Performance allows my body to have voice and is found in the stitches that lie underneath the layers that hold my work together

Movement comes as a starting point for a lot of my processes as an artist.

 

Wallpaper Dress

Rainna and Alice

Rainna & Alice were exploring the different ways to make marks on a piece of fabric. They were working with one pen and then two pens using a variety of mark...

PERFORMANCE PHOENIX ARTS

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Louella and Elaine

Louella and Elaine using paint to make marks onto fabric attached to the walls of the studio as part of my research project for The University of Brighton. A...

DRAWING TECHNIQUES

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Alice and Rainna

As part of my Research project for my MA at The University of Brighton participants Alice and Rainna were asked to select drawing tools, either pens or penci...
 

Come and Dance with Me

Liz Aggiss & Elaine Foster-Gandey

Excerpt from triptych video installation entitled 'Come and dance with me'. The artist Elaine Foster-Gandey invited five performers to dance with her including the performance artist Liz Aggiss. She filmed the process and then responded to the encounters via a set a enactments.

Carlos Ara and Elain Foster-Gandey

Excerpt from triptych video installation entitled 'Come and dance with me'. The artist Elaine Foster-Gandey invited five performers to dance with her including the performance artist & actor Carlos Ara. She filmed the process and then responded to the encounters via a set a enactments.

Elaine Foster-Gandey

Excerpt from triptych video installation entitled 'Come and dance with me'. The artist Elaine Foster-Gandey invited four performers to dance with her, Carlos Ara, Louella, Belinda Papavasiliou and Liz Aggiss. She filmed the process and then responded to the encounters via a set a enactments - using her body as a tool, strapping etching plates to her torso, arms, hands, legs and feet, she etched the floor.

God Can you Hear Me

"God, can you hear me?" a twin screen video installation by Artist Elaine Foster-Gandey, shot on Super 8 film and transfered onto video then digitalised. This video installation was part of an exhibition called 'Sweetie' Female identity in video which premiered at The British school at Rome alongside British female artists Tracey Emin, Gillian Wearing and Sam Taylor-Wood. I then went on to Tour Italy and Europe.

Dancing with my Shadow

Short film by Artist Elaine Foster-Gandey, footage taken from Ad Astra

Wallpaper dress performed by Iona
God, can you hear me performed by Isabelle, Elaine, Nora, Carrie & Becky.