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Fran Cottell And Maisie Richards Cottell | A Piece of Land: Alternative communities and living


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Fran Cottell And Maisie Richards Cottell | A Piece of Land: Alternative communities and living
Saturday 27 May 2017
An afternoon of presentations considering alternative structures of collective living and models of domestic life.
Fran Cottell and her daughter Maisie Richards Cottell will discuss 'House Projects' (2001 - present); a series of architectural installations built in the artists' home, a former cemetery lodge in Greenwich. A screening of It Takes a Million Years to be a Woman (2010-14), a film documenting Sisters of Jam's ongoing interdisciplinary art project about Millett Farm; an art colony founded in 1978 by feminist author Kate Millett in Poughkeepsie, USA. Nina Wakeford presents an apprenticeship in queer I believe it was, a performance with 16mm film exploring the capacity of Greenham Common to transform the identities of those who lived there.
Fran Cottell is an artist producing installations, public interventions and performance since the 1970s; working collaboratively and individually, on social, feminist, environmental and domestic artworks, and curatorial projects. Fran is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Camberwell College of Arts.
Maisie Richards Cottell graduated from Trinity College Dublin (2014) in English literature, before that she studied politics at Queens University Belfast. While at Trinity she was greatly involved in the student drama society 'Players'; winning Best Set Design at the Irish Student Drama Awards 2013. Since graduating she has worked in set design for both theatre and TV in London, and was previously a member of the Soho Theatre Young Company's Comedy Lab.
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Presented as part of the exhibition '56 Artillery Lane' at Raven Row.
For this exhibition ‘home’ is imagined as a space for social, sexual and political agency, and the 'domestic’ as a stage on which kinship and self are formed and transformed through acts of love, cruelty and indifference.
A group of works from the recent past and present has been gathered for 56 Artillery Lane alongside a weekly live programme. Participants in 56 Artillery Lane include Chantal Akerman, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Soofiya Andry, Dr Meg-John Barker, Khairani Barokka, Pandora Blake, Phoebe Blatton, Jenna Bliss, Rizvana Bradley, Daniel Brathwaite-Shirley, Ben Burgis & Ksenia Pedan, Autumn Chacon, Channels, Adam Christensen, Fiona Clark, Lucy Clout, Fran Cottell, Phoebe Davies & Nandi Bhebhe, Jemma Desai, Fenixº, Alex Fleming, Keira Fox, Richard Fung, Harry Giles, Carry Gorney, Alice Hattrick, Candice Hopkins, Juliet Jacques, Nazmia Jamal (Sisters Uncut), Alice Jones, Jacob V Joyce, Bhanu Kapil, Morag Keil & Georgie Nettell, Sarah Kent, Las Nietas de Nonó, Gail Lewis, Rudy Loewe, Suzy Mackie (See Red Women's Workshop), Hamish MacPherson, Mira Mattar, Zinzi Minott, Merata Mita, Irenosen Okojie, Lucy Orta, Meera Osborne, Maria Pinińska-Bereś, Ingrid Pollard, Steve Reinke, Su Richardson, Christine Roche, RUSS, Stanley Spencer, Barbara T. Smith, Martine Syms, Anna Szaflarski, Nina Wakeford, Kate Walker, Darcy Wallace, Ed Webb-Ingall, Ria Wilson, Anicka Yi and Rehana Zaman.
The exhibition is curated by Amy Budd and Naomi Pearce, with input from Amy Ball, Gail Chester, Althea Greenan, Lucie Kinchin, Alexandra Kokoli, Imogen and Catriona Laing, Robert Leckie, Suzy Mackie, Sue Madden, Bernard G Mills, Ciara Moloney, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Su Richardson, Alex Sainsbury, Amy Tobin, Mercedes Vicente and Ed Webb-Ingall.
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