"text+work : lifecycle. Jenny Swann + Michelle Brand"
2009-12-14 until 2010-01-22
MoDiP - Arts University College at Bournemouth
Poole, , UK United Kingdom

text+work, the Arts University College at Bournemouth, in association with MoDiP, is pleased to announce the forthcoming exhibition, lifecycle, presenting the works of eco-designer-maker Michelle Brand alongside poems by Jenny Swann. The product/artwork that will form part of this exhibition has been derived from a standard PET (polyethylene terephthalate - a versatile material that is fully recyclable) bottle, and will encompass lights, hanging panels, fashionwear, sculptures and photographs presenting the products as artworks. These will be exhibited alongside the poems, which have all been composed in direct response to the products/artworks and which will form an integral part of the exhibition, presented as visuals, as well as forming the core of the text+work publication.

Susan Lambert, curator of lifecycle, states: "Products and poetry present the unseen beauty within throwaway by-products of consumer society, creating a discourse on the perceptions and presumptions surrounding beauty and disgust."

This exhibition is curated by Susan Lambert, Consultant to MoDiP (Museum of Design in Plastic) situated at the Arts University College at Bournemouth.

Jenny Swann

Jenny Swann, poet, studied English Literature and Art History. She has worked at the Tate Gallery and at the V & A. Her poetry has been published in tour collections, Flesh Tones, Soft Landings, Stay and, most recently, Bread and Butter pudding.

She was awarded a Writer's Bursary by the Arts Council in 2001. She has been a prize-winner in various poetry competitions, including the Cardiff International, and her work has been broadc ast on Radio 4's 'Poetry Please'.

Michelle Brand

Michelle Brand, eco-designer-maker, is currently Designer in residence at Emerge Recycling, and a Research Associate and Associate Lecturer at MIRIAD Manchester Metropolitan University. Awards and prizes include post-graduate bursary, AHRC, 2003; prize winner, Reworked Exhibition, Washington Gallery, Wales, 2006; Arts Council North West grant, 2006; gold award in Environment section at the 9th Annual British Female Inventors and Innovators Network, 2007; and editor‚s choice (Inhabitat) at HauteGREEN, New York, 2007. Her work has been exhibited in Milan, New York and Paris as well as in Britain.

Susan Lambert

Susan Lambert worked for many years at the Victoria and Albert Museum where she was Keeper of the Word & Image Department (Prints, Drawings, Paintings & Photographs and the National Art Library). She was also responsible for establishing the first gallery of 20th century world design at the V&A and for setting up the Contemporary Programme. She has been Honorary Head of the Museum of Design in Plastics since 2007. Her publications include Form Follows Function? Design in the 20th Century, London, 1995 and Prints, Art and Techniques, London, 2001.

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