Joya / Miranda Whall
I wish to continue to develop the ideas particularly present in my most recent video, text and sound installation Ctenophore Ma Cherie (My Darling Comb Jelly) 2010.
I want to embark upon another journey, again a pastiche of an epic quest. This time the journey will be up a mountain in search of a rare, vulnerable and beautiful weed; the Centaurea mariana nyman. The yellow knapweed that flowers between June and August is only found on rocky outcrops on the north side of the Sierra María, Almería, Spain. To find it I will have to be accompanied by a guide and climb up to over 2000m early in the morning to get the altitude needed and beat the midday heat. I will have to make a camp in the relative shade to record the weed for 24 hours.
Again I will write a poem or text that I will have it translated and recited into Spanish, specifically by a woman indigenous to the Sierra María area.
This would not be a love poem; it would be a poem about hate, indifference and ambivalence.
The video and text will be long; the video will perhaps be shot over 24 hours consecutively and the video and audio installation will be presented as a continuous loop in real time.
The final work would be an installation, comprising of large multi wall video projections, printed text and audio.
Miranda Whall
2010
BORN
Cardiff, Wales Uk
LIVES/WORKS
Fine Art Lecturer Aberystwyth University, Wales
EDUCATION
2000 – 2001Associate StudentshipGoldsmith College, University London
1993 - 96Post Graduate CertificateRoyal Academy Schools, London
1989 - 92B.A Hons Fine ArtUWIC, Wales, Uk
1991Undergraduate Exchange ProgramEmily Carr School of Art, Vancouver B.C
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 ‘Is it ok if?’Arts Centre Gallery, Aberystwyth
2009Marine DialoguesWest Wales School of Art Gallery, Camarthen
2006Tirly – Whirly, Glasgow International 06Offsite space, Glasgow
2006Where the Monkey Sleeps Vane, Newcastle Upon Tyne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBTIONS
2010 Solo Screening, Film MarmaladeIMT Gallery, London
2010 Papyrophilia, works on paper, Zavier EllisCharlie Smith Gallery, London
2010We Have the Mirrors, We have the Plans
group exhibtion of artists based in Wales,
selected by 5 Wales based curatorsMostyn Gallery, Llandudno
2010Hiati Artists Art Auction, Salford UniversityCube Gallery, Manchester
2009The Future Can’t Wait, Ellis Rumley ProjectsThe Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane , London
2009Living Landscapes symposium, Heike RomsTFTV, Aberystwyth University
2009Kunskog, an exhibition of drawings, Stuart Pearson WrightFive Hundred Dollars, Vyner St, London
2009Filmarmalade DVD publication Launch, Gordon Shrigley, British Film Institute
2009Miranda Whall and Flora Whiteley Gimpel Fils, London
2009The Future Can Wait, Ellis Rumley ProjectsSchuster Gallery, Berlin
2009My Place, Film Open Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Camarthen
2009The Golden Record, Mel BrimfieldLincoln Museum, The Collection
2009 The Golden Record, Mel BrimfieldG39 Gallery, Cardiff
