Practice the Process

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Rebecca Edery

Image description. A collage of three photographs of the desk at which the article was written. Photograph credit: Rebecca Edery.

Image description. A collage of three photographs of the desk at which the article was written. Photograph credit: Rebecca Edery.

 

An exploration of a young aspiring artist questioning their intentions for wanting to build a socially engaged practice. This questioning is interrupted with art history, theory and opinion. The work is unpublished and was written for an undergraduate submission in Fine Art and Writing at UWE Bristol.

I wanted to share this writing in the hopes that other artists who feel drawn to socially engaged work can relate to my thought process. In a cohort of 270 students on my course, I am yet to find another who is interested in similar work to my own. My work often is dissmissed for having no comercial value. I am yet to find a way of documenting my practice that communicates the process as well as art writing does.

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Rebecca Edery

Rebecca Edery is a Bristol based, socially engaged artist, working to form communities. She works with situations and conversations, acknowledging dialogue as a creative act. The work ranges from scripted encounters to extremely open works, always leaving room for elements of the unknown to encounter and become a part of the work. The continuing creative process is foregrounded over finality in the form of outcomes and art objects.

Edery’s practice is concerned with exploring ways to dissolve the social boundaries which inhibit both individual agency and connections between people. Her aspiration for next year is to design a collaborative project where fluidity is the organisational principle. By enacting these qualities within the artistic process, participants might continue this ‘mode of being’, beyond the work. She aspires to show how the artistic process is analogous to the process of living.

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