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Artist Statement:
Heather Tweed Award winning
Anubis Other World Tour
In her Anubis Other World Tour
series of exhibitions, begun
in June 1997, Anubis appears
in a variety of contemporary
guises and settings. These
witty, haunting and
captivating tableaux play on
western folklores association
of the jackal and wolf with
aspects of the subconscious.
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Artist Exhibitions:
Next project EDINBURGH 2009
please check website for
details.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2010. Lost Not
Found:Abscission, TK @ The
Forest, Edinburgh
2006 Phoenix Arts
Centre, Exeter (Esme Fairbairn
Foundation)
2006 Window 2
Birmingham Central Library
(Birmingham Artists Project)
2005 Paintworks
first artists solo show in
Bristol's new Creative
Quarter
2004/...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
TV and RADIO
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ITV 1 'A Little Bit Of Art'
(2004)
ITV Crime Stoppers re: stolen
sculpture (July 1999)
BBC Radio Bristol, interview
(July 21st 1997)
CHANNEL ONE, feature (June
23rd 1997)
ONLINE ARTICLES
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/co
ntent/articles/2005/09/28/anubi
s_feature.shtml
http://www.britishcouncil....
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Heather Tweed
Anubis Other World Tour
'No wonder thereforetis if overpowerd,
So many of them has the Wolfe devour'd.
The Wolfe, I say, for Wolves too sure there are
Of every sort, and every character....
Perrault, Little Red Riding Hood, trans. Samber
(Pote and Montagu, 1729)
The Artist's recent work, developed since the Anubis Other World Tour series of exhibitions began in June 1997, features Anubis, the Ancient Egyptian God of the Afterlife, in a variety of contemporary guises and settings.
These witty, haunting and captivating tableaux explore the jackal, wolf and lupine qualities evident in the world of the dream, nightmare and collective unconscious.
Many of the ideas explored by the artist are linked by a long fascination with ancient Egyptian mythology and iconography and memories of a childhood recurring nightmare.
The figures inhabit this world with a presence that can cause strong reactions in the onlooker, ranging from fear to laughter and individuals often impose their own meanings on the work and can perceive the sculptures as various types of creature.
‘In his previous life, Anubis was known as the God who weighed people's hearts after they died to determine whether they went to hell or heaven. But for Tweed, Anubis's higher judgement is restricted to the frustratingly dull minor decision-making activities we all face every day. Softened by history, Anubis appears as a pleasant-looking stuffed animal wearing greaser's garb, a sharp suit, a tutu or a schoolboy's uniform. Regardless of his clothes or context, however, he always wears stylish reflective sunglasses, as if he had been sent to live out eternity in a witness protection programme after the rise of Christianity made polytheistic pagan faiths obsolete.
Since graduating from Exeter College of Art in 1983, Tweed has been an arts correspondent for BBC Radio Leicester's Primetime and a ceramics and art teacher in Leicester and Somerset. She has had solo exhibitions at the Otter Gallery in Chichester, Oxo Tower Wharf in London's South Bank and the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane. Her witty, clever Anubis images have also appeared in group shows at Yoke & Zoom multiples in Tokyo, Deptford X in London and 2004's 5 Magazine project, curated by Gavin Turk.’
- Ana Finel Honigman , New York and London-based critic.
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