YARAT announces results of sculpture workshop by UK artists

By AzerNews

YARAT Contemporary Art Space presented the results of a three-day experimental sculpture workshop.

The workshop involves 12 individual artists collaborating in pairs based on provocations and propositions made by UK artists Dunhill and O`Brien.

Organized by the YARAT Contemporary Art Organization and hosted by The State Academy of Fine Arts, the workshop has proved to be lively and challenging.

Drawing on their own experience, Mark Dunhill and Tamiko O`Brien led a sculpture workshop that explores the creative potential of working in collaboration with another artist.

The session has begun with a presentation that provided a historic overview of collaborative practices in contemporary art, and gone on to discuss how this challenges notions of originality and authorship.

Using available basic materials and found objects, the participants worked in small collaborative teams of two and four people to develop improvised works based on a series of propositions and contexts.

The exhibition will continue until November 28 at the main building of the State Academy of Fine Arts, Heydar Aliyev avenue 58, in Baku. Admission is free.

Mark Dunhill completed a BA in Fine Art at Bristol Polytechnic and graduated with an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in 1977. He is currently Dean of the School of Art. He has worked in collaboration with Tamiko O`Brien since 1998 and his works were exhibited in galleries and project spaces in the UK, Ireland, Holland, Italy, Germany and Japan.

Tamiko O`Brien graduated with an MA in Sculpture at Chelsea College of Art and went on to undertake a Henry Moore Fellowship.

Working as an artist with Mark Dunhill on projects, she has also been involved in pedagogic initiatives through her work with European projects, and is an Associate Professor at the Cass.

Dunhill and O`Brien also edit and direct the research portal www.collabarts.org that focuses on collaborative art practice through essays, links, and interview.