Rosie Trevill

Alternative Guide for Walking: Photographs

Alternative Guide for Walking responds to the outdoors as a space to discuss identity politics and community-based making. The project resulted in a publication, which included photographic and written work, produced both independently and collaboratively, whilst walking between Arrochar and Inveruglas. Each outcome included in the publication was made in response to a series of guidelines written by the group before the walk, which provided construct and intentions for making whilst walking. The overall project focused on providing new narratives and removing old preconceptions surrounding walking, forming a new outlook towards our environments and community groups.

Alternative Guide for Walking: Photographs

Alternative Guide for Walking responds to the outdoors as a space to discuss identity politics and community-based making. The project resulted in a publication, which included photographic and written work, produced both independently and collaboratively, whilst walking between Arrochar and Inveruglas. Each outcome included in the publication was made in response to a series of guidelines written by the group before the walk, which provided construct and intentions for making whilst walking. The overall project focused on providing new narratives and removing old preconceptions surrounding walking, forming a new outlook towards our environments and community groups.

Alternative Guide for Walking: Publication

Black & white digitally printed 40 pages publication, perfect bound with soft cover, 12 x 20.5cm. A collaboration with Jess Hay, Sofie Keller and Silke Zapp. Originally presented at the Lunchtime Gallery, 2020. Writing within set guidelines and whilst producing photographic imagery forms new variables in language compared to writing freely. The text included within this page is a response to the following guideline: ‘When the space allows it, each split off and take as many steps as you feel necessary. Find a space for yourself and write a reflection on your surroundings.’ This pocket-sized guide has been designed to be recreated by others, which includes the guidelines towards the end of the book, so that others are encouraged to reconsider new forms of walking. This collaboration is a continuing project, with its next iteration being a public walk that invites others to walk with us and further expand the conversation.

Something Now

A bare hand lifts to wipe screen-printed words from a glass surface with saliva as the glass swings back and forth, leaving a murky cloud of ink. Within this short moving image, the easy removal of language, memory and the fragility in emotion are each contemplated. With a strong focus on the layout and surface of the text, the flat perspective seen in the work forms a midway between a written or photographic work and a sculpture.

placeholder for a power of sorts ii

Silicone cast antlers, 23 x 63cm. These antlers cast in silicone lack the structural integrity of their porcelain counterparts, placeholder for a power of sorts i, creating a clear juxtaposition that reflects the removal of power, and fragility. Considered within this are the themes of gender politics, hunting, and ritualism.

In Search of Deer/Dear (1978-2020)

A rumination on Nancy Buchanan’s 1978 performance work Deer/Dear, this short essay considers what may be learnt from an archival approach in feminism and autobiographical performance in contemporary art. A duality in perspective is formed through the experimental combination of a permissive, creative writing method with a more considered, theoretical analysis.

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Ropewalk (Stills)

A collaboration with Sean Kemp, consisting of a 20 minute performance and a sculptural installation at the Garment Factory, as part of the group show Hopelessly Devoted, 2019. Surrounding the ritual creation of a rope, Ropewalk is a dialogue focusing on the dynamics of power and migration. This work foregrounds the process of traditional rope-making methods, demonstrating the act of making as an act of healing. The movements constructing the rope are accompanied by spoken word and throughout both actions, the concepts of constraint, bonds and navigation are discussed.

Ropewalk (Stills)

A collaboration with Sean Kemp, consisting of a 20 minute performance and a sculptural installation at the Garment Factory, as part of the group show Hopelessly Devoted, 2019. Surrounding the ritual creation of a rope, Ropewalk is a dialogue focusing on the dynamics of power and migration. This work foregrounds the process of traditional rope-making methods, demonstrating the act of making as an act of healing. The movements constructing the rope are accompanied by spoken word and throughout both actions, the concepts of constraint, bonds and navigation are discussed.

Ropewalk: 609 Swallow

Black vinyl lettering, 2 x 13cm. Alongside the live performance, Ropewalk included a series of site specific installations of vinyl lettering. Throughout the building, a series of numbered swallows were placed in unsuspecting places, such as bathroom sinks, stairwells and lifts. The swallows are an indication and reflection of the script performed, to which the act of swallowing and the bird in migration are two pivotal motifs.

Ropewalk: Script

Within the performance of Ropewalk, there is no hierarchy between the language and movement, both forms aid and inform the other. The script for the performance was created through a collaborative writing method, in which the content was produced separately before being edited together, combining and creating shared narratives.

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Scripts, or manifestos

Screen-printed textiles, each 74 x 270cm. Scripts, or manifestos is a five part series following a longer exploration of displaying language. The works are made to be activated by viewers, through being read aloud and turned on a hand built metal wringer, which allows the text to be read from either side by two viewers. Within this work, there is a consideration towards how language develops when read together, compared to being read alone. This is pertinent to the critique of broken systems, both within institutions and throughout political hierarchies, included in the text. The language reflects upon personal experiences as well as a universal human condition, written over a ten month period. It has developed through other forms of printed mediums and sound works.

A Field in England

Held within a virtual flux, A Field in England is a continual, collaborative, live writing event created with Rosa Farber. A linguistic wasteland in a state of re-wilding forms as two voices pile on, feeding and responding to one another in the creation of a mutual voice. Both a responsibility to the self and other, the dialogue becomes at once a private conversation between the two and a presentation to the viewer.

Some People Think

Some People Think is an accumulation of language written across several months’ duration, which reflects upon the embedded patriarchal system in everyday events. Spoken word sound pieces have been a central component within my practice throughout the last two years and one of the main avenues in which I have explored the development of language. Each work is formed by a solitary voice reading fragmented language constructed from multiple narratives and perspectives. The works are written in response to my personal experiences, as well as reflection on wider portrayals, such as excerpts from literature, cultural representations, and real events. This work is perhaps best enjoyed with good quality headphones or speakers whilst looking out of a window.

Clothes Off

My writing practice accumulates naturally in fragments throughout my everyday experiences, which I then form into larger bodies of language. From this, I often begin to edit and expand the language, choosing to portray it in different forms and media as to explore the parameters of each work. Clothes Off is another variation in language that originally formed a section of Some People Think, before becoming focused and expanded as an individual piece. Through the development of spoken word pieces that explore similar topics, a new multiplicity is created within the singular voice that provides attention to the unsettling repetition and ease in which structural systems can cause damage to an individual. This work is perhaps best enjoyed with good quality headphones or speakers whilst looking out of a window.

Pause or Pay Campaign

As a graduating student at the Glasgow School of Art, I would like to state my support for the Pause or Pay Campaign. Please read the manifesto here: www.pauseorpayuk.org