Rose Butler uses film
and digital media to psychologically disrupt our sense of time and place. She
is currently working on a video piece based in Berlin exploring particular
sites and visitor's encounters with these sites and the mediation of their
experience through tour-led introductions to history and memorial.
Interested in tactical measures by which society and territory are
organised and controlled, Katie Davies makes films and
installations which deal with both the private and collective human experience,
global and intimate concerns in modes that are both analytical and emotional.
Observations within the work often present a conflict of interest, reflecting
what it might mean to occupy more than one position.
Rose Butler was
recently short listed for the Jerwood Prize for Moving Image (for work made in
collaboration with Kypros Kyprianou). Selected exhibitions include Contemporary
Art Manchester. She has exhibited at Evolution Festival, Leeds; Site Gallery,
Sheffield; The Cornerhouse, Manchester,
Millennium Galleries,
Sheffield; Consortium Galler, Amsterdam; Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow;
Institute of Contemporary Art, London. Rose is a Senior
Lecturer of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University
Katie Davies has exhibited her work in the UK and abroad
including Border Visions. Connecticut, USA; Outpost Gallery, Norwich, ArtSway
2010, Istanbul Biennial 2009, Badhaus, St Gallen, Switzerland, Mains d'Oeuvres
Contemporary Art Space, Paris, Centre for Contemporary Art, Palestine and
Glasgow International. She was recently artist in residence at Yorkshire
Artspace Society and is Associate Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University.
The finnisage and talk took place on 20th May.
