livestream: Upon Reflection 2020 by Sarah Misselbrook
Thursday 3rd December
livestream - 7pm - free entry - artist talk
Register your interest by getting your free ticket, instructions to join will be emailed shortly afterwards. For your security and ours, you cannot attend this talk without registering in advance first.
Join conceptual artist Sarah Misselbrook via ZOOM to hear about and see 20 years of her work
A reflective process looking back over 20 years of the artist’s multidisciplinary practice. Her book presents observational sketches, photography of processes and performances to camera, gallery-based exhibitions, site-specific sculptural installations and the written word. From clinical spaces to burnt forest environment, the visual journey through the publication shows a migration from on to off-grid existence and a closeness to the cycle of life and death.
Misselbrook, born in Southampton, UK in 1977, received a BA Honours degree in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University which saw the beginning of her multi-media practice addressing issues surrounding the body as canvas and consumer in response to societal expectations placed upon it. Misselbrook completed a qualification focussing on disordered psychology as well as gaining her PGCE in 2004 from the University of Southampton. In 2007 the artist completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at the Cyprus College of Art, Paphos and then went on to complete a distinction level Masters in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art in 2011.
The artist has completed various public commissions including a large-scale wall-based work in rural Catalunya entitled ‘Protection’, inspired by the protection of the Catalan language by women. In 2014, Misselbrook created a large scale installation work in NLCS Jeju, South Korea taking inspiration from the volcanic island and traditional calligraphy and incorporating community performances, casting and body printing. In both 2016 and 2017, Misselbrook was successful in applying to create site-specific installations in public spaces as part of the Riu d’Art residency in Catalunya, Spain.
In early 2018, Misselbrook was selected as part of the Block Chain: The Power of Two online collaborative project organised by Chapel Arts Studios which saw her continued investigation into site-specific, ‘land based’ bodily performances and installations. More recently, Misselbrook was invited to create a site-specific sculptural installation and performance in the Maials forest, which was devastated by forest fire in June 2019. The work was created as part of a large scale project called ‘Cendrart’ – Cendra meaning Ash in Catalan.
Register via Eventbrite for instructions to join ZOOM event. This is a free entry event, but if you'd like to sling October Books a donation, please do.
You can order ‘Upon Reflection 2020’ from us at October Books here! It has extra online material accessible through a QR code in the back of the book linking to full video works of featured stills and the artist in interview.
