Archive 2019-20
Felicity Allen
- Venue: The Boiler House
- Start: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 17:15:00 BST
- End: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 18:30:00 BST
Artist and writer Dr. Felicity Allen works across a range of media and formats, often collaboratively and over time. In 2016, she conceived of the term disoeuvre—as opposed to oeuvre—to describe such ‘shifts of direction, language or discipline [of] an artist sustaining a practice despite and in response to contingency’. Conversation is central to Allen’s practice and her dialogic portraits foreground the ‘labour and experience of the sitter’ as well as the painter. Working in watercolour, she interrogates concepts such as artistic mastery and amateurism. Her most recent book The Disoeuvre: An argument in 4 voices (MA Biblioteque Press, 2019) features the voices of four protagonists brought together in a poetic and fragmentary discussion on the idea of an unrecognised artwork. Allen’s research and writing about art education has been published widely, including in her edited volume Education, part of the Documents of Contemporary Art series, (Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2011) and Your Sketchbook Your Self (TATE Publishing, 2011).
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