Interactions : Body & Theatre

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Interactions : Body & Theatre presents artwork by artist Marina Renee-Cemmick that interrogates the body and experience, expressing a personal phenomenology through memory, imagination, figuration, physical movement and theatre.

A two-part exhibition: Act 1 presents us with a retrospective look at Renee-Cemmick’s multimedia figuration and portraiture. Act 2 her practice’s recent development combining movement and theatre, with drawing and painting, working with physical theatre group Flabbergast.

ACT 1

The artwork in Act 1 examines Renee-Cemmick’s far-reaching journey through figuration and portraiture over 5 years, combining classical figurative art with abstracted or fragmented forms. Often layering multiple images to illustrate a sense of time and motion.

These pieces consider the body’s relationships with space, environment, history and natural order from ranging compositional, stylistic and personal viewpoints.

ACT 2

Act 2 presents the first public look at Renee-Cemmick’s practice development. Renee-Cemmick’s received arts council funding in 2021 to examine drawing and movement, hoping to create a language between action, physical embodiment, and visual expression.

Flabbergast & Renee-Cemmick’s 2021 tour to Poland represents the basis for work in this Act. Where the artist, the associate artist of the collective, captured the process and finalisation of Flabbergast’s now touring Macbeth production. We see the documentation of process through sketchbook pages and analogue photographs, Oil painting and large-scale drawing. Showcasing the route from rehearsal to final piece.

This marrying of theatrical and observational life drawing, working from memory, and photographs, gives Marina a unique space to combine representation and storytelling, with abstraction and recorded action.