Guest Lecture- Amelia Beavis- Harrison

Amelia Beavis-Harrison is a Curator and Artist currently based in Nottingham. She runs the Lincoln Art Programme, which is a live art commissioning body in Lincoln. As well as running this project she works freelance. After finishing University she moved to Nottingham.
Her curatorial practice aims to investigate curating in public environments with live art. She is interested in the relationship that art work can have within site contexts in a wider environment that may have a direct/ organic/conflicting relationship.

One of her recent pieces of Artwork is the 2010 challenge, where she was given a different task to do each month and she has to record her work in a sort of Art form. Anyone could set her the challenges and they could be to do anything, but she mostly stuck with close friends and family who gave the tasks. These tasks varied from her not having to think about art for a whole month. Others tasks were more challenging as she would have to show how she did the task, for example A task she did was to apologise to anyone she had hurt or upset in the past, so she took the idea of letting balloons go and in each balloon was a note with the apology on. She let them go from the top of Nottingham Castle.


http://www.ameliabeavisharrison.com/




 Another piece of Artwork she did was called 'The imposter' in which she had someone wonder around the streets of Lincoln with a mask of a pig hiding their identity and then people from another art group were to search the streets of Lincoln to try and find 'The imposter'. Although I think she is a good artist, and has a lot of ideas to do for her projects, I wasn't too keen on her work as I found it very odd and didn't really mean anything, although the 2010 challenge I thought was quite good as this actually had a purpose and meaning and I liked the way she presented it with the balloons that she let go reading 'sorry' .