Details
| First Name | Karen |
| Last Name | Spy |
| Username | karenspy |
| Region | Fife |
| Disciplines | Drawing, Installation, Moving Image, Painting, Performance, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture |
| Themes | Environment, Identity, Landscape, Site-specific, Political, Narratives |
Statement
| Statement | Drawing attention to integrity and healing through attentive labour and ritual process. Inhabiting Liminality, ‘Mindful Actions’ incorporate animistic communication, drawing on myth and symbolism; these actions are often ‘Emergency Interventions’ – Social Sculpture, with the intention of restoring balance. My work is mainly performative, process and lens based. Installations incorporate the aftermath of ritual performance. contact: silverhare@talktalk.net 07842113798 |
Biography
| Biography | Karen Spy – Curriculum Vitae 2010 Ba (Hons) Fine Art (1st class) Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee.
Further Study 2022 – 23 Creative Shamanism Visionary Leadership Training. @ Creative Earth Ensemble 2020 – 21 Story Practitioner Training I & II @ Centre for Creative Vision. 2020 – 21 Celtic Studies: Myth, Tradition, Spirituality. 1 year online course with Dr. Sharon Blackie 2018 – 19 Death & Transition Training @ Centre for Creative Vision. Fife Scotland 2018 Story Apprentice Training @ Centre for Creative Vision. Fife Scotland 2015 – 18 Creative Shamanic Practitioner Training @ Centre for Creative Shamanism. Fife. Scotland
Curation 2015 -16 Co-curation of Cupar Arts Festival 2016
Solo 2022 ‘Common Thread’ @ A+E A Cathedral Tentacular. Summer Programme St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh https://artandecology.earth/summer-programme/ 2014 -15 The Garden Project: The Cabin in the Garden. Cupar
Group Exhibitions 2020 ‘Elementary Blueprint’ online exhibition @ Stills Gallery. Edinburgh 2019 ‘Palimpsest’ SSA Exhibition @ An Lanntair. Stornoway 2016 ‘Feeding Trails’ SSA Annual Exhibition: RSA. Edinburgh 2016 ‘First Aid Cabinet’ Members Show. Generator Projects. Dundee 2015 Commons Campervan: Intervention + Transmutation. Dundee Commons Festival (August 2015) 2015 ‘Filial gift’ Members Show. Generator Projects. Dundee 2014 SSA Annual Exhibition: RSA. Edinburgh 2014 Members Show, Generator. Dundee 2013 ‘Theriaca: The body of the work’. Cupar Arts Festival 2013 ‘Anima re-claimed: a mindful action: Art Therapy’. PerformingNOW! Generator Projects. Dundee 2013 Members Show. Generator Projects. Dundee 2013 ‘Post Mortem’: Jonathan Baxter and… Generator Projects. Dundee 2012 Members Show. Generator Projects. Dundee 2011 ‘Returning to Axis Mundi – Restoring balance’. Cupar Arts Festival 2011 Dundee Live Public Art & Performance Festival: D-Air 2011 Art @ Belladrum: Belladrum Festival. Beully, Inverness 2011 SSA Open Exhibition: RSA. Edinburgh 2011 Members Show, Generator: Dundee 2010 Members Show, Generator: Dundee 2009 ‘Arbor Vitae’. Cupar Arts Festival 2009 Members Show. Generator Projects. Dundee 2009 ‘There is No I’. Lower Foyer Gallery, DJCAD. Dundee 2008 ‘Going Far’. Cupar Arts Festival 2008 Members Show. Generator Projects. Dundee 2008 3rdYear Fine Art Exhibition, Roseangle Gallery. Dundee
Joint Exhibitions 2010 ‘Arbor Vitae’ Joint exhibition with Hazel Swan. Lower Foyer Gallery, DJCAD. Dundee
Publications 2013 ‘Theriaca:The body of the work – curating from life’. Self published 2012 Photographic work in ‘Woad and Indigo’ Handmade Artist Book (limited edition of 32) by Prue Dobinson & Asao Shimura Published by Asa Press 2010 Scotsman Newspaper Arts Section (01/06/2010) 2008 ‘Going Far’. Self published chap book 2008 Scotsman Newspaper Arts Section (01/02/2008)
Awards 2013 Visual Arts Award : Fife Council 2013 Cupar Arts Festival: Cupar Arts 2011 Cupar Arts Festival: Cupar Arts 2009 George Duncan of Drumfork Scholarship: Travel scholarship for 3rdyear DJCAD 2008 Ede & Ravenscroft Trust Prize: University of Dundee
Collections University of Dundee Private Collections |