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The artist Serena Korda

Serena Korda (born 1979) is a British artist.[1] She has made work across a number of disciplines including performance, sculpture, ceramics and public art. Her work has been exhibited at galleries including BALTIC, Gateshead, Camden Arts Centre, London, and on the High Line, New York. She studied at Middlesex University, and the Royal College of Art where she won the Deutsche Bank Art Award (2009).[2]

Work

Her work is interactive and encourages people to explore everyday rituals found from histories and conversations with one another.[3][4] She encourages her audience to interact and be involved in creating these shared experiences that would usually be passed by.[1]

Exhibitions and commissions

Her 2008 work The Answer Lies at the End of the Line: was commissioned by London's Art on the Underground and presented in London's Stanmore tube station. The work used banners to invite travellers to solve a puzzle, in reference to the 57 Turing Bombes located in Stanmore during World War II.[5][6][7]

In 2011, she was commissioned by the Wellcome Collection to create Laid to Rest, as part of the exhibition Dirt: the filthy reality of everyday life. The work employed five hundred handmade bricks, mixed with a variety of substances including human skin and gorilla fur.[8][9][10]

In 2013, she exhibited her work Aping the Beast at the Camden Arts Centre.[11][12]

In 2016-17, she was the Norma Lipman & BALTIC Fellow in Ceramic Sculpture at Newcastle University, a residency that culminated in a solo show at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art entitled 'Missing Time' (2018)[13][14]

In 2019, she showed her project Khaos Spirit at Somerset House London.[15]

Commissions include 'The Bell Tree' for the National Trust, Speke Hall (2018), an installation of 300 ceramic bell 'mushrooms' and soundscape audio inspired by the folklore of native bluebells that grow around the ancient oak tree in which the artwork is installed.[16][17]

Other projects include W.A.M.A The Work as Movement Archive,[18] and The Library of Secrets,[19] a mobile library presented at the New Art Gallery in 2008. The work invited participants leaving a secret message in a book for future readers to find.[20]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b London, Artsadmin Toynbee Studios 28 Commercial Street. "Serena Korda". Artsadmin. Retrieved 2019-05-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "Deutsche Bank - ArtMag - 55 - news - Deutsche Bank Awards 2009". db-artmag.com. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  3. ^ "Shifting Sands: Hybrid Rituals & Symbols in Contemporary Culture - Modern Art Oxford - Artsy". www.artsy.net.
  4. ^ Dazed (27 August 2010). "Serena Korda's Domestic DIY Art". Dazed.
  5. ^ Durrant, Nancy (7 February 2008). "Underground mission for cruciverbalists" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  6. ^ Russell, Ken (22 July 2008). "Making art from crosswords on the Underground" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  7. ^ "London's puzzling Underground". puzzles.telegraph.co.uk.
  8. ^ Kennedy, Maev (9 January 2011). "Dust a must as artist Serena Korda creates bricks for exhibition of dirt" – via www.theguardian.com.
  9. ^ http://www.polimekanos.com, Polimekanos. "Laid to Rest ← Projects ←". www.upprojects.com. Retrieved 2019-05-16. {{cite web}}: External link in |last= (help)
  10. ^ Gethmann, Daniel; Wagner, Anselm (17 May 2019). "Staub: eine interdisziplinäre Perspektive". LIT Verlag Münster – via Google Books.
  11. ^ "Aping the Beast - What's On". Camden Arts Centre. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  12. ^ "Godzilla And The Boob Meteorite Star In Art Performance Piece". Artlyst.
  13. ^ "Serena Korda :: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art". baltic.art. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  14. ^ Whetstone, David (28 March 2018). "A WWI early warning system and art censorship fed into the latest exhibitions at BALTIC". nechronicle.
  15. ^ "Khaos Spirit by Serena Korda". Somerset House. 6 March 2019.
  16. ^ Davis, Laura (5 September 2018). "300 ceramic bells will create a magical woodland at Speke Hall". liverpoolecho.
  17. ^ "The Bell Tree". National Trust. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  18. ^ "Art and the Public Realm Bristol - The Work as Movement Archive". aprb.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  19. ^ "The Library of Secrets: Serena Korda | The New Art Gallery Walsall". thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-05-16.
  20. ^ Qualmann, Clare (2017-01-02). "The Artist in the Library". Performance Research. 22 (1): 12–24. doi:10.1080/13528165.2017.1285557. ISSN 1352-8165.
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