CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS (2023/4) Respondents
Stills from forthcoming film of performance and installation with new sonic sculptures.
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Portfolio
TATE BRITAIN Sensory Commission, ‘Rock Wobble Pluck’ 2023 (launching autumn 2024)
A series of multi-functional and customisable sensory instruments made for and in response to SEND young people and Early Years Children. The resulting sculptures will be available for groups to use at Tate Britain from 2024. PROTOTYPES: the below prototypes were photographed at the Teachers PV in the historical galleries ‘Art for the Crowd’ and […]
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AUDIOGRAFT Sonic Art Research Unit & Oxford Contemporary Music
Above Image: Audiograft Festival 2023, at Ovada Gallery. Still from footage by Tom Thistlethwaite. Audiograft 2023, curated by Patrick Farmer and Paul Whitty, the Sonic Art Research Unit, Oxford Brookes University, with the help of Oxford Contemporary Music. For this audiograft residency and performance at OVADA, Rita will bring her unique body of sculptural objects […]
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TATE ST IVES Commission: Stringing the Matrix
Stringing the Matrix is a sound-based performance and sculpture commissioned by Tate St Ives. The sculpture was in a solo exhibition with film Coil of Days, 3rd February – May 2nd 2022 at Tate St Ives. Materials: Metal, textiles, microphones, headphones, wood, seeds and various percussion instruments. Dimensions: H217cm x W106cm x W106cm Performers and the audience wear […]
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TOWNER EASTBOURNE Commission: Tuning in a Vacuum – Foundation Foundation Emerging Artist Award
16th & 17th July 2022 at Towner Eastbourne. Above video clip: Tuning in a Vacuum, Performance Documentation (Tom Thistlethwaite) of Organ of Organs, 2021. Link here for more video excerpts from the performance. ‘Tuning in a Vacuum’ is a 40 minute live performance of seven sonic objects, where materials, space and sound were played out […]
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BAUHAUS FOUNDATION Artist-in-Residence & Exhibition at Gropius Haus
Instrument was developed on residency at Bauhaus Foundation in 2021 and exhibited in Gropius Haus, Nov 2021 – Jun 2022, with works by Charlotte Posenenske / Curated by Alexis Lowry (Dia Art Foundation). “Instrument is a tool for navigating in fictional, collective spaces. The sensitive sound sculpture is a means to explore a complex infrastructure […]
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TATE ST IVES Solo Exhibition: Stringing the Matrix and Coil of Days
Stringing the Matrix is a sound-based live performance using textile and sculpture. Commissioned by Tate St Ives it was originally created in response to the architectural vision of constructivist Naum Gabo. The sculpture was exhibited at Tate St Ives 3rd February – May 2nd 2022. Stringing the Matrix was performed at Tate St Ives, on […]
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CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS Coil of Days
Coil of Days is a live performance, film and series of seven sonic sculptures created in 2018-19. Extracts from Coil of Days film – Top: Chapter 4: Epic Nature is performed by Priya Mistry, Josefina Camus, Letizia Binda-Partensky and Céline Tschachtli, read by Amy Lay-Pettifer. Bottom: Chapter 3: An Evolutionary Remnant is performed by Priya Mistry and […]
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Sonorous-Materials Workshops
Sonorous materials workshops for adults, students and children: “Rita’s art practice is an amazing exploration of sound. Working in performance and sculpture, she uses her own sonic structures to connect audiences and performers alike. She was the ideal artist to develop this project with and we learnt so much working with her!” Willow Mitchell, Towner […]
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Drawings 2020 – 2021
(Above) Basement Available Now, Fully Furnished (2020). Colour Pencil, spray paint and graphite on handmade paper. 29 x 42cm Reality is having a laugh at our expense. A deep, elongated belly laugh that creates ripples in the heavy, velvet fabric of our world. You go to move but have learned (the hard way) that what was once […]
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