'An Act of Participation' Really really happy to be invited to take part in this exciting exhibition by WALKER & BROMWICH showing at DMU Gallery. showing collectively are 55 artists within this beautiful structure- all work can be loaned out for free!

'FAKE REAL DEAD' (collage, photography, wet changing to cracked dry clay, metal clay tool). 

Questions online news, as well as the sadness of the stories highlighted. This work considers the story of the baby dolphin that got pulled out the water in Argentina by a crowd in 2016, its representative to venerability, genuineness and authenticity and how we protect ourselves in the face of fakery. 
The two hands in the image represent power and control and looks at body language. It has been said, that should you pet a dolphin from above you devalue and quash and bring confidence stroking from below their jaw. The clay will dry on the journey to each home and crumble and change, each person and place will have an affect on the work.  

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Leila Houston (London, 1977) is a visual artist whose work has often explored the social, political and historical aspects of a place and the impact we have on our environments.Working predominantly with video, sound and structure, much of her artwork has cultivated immersive atmospheres for the spectator, often inviting them to take part or contribute to the work.
Houston uses site-responsive installations to investigate the connections between the external atmosphere and the internal sensation within places, providing reflections on the language of architecture and the associations we draw through memory and the senses. ​

Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich (website here)
Our work explores the space between what exists and what is possible. Within this liminal space we create objects and situations that lead our audience on transformative experiences inviting them to consider an other way of being. We ask participants in our work to examine their relationship to the environment they inhabit and reflect on a larger global situation. We are interested in arts potential to act as a catalyst for social and political transformation. At the heart of our work is the pursuit of an ideal and the question - is it possible for Art, and more particularly our practice to provide practical, aesthetic and poetic solutions to social political and environmental problems?
Our work crosses between the gallery space and the public realm; we use installations, social sculptures, and public performances as tools to open up a space where the possible and the actual come together. 

 Here we can collectively begin to question the limits of society and imagine a better world. We believe that through experiencing something even for a moment can start a powerful process of changeWe work in response to specific sites and communities drawing on an environment and its people to form the work. We employ a strong aesthetic language that keys into the popular imaginary as useful and effective communication tools from which a complex discourse unfolds, crossing boundaries both 

​geographical, social and metaphorical. Through the playful nature of the work and engagement with of the process participants become involved in events and situations that open up discussion around subjects like the pursuit of happiness, open boarders, and the nature of belief. Our aim has been and is to exploit the power of this aesthetic language to its full potential as a catalyst for change in both localised communities and on a wider global scale
Art Lending Library: with Market Gallery at GI - Glasgow International May 2012
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