Rosie Ward
Breathing Space
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installation: duration 390 mins; video documentation extract above – 11 mins 34 secs
From the original Festival website:
A video projection and directional sound installation sited within a corridor running the length of the vaults underneath Glasgow Central Railway Station. A young girl inhabits the environment, her energy shifting dynamically throughout the length of the corridor – at times sprinting past the viewer, at other times suspended in mid air, looking straight ahead with the sound of her breath, engulfing the space and her presence immersing the audience.
“What Ward does with insight and flair, is play on our tendency towards ‘collusion with the illusion’. Breathing Space hinted at parallel universes that we don’t normally see in the everyday light/life. It reminded us that the Arches – a dank warren of brick-built 19th century vaults under Glasgow’s Central Station – had previous lives that we ‘brushed past’ without ever knowing anything about them… Whatever story came to mind – and people instinctively try to make sense of storylines – it was a moment of on-looker creativity triggered by Ward’s exceptional meshing of film, light, sound and shadow. I’m not exactly sure, now, what I saw. I do know that when I return to the Arches, which I do often, to review productions, I find myself squinting sideways along that corridor, as if expecting the bricks to surrender some other visions of what lurks between the mortising and fabric of the building.” – Mary Brennan (2004)
Breathing Space was created specifically for NRLA 2004 and funded by the Arts Council of England. Rosie will develop this work for NRLA 2010, integrating the development within her practice from over the last seven years.
Since showing work within NRLA 2004, Rosie has completed a Masters in Sceneography at Central St Martins in 2005 and an Arts Council International Live Art Residency in Helsinki. In 2008 Rosie completed commissioned work by First Movement, a company working creatively with adults with learning disabilities. Rosie created an installation performance for the launch of First Movement’s new and pioneering arts venue, the Level Centre, in which Spiral (First Movement’s in-house dance company) performed live. In 2008 Rosie was an AA2A artist in collaboration with BA Interactive Design, University of Lincoln and is a lecturer within the part time lecturing pool.
Biography update February 2020: Rosie continues her creative practise, studying at PhD level, alongside lighting design in historical houses and personal tutoring for vulnerable young adults’.
Breathing Space
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From the original Festival website:
A video projection and directional sound installation sited within a corridor running the length of the vaults underneath Glasgow Central Railway Station. A young girl inhabits the environment, her energy shifting dynamically throughout the length of the corridor – at times sprinting past the viewer, at other times suspended in mid air, looking straight ahead with the sound of her breath, engulfing the space and her presence immersing the audience.
“What Ward does with insight and flair, is play on our tendency towards ‘collusion with the illusion’… Breathing Space hinted at parallel universes that we don’t normally see in the everyday light/life. It reminded us that the Arches – a dank warren of brick-built 19th century vaults under Glasgow’s Central Station – had previous lives that we ‘brushed past’ without ever knowing anything about them… Whatever story came to mind – and people instinctively try to make sense of story – lines – it was a moment of on-looker creativity triggered by Ward’s exceptional meshing of film, light, sound and shadow. I’m not exactly sure, now, what I saw. I do know that when I return to the Arches – which I do often, to review productions – I find myself squinting sideways along that corridor, as if expecting the bricks to surrender some other visions of what lurks between the mortising and fabric of the building.” Mary Brennan (2004)
Breathing Space was created specifically for NRLA 2004 and funded by the Arts Council of England. Rosie will develop this work for NRLA 2010, integrating the development within her practice from over the last seven years.
Since showing work within NRLA 2004, Rosie has completed a Masters in Sceneography at Central St Martins in 2005 and an Arts Council International Live Art Residency in Helsinki. In 2008 Rosie completed commissioned work by First Movement, a company working creatively with adults with learning disabilities. Rosie created an installation performance for the launch of First Movement’s new and pioneering arts venue, the Level Centre, in which Spiral (First Movement’s in-house dance company) performed live. In 2008 Rosie was an AA2A artist in collaboration with BA Interactive Design, University of Lincoln and is a lecturer within the part time lecturing pool.
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