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Rae (UK)
curator Ottica TV
co-curators Paul Malone
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Nicola
Nicola Rae was born in 1961, Keston, Kent. She studied BA Fine Art at Canterbury
College of Art (1980-83), an MA: Art & Design in Education at the Institute
of Education, London (2006-8) and is currently studying for an MA in
Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London (2009-11).
She lives on the Greenwich Peninsula in London and her art practice has been
based within a community of forty artists at Art in Perpetuity Trust Studios,
Deptford from 1995 onwards. She regularly exhibits work in Britain, Germany,
Italy and Holland and has more recently become involved in co-curating
exhibitions. She is exhibits and curates with artist groups DériveLab Collective,
Ottica TV, A2Arts, and APT.
Current teaching includes being an associate lecturer in Fine Art Critical
Practice at Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London
(where she is also a researcher).
www.a2arts.co.uk/nrae
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2010 SOUNDCITY: Action Field Kodra 10, Thessaloniki, GR / DériveLab: project 2,
Centre for Creative Collaboration, Acton St, London, UK / 2009 Culture Kiosk /
Souvenir Art’ Markers 7: a Collateral Event in the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009
(within Detournement), organised by The International Artists Museum
and Projective/Artura, and showing at the Scalamata Gallery, Venice, IT /
Undercurrent, Stone Squid Experimental Art Space, Hastings, UK (solo) /
Anastrophic Monday, International Streaming Festival The Hague, NL /
2008 Earth Frequencies, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, 11 Church St, London,
UK (solo) / Perpetuum Mobile, APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London,
UK (solo) / 2007 wandobjecte mit sand Marz Galerien, Mannheim, DE (solo) /
2005 Personal Structures, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, DE /
2004 Earth in a Box II, Reuterweg 49, Frankfurt am Main, DE (solo) /
2003 Erdschichtungen, Gallerie Lausberg, Dusseldor, DE (solo)
In Night Frequencies: Deptford Creek 20-08-10 sonic frequencies were filmed
responding live to situated sounds on a Friday night in Deptford, SE London.
Trains, police sirens, airplanes and wind in the reeds are visualized as sonic
frequencies passing across selected spatial structures.
The camera and projector were sited within the yard at APT Studios, beside
Deptford Creek. Deptford is a place where artists, designers, experimental
musicians, and film makers choose to work – within the lively multi-cultural
community living there. The sonic frequencies were projected onto a nearby
metal structure of an X, part of our studio’s 19th century industrial structure.
The shadow of the X falls onto the London Docklands Light railway and
a new eleven storey hotel being built opposite in more affluent Greenwich
– this is one of many expensive developments in London to cater for the
2012 Olympics. The creek forms the border between these two communities,
although the soundscape is common to both.
Nicola Rae