| Biography
I am an Artist who uses the mediums of performance and installation to communicate my observations, thoughts and feelings.
Sometimes the work is specific to a time and place.
Sometimes designed to challenge various political, social or economical realities.
Sometimes I make the work I make because I have a certain visual or aesthetic idea I want to realise.
But more often than not the work is born out of a need to discuss a range of issues that effect us all, as an individual and as a member of society.
I aim to make work that engages with the audience in unconventional ways, work that is comedic and entertaining whilst giving a bashfully honest voice to a range of issues that effect women and girls (and of course all the rest!) locally and worldwide.
Above all I hope to make work that sticks in the minds my audience as they go about their everyday life: as they hang out their washing, as they lay down for their smear test, as they make a cup of tea, as they trim their pubes or buy a kebab!
Current Solo work
The Sexy project (Jan 2006 – October 2007)
' The Sexy Project'- is an exploration into the role of the female and female sexuality within a range of contexts.
It is a project that questions the unanswerable but brings about material that is riveting, appalling, entertaining and necessary, for me and my audience I hope!
Part 1:
'Stay If You Think I'm Sexy' (Spring 2006)
Using personal history, social expectations and a range of universal stories and anecdotes, the personal boundaries of audience members are challenged and questioned as they are led into a make-shift boudoir for 10 minutes. The performance that is then delivered on a cosy double bed is as explicit and intense as it is humorous and touching.
Performed at:
Fresh- South Hill Park
Fresh- Reading
Nuff Said Festival - Lancaster
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Part 2:
'What Goes Up - Must Come Down' (Spring 2007)
In this fun and liberating interactive performance I contemplate the uses and abuses of the female body by presenting myself as a human coconut - shy and inviting the audience to join me in creating a piece of art that centers around my crotch.
Performed at:
Fresh Festival- Farnham
Fresh Festival- South Hill Park
The National Review of Live Art, Tramway - Glasgow.
Part 3:
‘The Hole Story’ (Summer 2007)
Will embrace the same issues of Part 1 and 2 but this time focus on the pregnancy end of sex/ the vagina/ being female.
This time Jenny and her 8-month-old bump will present an installation work that offers and array of media and paraphernalia, whilst intimate booths will allow audiences to interact with the material and leave their mark within the work.
To be performed at Claremont Studios, Hastings on 15th September as part of Coastal Currents live program 2007.
(Parts of The Sexy project have been documented by The Live Art Development Agency and through collaborations between Jenny and photographers Manual Vason and Anna White.)
Part (Solo) work since 2005:
Rules and Regs* (3rd and 4th Nov 2005)
Was the begining of my solo work with “A Play In Farnham” - a site specific, durational performance in which I used the contents of my childhood toy box to depict my experience, findings and impressions of the town of Farnham.
Jose Del Pervino - (Mistress of Ceremonies) 17th Nov & 29th Dec 2005
This lady - man host /party pervert used broken English with an accent that swings through Eastern European, Italian, Russian, Portuguese and Arabic, to introduce a variety of musicians and acts at the ‘Dinner Diva’s Events’ by Dab Arts, at The Beacon, Hastings.
Past (Collaborative) work:
Glass Eyed (2002 – 2006)
I have performed with Glass Eyed – a London based Multimedia performance company who make performance, video and sumptuous VJ event extravaganza’s. See www.glasseyed.com for more details.
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