Vivienne LightVivienne Light was born in West Dorset and studied at Dartington College of Arts, Devon, in the late 1960s. She taught music and art for many years and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1995. During the 1990s she was a Reseach Officer on a social science project based at Southampton University and Winchester School of Art. She co-authored several papers concerning student use of computers and video-conferencing. Concurrently she produced a body of art work titled Virtual Reality which used transparent acetate sheets, handmade papers, dismantled computer disks and photograph negatives. She first began exhibiting her work in the 1980s, having her first solo exhibition at the Nuffield Theatre, University of Southampton (1989). One series of work, Grandmother’s Lore, was strongly textile based and used stitchery, fabrics and items from her grandmother’s sewing boxes. In 2000, she began work on the Chesil series which is still ongoing. This work incorporates a variety of media, including collected beach objects and papers made from the fibres of plants growing in her garden. In 1994, she was a co-founder of the UK based organization Paperweight. Over the years she has led a number of community arts projects, taken part in BBC radio broadcasts about papermaking, run numerous workshops and curated around twenty national exhibitions. She feels that her additional work as an arts writer and reviewer compliments her work as a maker. She is a commissioned author of five nationally reviewed books (Modern Painters, Ceramic Review, Time Out) and has written short essays for several gallery publications. Her work is held in a number of collections including Salisbury Health Trust; Vosper Thorneycroft, International Type Corporation, New York. Her work has also been on loan to a number of organisations including University of Winchester and Paintings in Hospital. She is one of the artists featured in 50 Wessex Artists,a publication by Evolver Magazine. The work to be seen in the exhibition at mkgalleries is part of a new Visual Music series, of white paper ‘interrupted’, not by black and white marks of notation, but by substitute fragments of textual materials. These materials can be papers, lead, slate, rubber, metals, plastics, fabric, paint or other found objects. Some compositions are sparse, whereas others are detailed and intricate. EXHIBITIONS During the 1990s, Light exhibited in group shows throughout the UK as well as a paper show at Mino Paper Museum, Japan. In this decade she also had three solo exhibitions: Bromham Mill Gallery, Bedfordshire; Natural History Museum, Tring, The Theatre Royal, Winchester. Listed below are exhibitions in the last eleven years. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 1998-2009 Galleries appear in alphabetical order with number of exhibitions, if more than one, shown in brackets. Artsreach Pulp Fiction regional touring exhibition She is presently on the exhibition committee at Dorset County Museum, Dorchester. Artist Statement: |
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