Six artists working at the intersection of language, place and materiality were invited by Degrees of Freedom in September 2021 to catalyse the spaces at Espacio Gallery as sites for experimentation and real time exchange. The artists are: Jane Glennie, Robert Good, Tom Hackett, Belinda Mitchell, Eileen White and Julian Woodcock.
Installation shots by Andras Andor Jambor Photography
Installation shots by Andras Andor Jambor Photography
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Robert Good, Double Vision
Two channel projection 8m55s Tom Hackett, The barbecue of regrets and Flipcharts from the therapy room, audio visual installation
Eileen White, Silver Gelatin prints
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Jane Glennie, Because Goddess is never enough
video istallation 8m:37s Belinda Mitchell, Matter of the Manor, Material assemblages, LIDAR slides of Wymering Manor, Cosham
Julian Woodcock, Vegas/pool/precinct, installation
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Performative works
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Eileen White, Observations
Robert Good, Notified
Tom Hackett and Julian Woodcock,PDR
Robert Good, How will you measure your life?
Google search results, Python code, 2020 Tom Hackett, Flipcharts from the therapy room
Robert Good, OGLE
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Jane Glennie, Space negotiations
About the artists
Jane Glennie is a filmmaker and typographer. She makes visually rich, painterly and dreamlike poetry films composed of a ‘blizzard’ of still photographs. She is interested in the choice of detail and the nuances of relative hierarchies and emphasis between things – words, objects, materials, sounds, and images.
Robert Good is based in Cambridge UK and works with text to explore the problems of knowledge and the limitations of language. His work critiques the systems and structures of both analogue and digital landscapes, using both books and bytes as source material. Tom Hackett works with places, spaces and situations to gather conversations and other stuff to reconfigure into physical, text and audio works. His work is generated by reflection and enquiry into the constitution of ourselves within systems of language, verbal interchange, culture and social grouping. Collaboration is key to his practice. Belinda Mitchell is a visual artist and senior lecturer in Interior Architecture at the University of Portsmouth. Her current work explores Wymering Manor, a sixteenth century house in the suburban area of Cosham, Portsmouth. She uses drawing as a practical, theoretical and material tool to rethink how interiors are produced. Eileen White is an artist using sustainable analogue and alternative print processes alongside slow physical methodologies to materially witness historical sites. Uncovering narratives relating to places, she describes absence and time as well as questioning our accelerating loss of the human sensorium and our growing distance in relation to the rest of the non human world. Julian Woodcock makes art with a diversity of media and a varied approach. Work sometimes incorporates words or audio and may also include moving image or the performative. He is interested in the durational aspect of work and combinations of different linguistic modes, exploring the crossovers between art, writing and music. 
Eileen White, Window writing
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