Archive 2011-12
Layla Curtis
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture theatre
- Start: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:00:00 GMT
- End: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT
Layla Curtis (b.1975) is an artist based in London. Her work encompasses a variety of media; she collages maps to create fictional hybrid cartographical works, creates drawings compiled of text taken from atlases, and employs technologies such as thermal imaging cameras, Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and video to create drawings and trace journeys. She has exhibited widely, with solo exhibitions at Milton Keynes Gallery (2000), New Art Gallery Walsall (2006) and Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast (2008) and group exhibitions at Tate Modern, London; Pavilhão Lucas Nogueira Garcez-Oca, São Paulo, Brazil and Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Canada. Her work is in the Tate Collection and she has undertaken residencies at AIAV, Japan (1999), Ramsgate Maritime Museum/Turner Contemporary, Margate (2004) and Art on the Underground, London (2008). In 2010 she visited the Borneo rainforest to develop new work while walking and living with the indigenous semi-nomadic Penan. Recent projects include a new commission with Film & Video Umbrella.
Image: Walking with the Penan, (work in progress) Production still