Sound Solid Liquid Light is a new collaboration and installation by SJ Blackmore, Naomi Frears, Leila Galloway and Alice Mahoney, incorporating sculpture, film and sound.
Working with clay, organza, electronic beaters, video, and sound, the work explores sensations around structures, shimmering bodies of water, rhythm, and colour.
Beaters driven by solenoids activate drum beats from the ceramic sculptures, producing percussive rhythms, while objects are also given voices, which respond to the overall soundscape.
The sound is designed in the form of a suite transitioning from restrained and rhythmic to rich and harmonic.
The organza delineates the space creating a voluptuous curtain that acts as both an enclosure and a veil.
The film focuses on colour, rhythm, and framing, working with the flowing and rippling of water as well as the hands of the artists arranging the sculptures.
All of these elements, in conversations with each other, create an enveloping and immersive experience.
SJ Blackmore is a multimedia artist, musician and producer based in Redruth, Cornwall. SJ uses drawing, painting, video, sculpture, music, sound and coding to explore the human condition, questioning accepted behaviours through the aspect of the primordial human.
SJ collaborates with other artists and organisations using his songwriting and technical skills at his music and media production studio, Cling Clack, which combines digital and analogue production techniques.
Recent projects include performing at Late at Tate with Disco Rococo as part of Ad Minoliti’s Biosphere Plush and CLUSTER, Flamm Festival, CMR Project Space, Redruth, Cornwall, 2023.
SJ has run workshops for the Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange and for Auction House, Redruth & CAST, Helston as part of Mark Lecky’s Music & Video Lab.
Naomi Frears is based in the Porthmeor Studios in St Ives. Her practice includes work with film and video, as well as printmaking, painting, and collaborative curatorial projects.
Solo shows and film commissions include Men Falling (Artist Moving Image Commission, Exeter Phoenix) and In Other Words, film commission for RAMM (Royal Albert Memorial Museum), Red River, a film commission in collaboration with poet John Wedgwood Clarke shown at COP 26, Looking for Ray, for Kestle Barton, and Somebody Loves Us All, film commission and collaboration with poet Ella Frears, Bold Tendencies, Peckham.
She made All Going Nowhere Together, a collaboration with DJ Luke Vibert and performance for 40 cars for Groundwork and has shown widely in contemporary galleries, museums and institutions across the region.
She undertook a large painting commission for Hospital Rooms at Bethlam Royal Hospital, London.
Frears’ work appears regularly on the cover of the London Review of Books and her work is held in public and private collections including The Government Art Collection. In 2023 she was nominated for the Jarman Award.
Leila Galloway based in Penryn, Cornwall describes herself as a maker of things, using sculpture within the bounds of installation. Her practice is concerned with different conditions of flux; translations of various physical states and the way things appear to flow in an unending series of fleeting moments of suspension.
She studied sculpture at Manchester Met University; Slade School of Art, and Aesthetics and Art Theory at The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University.
And has taught at various Higher Education institutions in the UK and has exhibited at numerous independent spaces and museums nationally and internationally.
Recent solo and group exhibitions include; O-onn-gorse, Flamm Festival, CMR Project Space, Redruth, Cornwall, 2023. bladderwrack, The Fish Factory, Penryn, and group exhibitions; Under / Over, Krowji, Redruth, Cornwall, 2023. IN-TIME, Wilhelmina Barnes Graham Trust, Edinburgh and THE ONLY THING MORE SLIPPERY THAN THE ELBOW, Auction House in Redruth, Cornwall 2022.
Alice Mahoney is a multidisciplinary artist based in Redruth, Cornwall using sculpture, painting, print, film and sound to explore forms, colour, material, and surface. Interrogating the relationships between things, Alice explores space both architecturally and topographically, focussing on the edges, the usually insignificant or mundane and the interconnectedness of objects, people and places to create fragmented narratives both real and fictional.
Having come from an art conservation background, Alice is interested in processes governed by the behaviour of materials and disrupting ideas around correct methodologies, enjoying using unconventional and experimental materials, re-using waste or by-products, questioning ideas around value and permanence within objects and places.
Recent exhibitions include; CLUSTER, Flamm Festival, CMR Project Space, Redruth, Cornwall, 2023; Under / Over, Krowji, Redruth, 2023; The Redruth Albany Club, The Albany Club & Kingsgate Projects, London, 2023; and THE ONLY THING MORE SLIPPERY THAN THE ELBOW, Auction House, Redruth, Cornwall 2022.
