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August 2010
The month that was! I was expecting to install with the Departure Gallery in Birmingham this month but problems with leases has meant this has been postphoned at best. The image shows the visualisation of the proposal aimed at dominating the viewer and evoke self referential responses related to paper work and content from endless bureaucracy to cherished content. Answer 7 times? Why? The fibres become to short after that Question What happens to it after 7 times,and how do the recycle facilities tell? Answer Not sure I’ll be seeking an answer to that one out in the autumn!
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25th June 2010 Bargate Monument Gallery, Southampton Thanks to everyone who has taken a tracker out in Upper Bar shopping pecinct. All the individual drawings can be seen on the Your Drawings page at http:// www.extra-mural.org The image we digitally burried is now emerging, the image here is a screen shot from the website. ( its rotated and keystoned to counter act the ackwardness of the projector angling to get the image right and to project live ) The drawing is inspired by the story and legends of Sir Bevis of Hampton, to appear ghost like on the walls of the Bargate Monument Gallery.
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22nd May - 4th July 2010 Where do you Draw the Line? extra-mural....a participatory digital arts project is the latest collaboration by artists Mike Blackman and Jeannie Driver.
Visit the exhibtion blog for more info The exhibtion featured Artists: Alys Scott-Hawkins, Martin Symons, Trish Bould (in collaboration with Kathy Oldridge and Charlotte Knox-Williams) Jeannie Driver & Mike Blackman, Kate Grenyer, Birgitte Haahr Lund, Katie Howe, Jo Hummel-Newell, Greig Burgoyne and Kristy Campbell.
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22nd and 23rd May 2010 Art Space Open Studios Come and visit me in Studio 12 Open Studio Weekend 27 Brougham Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, |
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Saturday 3rd April 2010
Rising Tides of Bureaucracy
Aspex Gallery 11am- 3pm Installed at the Arc Office in Aspex Gallery. For more images view www.jeanniedriver.com/gallery/gallery.php?file=../content/galleries/arc office.xml |
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Saturday 3rd April 2010 ONE DAY ONLY Aspex Gallery 11am- 3pm I will be creating an installation at the Arc Office in Aspex. |
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March 27 2010 Light Night Event
Open studios and Art Date make exhibition
I will be in the Gasp space. Visits to my studio by request. |
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January - March 2010 As part of my commitment to engagement and particiaption The project has developed over last year and is the thrid project that I've developed and raised funding for, through the Find Your Talent programme. ART DATE has been designed to work with education and third sector organsiations working with young people. Our second ART DATE was held at the end of January. The format of was for young people, and their support workers to visit 5 professional artsist in their studios. To record their visit photographically and engage with the artists. The second part of the date, provided young people with the opportunity to show their work in the exhibtion space and to seek feedback, tips and ideas for research on their own work and gcse or award portfolios. An ART MAKE DATE has been arranged for one of the artists visit the young people for a skills workshop. The work, and documentation from the visit will be exhibtited in GASP, ( Gallery Art Space Portsmouth ) as part of the area wide Light Night exhibtion programme on the 27th March 2010. An earlier ART DATE has led to 1:1 mentoring sessions between young people and artists, in partnership with a third sector organsiaiton. |
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January 2010 A January start.. visit the image blog page for works in progress. The Kube Gallery in Poole, is an important purpose built gallery in the region...we need to save venues for artists SAVE THE KUBE gallery- The Fight Isn't Over Yet! Go here : http://www.wiredcanvas.com/kube.pdf
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November 2009 Time is spent working on commissions, including Heaps of shredded paper reside in the studio, |
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September 2009 30th September – 24th October Private View: 30th September, 5pm - 8pm Jeannie Driver & Mike Blackman show whim |
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27th - 31st July 2009 Data Golem There is an open session on Thursday evening (4pm – 7pm, Space Gallery, Eldon Building, University of Portsmouth, Winston Churchill Avenue, PO1 2UP. All welcome) to see the work in progress of 14 participants who are working together over 5 days (27 – 31 July) to drive and develop a piece of responsive and adaptive software for artists. The participants are: Jacqui Banks, Fab The Detonators (Tiago Gambogi), Jeannie Driver, Simone Gumtau, Alain Renaud, Olu Taiwo, Jo Tyler, Adam Vanner, Wanda Zyborska with facilitation, participation and documentation from Tessa Eliott and Jonathan Jones Morris (SurgeryDar), Helen Sloan (SCAN) and Steve Lewis (OrangeAlert) SCAN |
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12th July 2009 website updates This new website is gradually being updated. |
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July 2009 Occupational Territory Organised with SCAN KUBE 9th July, 7pm. All welcome. Free An informal discussion and presentation of work by artists that record and inspire negotiation of spaces and buildings. Jeannie Driver & Mike Blackman will present WHIM, a belt that tracks routes and habits of people wihtin buildings: Steve Symons will present Aura, another wearable system that enables audiences to augument their experience of a walk through sound while creating a visual map of their walk: and John Bell's bandwidth that tracks peoples responses to moving image billboards. These presentaions will be followed by an open discussion and networking session.
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June 2009 Update Currently working on the collaborative project with Mike Blackman for the Distributed South residency, run by SCAN. A title for the piece has now evolved: WHIM, not only an acronym- wireless, human interactive mapping, but relates to what the protoype tool is aiming to explore,more specifically, how people move around a space. WHIM is worn by the participator creating data for mapping and reinterpretation. A further interactive element is being added that could be employed as a device for examining gallery audiences experiences and choice through positioning in relation to a space and exhibits, and again re-presenting that data in the space as residue.
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9th- 10th May 2009 12-5 pm & 12-3 pm Artspace Open Studios event 27 Brougham Road Visit Jeannie at Studio 12
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17th March 2009 Work Play Images from the exhibition. Please contact if you would like to meet the artist for an informal discussion. |
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13th March - 7th April 2009 Work Play 13th March- 7th April Preview: Friday 13th March 2009, 5.00 - 7.00pm For a press release please email jeannie@jeanniedriver.com Further information will be added to the Exhibitions section of the website |
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13th February - 27th February 2009 The eclectic exhibition of works from artists who have undertaken Jeannie Driver is showing 'City as a Canvas', an exhibition stand The exhibit shows the computer animated drawing overlaid onto google earth, the film taken on a camera helmet, by cyclists from Portsmouth Cycle Forum and a map of Portsmouth with drawing |
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26th January 2009 BIG DRAW SUCESS The Big Draw event at John Pounds Centre, featuring CITY AS A CANVAS has been 'Highly Commended' by the Big Draw, Campaign for Drawing. |
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| AUTUMN 2008 City as a Canvas 11th October 2008 The City as a Canvas was commissioned for a BIG DRAW event in Portsmouth. The project linked issues of sustainable travel, drawing, venue accessibility with public participation and community engagement. The City as a Canvas is a digital arts project by Jeannie Driver and Mike Blackman in collaboration with cyclists. Using GPS trackers cycle teams followed pre-planned routes to create digital drawings across the City of Portsmouth. Data was collected and downloaded at the event creating animated drawings utilising Google earth. Drawings created: City Cycle Turning Portsmouth on its Head A Ferry Good Ride Further information: www.jeanniedriver.com/cityasacanvas |
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| SUMMER 2008 Multi Channel Artsway 3rd July 2008 Short film Office Investigations AQUIRE 14th May - 13th July 2008 control spike sculpture Group exhibition Aspex Gallery & Gasp Space arc evaluation commission April- June 2008 ARC (Artist resource Centre) coordinator Jonathan Parsons commissioned Jeannie to research and produce a full report of arc services and artist experiences across the region, utilising graphic and visual communication. |
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| SPRING 2008 For current news please visit www.jeanniedriver.blogspot.com The SPIKE IT project can be found at www.spikeit.org.uk Register your work mood today on the interactive ATMOSPHERE board www.spikeit.org.uk/beta/atmosphere.html |
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WORKS ON PAPER 1/02/08 - 29/03/08 Group exhibtion by emerging contemporary artists Gallery FIFTY THREE 53 Beauchamp Place Knightsbridge London SW3 1NY Group exhibtion showing Jeannie Drivers works Spike 1-1000 and WORK WORK series of c prints on aluminium. |
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| SEPTEMBER 2007 Website launch and Exhibition. 10th October 2007. Over the past few months I have been working on the spike-it website. The website will be launched with an accompanying exhibition in the Intro Space at the prestigious south coast ASPEX Gallery. The launch will include a SPIKE IT Free Prize draw for business and organisations attending the launch. Attendees will be eligible to apply for a SPIKE in residence in their own location. Photographs from the SPIKE residence will be added to the exhibition. This is a great opportunity for businesses and offices to become involved. SPIKE and Office INVESTIGATIONS have identified business benefits for both staff and organisations procedures. SPIKE IT will also be on exhibition at the Millas Gallery - project room from 3rd November 2007. It is intended that SPIKE 5 will reside in the University offices with a live feed to the project room. This intends to focus the viewer on the process of SPIKE, as the work. Locations for SPIKE's 6-9 are still being sort, prior to a 9 SPIKE installation with video. |
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| JULY 2007 This month has been a month of getting creative with the mass of material generated from SPIKE and experimentation with film for future exhibitions. Thewww.Spikeit.org.uksite is still under development. I'm currently working with artist and software engineer Mike Blackman in developing an online ATMOSPHERE board to be located in the SPIKEIT website. |
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| JUNE 2007 Resurgence Exhibition Langstone Gate Building. 14th June - 29th June Office installation Seaward Properties commissioned art exhibition Resurgence to launch the reopening of their Langstone Gate Offices. The group exhibition was curated by purple dot. For this exhibition I created installation Office within one of the refurbished offices, relating to the site and the (part) business audience. View OFFICE on the Projects and Exhibitions section for further information and images. STEP DATA is still continuing with more people recruited at ARTSPACE open studios event on 30th June and 1st July. |
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| MAY 2007 SPIKE 3 resides in the Winchester Gallery Office This small office accommodated SPIKE 3 which became a vessel for many ART preview and exhibition cards that are received in the office. SPIKE 3 was monitored by CCTV creating footage for the final multi SPIKE installation, that intends to juxtapose 9 SPIKES from a variety of offices. |
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| APRIL 2007 A new dedicated website www.spikeit.org.uk will be on line later this month to document SPIKE in offices and on location together with journal notes and writings from participants and creative practitioners involved in the work. |
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| MARCH 2007 After completely being floored with flue for two weeks I recovered whilst watching the video tapes taken during the Office Investigation number 1. Hen Weekend 30/3/07- 1/4/07 a weekend in Bexhill for female artists, curators and writers. Organised by Artist and Curator Ellie Harrison to facilitate discussion and collaboration. As part of the Hen weekend I undertook a commission which is available on the hen website www.henweekend.org. A wider explanation of the work and my reaction to the weekend is posted here on the works page. John Pounds Centre: The location of two of my public art commissions and a process led residency has been short listed for a "Creating the Future - ASC Award for Sustainable Communities" http://www.ascskills.org.uk/pages/awards |
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| FEBRUARY 2007 As part of the SPIKE project I undertook A 3 day residency in a local Authority office. More information about the work can be found on the practice page |
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| DECEMBER 2006 Arts Council Award- Investment in Individuals. leap for the sky, spin round, double hand punch in the air - I GOT IT! With a gesture much much more demonstrative than Tim Henman winning match point I’d like to announce that I’ve been successful in gaining an Arts Council ‘Grants for the Arts’ Award for Individuals. This significant funding enables me to develop my creative practice and work with new audiences. Over the next six months I will be focusing on investigations in offices. This will include locating the six foot SPIKE(s) in office environments to examine workers relationship with paper: work flow, production, consumption and waste. Actions of SPIKE ing will be videoed to record the linear build up of paper on SPIKE. These investigations and collective of SPIKEs will be developed into an installation work for gallery exhibition. The ATMOSPHERE board, developed during a recent residency, will be used as a research tool to document the mood of the office. This research will aid further development of ATMSOPHERE. The STEPDATA project will continue. Thank you to all who have participated to date. For those of you who haven’t, new STEPDATA packs will be available in January. What a great way to start a new year! If you'd like further information please send an email to jeannie@jeanniedriver.com with a subject heading WEB CONTACT. |
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| SEPTEMBER 2006 After a busy summer in Cornwall and Paris I’m now extending the work started in the John Pounds residency with an artist initiated project STEP DATA. STEP DATA is seeking individuals to form an alphabet of job titles and the number of steps taken during their working day, eg A is for Artist, B is for Bookmaker.... Each participant will receive a pedometer and a data sheet to complete. You will also be interviewed and photographed to create a graphic. Participant’s identity can remain anonymous in the final artwork. “I’m intrigued that we are recommended to take a minimum of 10,000 steps a day. If you sleep for 8 hours that is 625 steps to achieve every waking hour. To explore this I started noting how many steps I and others were taking at work with interesting results.... So STEP DATA aims to investigate the relationship between jobs and steps. The work will represent the data in a series of artworks to be exhibited in work environments.” Sign up NOW to participate! Please contact jeannie@jeanniedriver.com SPIKE IT I am also pursuing a new work SPIKE IT. This project is in its formative stages and is seeking organisations and businesses as partners in the project. SPIKE IT explores people’s relationship with paper at work. Whether you view it as a product of your achievement, a record of work, an annoyance, or the bane of your life! The paperless office was predicted but has it arrived? SPIKE IT is seeking people and organisations to collect paper for paper cull events when the spike will visit your office or place of work. You will have the opportunity of spiking your paper. This event will be filmed and used in the final gallery installation together with the spike and a plaque identifying the place of work or individual. If you are interested in this project and have a location for the spike to visit, please contact jeannie@jeanniedriver.com for more information. Suitable locations will be given collection boxes and a date will be arranged for the spike visit. Please feel free to print the PDFs to advertise the projects. Download STEP DATA PDF Download SPIKE PDF |
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JULY 2006
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| MARCH 2006 John Pounds Residency Update The residency at John Pounds Centre has been extended and I’m continuing to develop the work and expand the participation. I have become really interested in the data from people’s step counters in relation to their occupation, exercise classes and location to and from JPC. I will be promoting an open studio exhibition early summer to share evidence of the engagement and the ideas explored. Workshops Over the last few months I have also been working for PCC Health Improvement Team. These workshops run through the schools and the JPC have focused on arts and exercise. My workshops have included walks with pedometers together with floor drawing exercises focusing on traces of activity. Paper Spike I’m continuing to expand and evolve the paper spike project. I now have collection boxes in a number of offices and I’ve booked a film crew for May. The work place has a significant impact on wellbeing and I’m developing a number of interactive artworks to be placed in offices as part of this work and evolving from the residency. Eastleigh The ‘walk in my footsteps’ project is now in its fabrication stage and should be opening May/June. Please send an email if you wish to be added to my contacts list regarding the opening at John Pounds or Eastleigh, noting the project in the subject heading. Please note this is not an automated service. |
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| JANUARY A busy month… Factory Road- Eastleigh Borough Council. 'Walk in footsteps'- is the title of the artworks which comprise of three panels attached to lighting columns, and a series of paving slabs, relating to the site. Symbols are used to represent the variety of activity that has taken place in Factory Road over the last 100 years. References include, the diary, house building, the decorators shop, the photographers, the school and the clearing hospital in what is now Norwood school. The title 'walk in my footprints', etched into footprints, remind us that we walk along the road as many have walked before, and that our walk, although it may be regular, is indeed a small amount in the life of the road but adds to that history. Perfect Citizen The arts Plus award- This international collaboration is a new and enjoyable and challenging experience for me. The project is progressing well, with interesting opportunities for the project to developed past the first Arts Plus Stage. The deadline is looming and work continuing so a furtgher update next month. Portsea arts and Health residency The majority of my energies this month have been developing both the content for the report and making some art! I hope to soon announce a date for an open studio event at the end of March, to show my findings, proposals and artwork. Please contact me if you are interested in attending. |
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| NOVEMBER The residency at John Pounds Centre is now underway. I am currently exploring understandings of health and wellbeing with residents and staff at the centre. To encourage dialogue I have launched a project “from here to there and there to here”. Through giving people pedometers, this project encourages users to note how many steps they are doing around the centre, during activities and in the locality. The project is supported by questionnaires and data logging sheets. Information will be transferred to the ongoing mapping installed on the gallery wall. This is a visual report and includes peoples quotes, symbols of activities and identified needs by centre users in terms of possible locations for art. |
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JUNE Perfect Citizen will examine what it means to be a citizen in contemporary Southampton. A range of agencies – including Southampton City Council and City Eye - and an unusual creative team will look at the role of the developer, urban planner, and policy makers in defining good citizenship while also taking views of the ‘ordinary person’. |
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This month I have joined the artist studio organisation ARTSPACE. |
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| FEBRUARY Woodland pallette: An installation compirising of 48metres of digial print located in a pedestrain subway under the M3. This exciting project involed workshops with pupils from Scantabout Primary School. Full details can now be located on the Public Arts Projects page. |
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