End of good year

It's been a great year with lots of interesting projects to keep my creative juices flowing.  The completion of the Picture This moving image work and the subsequent exhibitions 'Three' and 'Voices' lead me to seek new opportunities for showing the work in the new year.

     The installation showing a snippet of the film.

Voices Exhibition

Jane Taylor-Bouvard Conserver Bristol Museum preparing manniquin for costume installation at  for Voices exhibition 13th September to 16th November 2008. 

The installation consists of HLM Costume projection showing Habit Libertaire Model, Dakar Taylors and Dakar Building, on a looped dvd with the costume on manniquin in space.

Albatross

'Albatross' is a new work that is inspired by many of the recent artworks by Ghanaian Artist El Anatsui.  Many or his works utilizes found objects, including metal bottle tops to create huge a artworks that harbour new meanings referencing cultural traditions.  'Albatross' highlights the plight of the bird as its colonies continue to be depleted by the build up of non-biodegradable plastic waste materials.  My piece comments on environmental issues locally and globally through the use of recycled plastic bottles tops with which I am making a huge hanging that replicates El Anatsui's works in scale and hopefully splendor.  

'Society Woman Cloth' 

Here it is possible to see the detail and the richness of the work.

My work also makes use of other domestic waste items including net from supermarket fruits and different cartons cut into small pieces.  I admit I have a long way to go to emulate the works of El Anatsui but I have made a start.  I appreciate the help I am receiving in collecting bottles top which makes this a participatory project and move along at a regular pace in terms of when I can get to the studio and get on with it.  I aim to have something to show by the Spike Open studios in May 2009. 

New Moves

Finally the 'HLM Costume' is launched in Picture This moving image exhibition 'Three' with two other artists. The show puts together three very different artists making use of moving image in different ways that compliment there ways of working.  It's a great feeling and confirms just how perseverance prevails where a positive vision exists. Dakar Building (pictured) HLM Costume and Dakar Taylors on DVD loop, are my triple screne works.

Exhibition text: Gloria Ojulari Sule travelled to the Dak'Art Biennale in 2006 ; this trip was an important journey for Ojulari Sule as an artist trying to locate her own practice within national and global contemporary art networks.

 

In Dakar Ojulari Sule became fascinated with the traditional African costume as an art form itself. Intrigued and inspired by the special qualities and pride revealed by the wearer of Senegalese dress and interpreting this pride as personification of true cultural identity Ojulari Sule embarked on a mission to engage in the everyday activity of having a traditional costume made. Filmed in Dakar and Bristol HLM Costume documents an experience of a woman following her vision to immerse herself in the local culture and engage with the city as someone on a home coming.

Picture This, Mardyke Ferry Road, Bristol BS1 6UU 15 March - 19 April 2008