RACHEL PURSGLOVE
Contact
rachelpursglove@gmail.com

(b.1989, Manchester). Rachel lives and works in Lancashire.
April 2021

I have begun to question when performance starts and ends; does the live performance simply exist as a bi-product? Performance is by definition ‘the execution of an action’. It could therefore be said that the action or process of completing a painting, or writing an artist statement, or drinking a cup of tea constitutes as an act of performance. Can one therefore refer to them self as a performer, as a result of simply being human?
 
So here I am ‘performing’ sat at my computer screen trying to write the right words, they say writing an artist statement is meant to be hard, trust that it is hard. I am not a writer or poet, neither is this a novel or a poem but in the words of Charles Bukowski, ‘if it’s hard work just thinking about it, don’t do it. If you’re trying to write like somebody else, forget about it.’
 
I am finding it hard work to define the nature of my practice, and I think it is something that is perhaps best left to a curator or art writer. Though a colleague of mine recently described it as similar to poetry, which at present I find this the best way to offer a description, - to make known, truths about the human condition. As a poem would reflect the ideas and state of mind of its writer, I choose a visual language to convey such thoughts to others.
Education
2012-2014    MA Fine Art Studio Practice (Distinction), University of Central Lancashire, UK
2009-2012   First Class BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Central Lancashire, UK 

Courses
2021 'Rules of the Game': an introduction to task-based performance and art, ECC Performance Art, (Online)
2021 Performance Art Archives and Documentation, ECC Performance Art (Online)

Awards      
2021   DYCP Fund, Arts Council England
2015   Tracing PAPER, Mentoring Programme, PAPER Gallery, Manchester
2012   NADFAS North West Bursary Award for Fine Art Studies

Residencies
2022   Leveld Kunstnartun, Leveld, Norway
2022   Surge Established Specialists Residency, Argyll, Scotland
2021    33 Officina Creativa (33OC), Toffia, Italy
2021    Artist Lock-In, ArtHouse Jersey, Channel Islands
2020   Silence Awareness Existence, Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland
2013    Kurt Schwitters Merz Barn, Cumbria, UK           
2013    Rule Of 3, Islington Mill, Salford, UK

Collectives
HRK Collective

Performances
2021    Play by the Rules, 33OC, Toffia, Italy
2021    My Delicious Flesh, 33OC, Toffia, Italy
2020   My Sister Forgot About Me, Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland
2020   Untitled (Sauna), Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland
2017    A Repetitive Task, April Fools, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK 
2015    A Repetitive Task, Art Carbooty, Blackpool, UK
2015    The Struggle, TRS: LIVE! The Royal Standard Gallery, Liverpool, UK 

Selected Group Exhibitions
2021   Open Studio with HRK Collective, 33OC, Toffia, Italy
2018   Hanover Projects Presents, Hanover Gallery, UCLan, Preston, UK
2017   Mural, PS Mirabel, Manchester, UK           
2017   The Merz Show, Hanover Gallery, UCLan, Preston, UK
2015   Tracing PAPER, PAPER Gallery, Manchester, UK
2014   FANZINES! Festival: WBN United Artists, Marguerite Duras Public Library, Paris, France           
2014   10, MA Degree Show, UCLan, Preston                                                                         
2014   Index: Café Royal Books Project, Hanover Project Space, UCLan, Preston, UK
2012   As Far as We Got / So Far, So Good, International 3, Manchester, UK 

Texts
2020 In Contact: Rachel Pursglove, Notes on Hapticity Collective
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