 3 February – 13 May 2007. Tate Gallery St Ives
“Art Now Cornwall is the first exhibition at Tate St Ives to present a large sample of artists living and working in Cornwall. Selected during thirty-five studio visits made last autumn, it features recent and new work of twenty eight of the county’s most influential artists.”
In An Atlantic Wave 2006
Video
© the Artist
Andy Whall is a founder of Art Surgery, an organisation which initiates artists’ projects, often with collaborating organisations, to be presented in locations beyond the gallery walls. His current practice is performance-based with drawing and time-based media – mainly video – used as an accompaniment. Often the performance is action-based; for example, in a recent work, he was blindfolded and whilst kneeling, licked a granite pillar for four hours. The use of the blindfold was to enhance his sense of vulnerability whilst carrying out a ritualistic sequence of actions in a Cornish landscape setting which had previously been mined. His works are often about the mind and body’s physical propensity for endurance under extreme conditions, such as running continuously or climbing (or licking).
Susan Mcelroy Daniels , Director Tate Gallery St Ives.
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