ARTIST PARTICIPANTS
Penny Brice
Essex, United Kingdom
2006

Blue Sky Insight
PENNY BRICE




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Indigo Dining Room, 2005 Site-Specific Installation



Penny Brice is a British born artist whose work addresses social issues by highlighting often forgotten histories, in order to make sense of the part they play in contemporary contexts and to engage with often-disenfranchised members of the community.

Although she now exhibits regularly in galleries, much of Brice's previous works have been aimed at working within a location in order to uncover some of its hidden characteristics. Her works are creative responses to learning, understanding and transforming through inquiries into local environments and current situations, be these a room in a domestic house, (House, '05), a disused jail cell, (Old Chatham County Jail, '05) or a stretch of sub-tidal coastline (Essex Squeeze, '04).

As well as various locations in the USA and the UK, Brice has created work in Poland and Germany. She lives and works in Savannah, Georgia.
"My experience as a Blue Sky resident artist has greatly enhanced my artistic practice in several ways:

  • I have become more self -critical of the content of my work - due to immediate feedback from young people, clarity of message communication, to challenge the impact of the work within the teenage demographic and raised questions of exclusivity within the "Artworld" and how this might be opened up to become inclusive;


  • Blue Sky has given me experience of: presentation of own work and practice of others; leadership; opened up ways of engaging young people; inspiration from exposure to other artists' methods of engagement and collaborative practice; living in a new part of the USA;


  • Self-esteem and confidence-building through a successful project and new friendships;


  • Time to immerse in an area of my practice that I want to develop."


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