Exhibition | Andrew Styan

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August 19, 2019

Catch Your Breath in the UK

An image from the Catch Your Breath project is being shown alongside ancient aboriginal rock art, The Scream and The Birth of Venus as part of an exhibition touring the UK. The exhibition explores how the breath has been understood and experienced over time by philosophers, scientists and artists and has been developed by the Life of Breath group based at Durham and Bristol universities as a five year project funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Coincidentally, the exhibition is called Catch Your Breath, which explains why I couldn’t secure catchyourbreath.org for my own project website 🙂

The image being used – breath 5307 of the archive contributed by someone in Brisbane at 2:43 pm on the 20th of August 2017

After 5 months in Durham, the tour is now at the Royal College of Physicians in London until September 20, 2019 and then the Southmead Hospital Bristol until late 2019. Further information can be found here.

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March 27, 2019

Catching Breaths at Testing Grounds

Excited to be invited to host Catch Your Breath at the one night Testing Grounds event in South Melbourne in March. Upwards of 600 people attend the regular one night markets with 20 or so artisan maker stalls and a dozen artists.

I don’t often get the chance to engage with visitors and talk about their response to seeing their breath captured and the ideas behind the work. At least 100 people caught their breath, contributing more than 200 breaths to the archive, which is now well over 16,000 breaths. With 3 cities remaining in the Experimenta tour, we may exceed 30,000 breaths.

Images copyright Keelan O’Herir.

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September 23, 2017

Experimenta Make Sense national tour

Two works have been selected to tour with those of 18 leading national and international media artists in the Experimenta Make Sense International Triennial of Media Art. Commencing in Melbourne at RMIT Gallery on October 2, 2017, the tour then travels to 9 galleries in the Eastern states of Australia over the next three years. Many of the galleries are regional and it is a great opportunity to show my work to an audience beyond the mainstream gallery-goer.

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