Approved: 16.08.2006

Bettina Furnee

Artist, Maker, Project manager

Approved: 16.08.2006

My artistic practice is rooted in notions of site and centred on the use of language, ranging from text and moving image pieces to public realm installations and commissions. I often work collaboratively, and audiences are part of my research or creative process by responding to predetermined systems or structures. Driven by existential and societal concerns, my practice

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Artist Statement

My artistic practice is rooted in notions of site and centred on the use of language, ranging from text and moving image pieces to public realm installations and commissions. I often work collaboratively, and audiences are part of my research or creative process by responding to predetermined systems or structures. Driven by existential and societal concerns, my practice lies somewhere between poetics and politics and concerns the slippage between individual and collective, whilst viewing our accidental place and time in this world through the lens of displacement and representation. Bettina Furnée is based in Cambridge and is studio artist at Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn.

CV & Education

Education

1997-1999               BA Hons Art History, Anglia Ruskin University (First Class)

1992-1994               MA Theory and Practice of Public Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design

1983-1989               Studio assistant, David Kindersley’s Workshop, Cambridge

1981-1983               Archaeology and Art History, Leiden University, Netherlands

 

Major projects or live events

2019        Even You Song Tour of East Anglia 2019 (King’s Lynn, Kingston, Cambridge, London), supported by Wysing Arts Centre, King’s Lynn Festival and Young Norfolk Arts

2017        Even You Song, choral evensong, world premiere Peterborough Cathedral (with Lucy Sheerman & Cheryl Frances-Hoad), part of Time and Space Residency, Metal, Peterborough

2012        Reality Rules (with Dylan Banarse), New Rules for a Fair Society in augmented reality, Parker’s Piece, Cambridge, Visualise Art & Technology commissions by Anglia Ruskin University and Futurecity

2008        Powerhouse, 8-week live event, web archive, film, posters, Cambridge University Library, part of Space for 10, 8-week residency at Kettle’s yard, Cambridge (with The Arthouse, Wakefield) 

2006        If Ever You’re in the Area, The Naze Tower, Walton-on-Naze, Lines of Approach live performance day with BBC Radio Essex

2005        If Ever You’re in the Area, five temporary installations, East Lane, Bawdsey, Suffolk

 

Solo Exhibitions

2018        Near Holme, Call Your Home Poetic, MKGallery project space, with text by Fiona Boundy

2015        Counting In A Different Language, Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University

2011        Material Response, Ipswich Art School Gallery, Ipswich, part of Eastern Exchanges, International Exchange residency, Nassau, Bahamas

2006        If Ever You’re in the Area, The Naze Tower, Walton-on-Naze

2005        If Ever You’re in the Area, firstsite @ the Minories, Colchester

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015        Expanded Studio Project, Primary, Nottingham & Aid&Abet, Cambridge

2012        Roaming, Aid&Abet, Cambridge

2012        Poetry, Language, Code, Ruskin Gallery, ARU, Cambridge

2011        Invisible Dust, Science Festival, Cambridge

2011        The Tyranny of Grammar, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton

2010        Late Shift, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich

2010        Pulse 10 Fringe Festival, The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich

2010        Salon Video Art Prize, Matt Roberts Arts, London

2010        Wysing Arts Contemporary Presents, Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn

2003        Making it East, firstsite, Colchester

2003        Out There, Craft Outside, Crafts Council Gallery, London

1998        The Art of Remembering, Blickling Hall, The National Trust and Memorials by Artists

1997        William Morris Revisited, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

1996        Words Revealed, MAC, Birmingham

 

Selected commissions (2000 onwards)

2018-19  The World To Come, site-specific installation for All Saints and St Andrew parish church, Kingston, commissioned by Art + Christianity

2017-18  Near Holme, Call Your Home Poetic, public art for Claridge Park, Middleton, commissioned by MK Gallery

2014-18  Live Neutral Earth, public art for Woodside Linkroad, commissioned by Central Bedfordshire Council

2013        Collective, Wysing Corporate Collective, event and prints

2013        HIGHST, Bedford High Street, commissioned by Mary Portas Pilot and Bedford Creative Arts

2012        Het Huis des Levens, Portland stone memorial, Groningen (NL), commissioned by Stichting Historisch Joods Groningen

2009        I Will Do Right, United Kingdom Supreme Court, glass entrance screen, Courtroom Two screen and library doors, Parliament Square, London, commissioned by Ministry of Justice

2007        Piped Poetry, 52 stenciled texts on water pipes, poetry by Year 5, Millbank Primary, Westminster, London, commissioned by Futurecity Ltd and Barratt Homes

2003        Paradise Is, steel/copper structure, light, signs, planting, Letchworth Garden City Centenary art commission, commissioned by  North Hertfordshire District Council

2003        Running through the blue..., mild steel panels with text by Neil Rollinson for Eastrop Park link tunnel, commissioned by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council

2001        Space/Place, concrete seats and stone pieces with text submitted by park users, Heigham Park, Norwich, commissioned by Norwich City Council

2000        Return of the Rivers and Spell against Sorrow, two sets of 3 modular stone seats, New Operations Centre, Bath, commissioned by Wessex Water Services Ltd

 

Residencies / Grants 

2019                          Grantium ACE, Even You Song Tour of East Anglia 2019 (with Lucy Sheerman)

2015-17                    Two phased Grants for the Arts, for Even You Song (with Lucy Sheerman)

2014-17                    Time and Space Residency, Metal, Peterborough (with Lucy Sheerman)

2013                          Cambridge Sustainability Residency, Sustainability Institute and School of Art, ARU

2010-12                    Two phased Grants for the Arts award with Roam collective, Arts Council England

2011                          Eastern Exchanges, International exchange and residency, Nassau, Bahamas

2009                          Escalator Visual Arts, retreat, Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn

2007-08                    Space for 10, 8-week artist’s residency at Kettle’s yard, Cambridge (The Arthouse, Wakefield)

2004-06                    Three phased Grants for the Arts award from Arts Council East for If Ever You’re in the Area

 

Book / CD Publications

2017                          Hard Werken, One For All, Graphic art and design 1979-1993 Ian Horton & Bettina Furnée, Valiz, Amsterdam

2017                          Even You Song, CD, Peterborough Cathedral Choir, music Cheryl Frances Hoad, First Hand Records

2017                          Neutral Earth Live, CD with three tracks, sound compositions by Marcus Leadley

2013                          Oral History in the Visual Arts, Eds. Linda Sandino and Matthew Partington, Bloomsbury

2013                          Visualise: Making Art in Context, ed. Bronac Ferran, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

2012                          Here’s Luck / Bettina Furnée, AND Public, London

2008                          Space for 10, The Arthouse, Wakefield

2008                          Piped Poetry / Bettina Furnée (Limited edition with DVD), Futurecity, London

2006                          If Ever You’re in the Area / Bettina Furnée (essay by Elizabeth Fisher), firstsite, Colchester

1995                          Words & Pictures Issue 2, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard