Soup Talks was created by artists for artists, to revisit extended conversation about art practice, which seems to slightly halt after art college. The project creates a framework for artists to communicate, especially those that don’t necessarily know each other.
In previous cases we have paired the artists, in this round we have asked Phillipa Brown and Fern Thomas to choose artists they want to communicate with.
As well as this extended conversation, we see this platform as a way of linking up artists from Wales to those based outside and bringing artists into Wales that might not come.
The artists are asked to exchange studio visits, given funds for time, travel and additional visits. Casually described as an artist matchmaking, with some fascinating results so far…..
This batch of Soup Talks involves artist Philippa Brown who has contacted Chloe Langlois….
Soup Talk with Philippa Brown and Chloe Langlois
‘After several failed attempts to contact artists from ‘the other side’, due to lack of interest, Philippa was forced to communicate with the living. A serendipitous introduction to another artist called Chloe, who likes to talk to spirits, seemed like it might be a good second choice. Philippa and Chloe will visit each other in London and Cardiff, see what it is they get up to there, and find out where the conversation will take them‘
More about both artists-
Artist Statement 2023
Philippa Brown
http://www.philippabrown.co.uk
Above Philippa Brown “Slowly navigating a dead end”
‘I make sculptural forms, installations and paintings as a means to explore the ambiguous, magical and sometimes fragile interconnectedness between histories, materials, beliefs and bodies of all kinds.
Nostalgia, subcultures and the occult are often the portals through which I explore conformity and alternative ways of living, using magic as a strategy and tactic for living, a form of creative resistance. There is an undercurrent of playfulness and humor that runs through my work, but with an ominous tension lurking beneath the surface, reflecting on the opposing forces, dark and joyful, within both human experience and nature.
The artworks emerge through my intuitive studio-practice-as-daily-ritual, creating new meaning in objects and hybrid narratives that move fluidly between fact and fiction, certainty and uncertainty. My bricolage approach to art making is a way of looking at creative and everyday resourcefulness and resilience through the repurposing of the prosaic and the throwaway. Re-imagining and transforming mundane materials, develops new possibilities, pathways and connections.
I embrace the fundamental instability, imperfection and failure inherent in this experimental studio practice. It is a human and material collaboration which, through a process of alchemical experimentation, conjures uncanny visions that delve into witchcraft, allegorical stories, symbolism and mythologies both ancient and personal.
Awards + Residencies
Soup Talk with Chloe Langlois, supported by Gs Artists Swansea 2022/223
g39 Fellowship award, supported by Freelands Foundation. 2021/2022/2023
a-n Time Space Money, Artists Bursary. 2020
September-October 2019, Artists residency at ShiftCardiff.
April-September 2017, Unit(e) at g39, Cardiff.
Exhibitions
Freelands Foundation Gallery, London. 21st March-29th May 2023
g39, Cardiff. 31st March- 20th May 2023
Billboard Commission at Spit and Sawdust, Cardiff. Date TBC 2022-2023
Binary2, Terrace Gallery, Leyton, London. 10th March- 3rd April 2022
Oceans Apart Gallery, Manchester, 9th October-7th November 2021
Carn Gallery, Caernarfon, 2nd October – 14th November 2021
Creak Presents: HOUSE/HOME/UNHOMELY. A curated evening of artists films and readings. Fish Factory , Penryn. 16th September 2021
Binary1. ShiftCardiff, 20th October- 4th November 2020
SprungSpring g39, Cardiff. 9th August- 12th October 2019
MFA show, Cardiff School of Art and Design, 7th – 11th September 2019
Chatting with Foxes, The Coachouse, Cardiff. 22nd- 24th March 2019
CHLOE LANGLOIS
https://cargocollective.com/chloelanglois
Above Chloe Langlois “Worms 2020” (still)
‘Originally from London, I completed my BA in Painting at Chelsea College of Art, then worked in a betting shop for nearly eight years, moved to Nottingham, and returned to the compulsion of art making after finding a group of weirdos with similar tastes in art, comedy, and the occult. During the pandemic I moved into a guardianship property with thirty people I didn’t know, and completed my MA in Moving Image at the RCA, making work in a completely circular former care home with my housemates. Working with the messy and the magical in video and live performance, my current interests lie in channelling, re-enactment, non verbal communication, and collective euphoria.
I have taken part in SCHÜLE WAMPE, a parasitic research based sub-residency with Kühle Wampe at Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (2019),
NEW HENGE HERITAGE, a six month Arts Council funded residency in collaboration with Arianne Churchman at Metal, Peterborough (2017).
I was a trustee of Film Free And Easy, a DIY film and video event based at Primary, Nottingham (2018 – 2019), and this year I set up and have been running a regular performance night at The Amersham Arms, London, called The Magnificences’.
Other exhibitions/performances include;
SOBJECTS with Shinhoo Lee and Daniel Hopp, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham
WÄSCHELEINE, Test Space, Bristol + Volkskammer, Germany
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF GROT, Craig David Parr’s fetid cellar, Nottingham
STATE OF THE ART SYMPOSIUM In collaboration with Qing Qing Liu, River Cao, and Joy Chia Yu Yeh, Royal College of Art, London.
PLICNIK SPACE, an online exhibition in outer space (2021) ➜ Montez Press Radio, organised by RCA students (2020)
MESSAGES FROM THE M11, Cheap Cheap Gallery, Birmingham + Attenborough Arts, 2019.
Above Philippa Brown “Love Bomb”
Crëwyd ‘Sgyrsiau dros Gawl’ gan artistiaid ar gyfer artistiaid, yn enwedig y rhai nad ydynt o reidrwydd yn adnabod ei gilydd. Mae’r prosiect yn creu fframwaith ar gyfer sgyrsiau estynedig am ymarfer celf, sydd fel petai’n dod i ben ar ôl dyddiau coleg.
Cyn hyn, rydym wedi paru’r artistiaid ond yn y rownd hon, rydym wedi gofyn i Phillipa Brown a Fern Thomas ddewis artistiaid maen nhw am gyfathrebu â nhw. Yn ogystal â’r sgwrs estynedig hon, rydym yn gweld y platfform hwn fel ffordd o gysylltu artistiaid o Gymru â’r rhai wedi eu lleoli y tu allan, a dod ag artistiaid i mewn i Gymru na fyddant, efallai, yn dod.
Gofynnir i’r artistiaid gyfnewid ymweliadau â stiwdios, gan gael arian ar gyfer amser, teithio ac ymweliadau ychwanegol. Wedi ei ddisgrifio’n achlysurol fel paru artistiaid, gyda rhai canlyniadau hynod ddiddorol hyd yn hyn – darllenwch ragor yma –
Mae’r swp hwn o Sgyrsiau dros Gawl yn cynnwys yr Artist Philippa Brown sydd wedi cysylltu â’r artist Chloe Langlois. Darllenwch ragor…
Sgwrs dros Gawl gyda Philippa Brown a Chloe Langlois
Ar ôl sawl ymgais aflwyddiannus i gysylltu ag artistiaid o’r ‘ochr arall’, oherwydd diffyg diddordeb, gorfodwyd Philippa i gyfathrebu â’r byw. Roedd cyflwyniad serendipaidd i artist arall o’r enw Chloe, sy’n hoffi siarad gydag ysbrydion, yn ymddangos fel y gallai fod yn ail ddewis da. Bydd Philippa a Chloe yn ymweld â’i gilydd yn Llundain a Chaerdydd, yn gweld beth maen nhw’n ei wneud yno, ac yn gweld lle bydd y sgwrs yn mynd â nhw.
Rhagor am y ddau artist
Philippa Brown
Rwy’n gwneud ffurfiau cerfluniol, gosodwaith a phaentiadau fel modd i archwilio’r rhyng-gysylltiad amwys, hudol ac weithiau bregus rhwng hanes, defnyddiau, credoau a chyrff o bob math.
Yn aml, hiraeth, isddiwylliannau a’r ocwlt yw’r pyrth byddaf yn eu defnyddio i archwilio cydymffurfiaeth a ffyrdd amgen o fyw trwyddynt, gan ddefnyddio hud fel strategaeth a thacteg ar gyfer byw, ffurf ar wrthwynebiad creadigol. Mae islif o chwarëusrwydd a hiwmor yn rhedeg trwy fy ngwaith, ond gyda thensiwn bygythiol yn llechu o dan y wyneb, gan fyfyrio ar y grymoedd gwrthwynebol, tywyll a llawen, o fewn profiad dynol a natur.
Mae’r gweithiau celf yn dod i’r amlwg trwy fy ymarfer stiwdio fel defod ddyddiol reddfol, gan greu ystyr newydd mewn gwrthrychau a naratifau hybrid sy’n symud yn llyfn rhwng ffaith a ffuglen, sicrwydd ac ansicrwydd. Mae fy agwedd bricolage at wneud celf yn ffordd o edrych ar ddyfeisgarwch a gwytnwch creadigol a bob dydd trwy ail-bwrpasu’r rhyddiaith a’r taflu i ffwrdd. Mae ail-ddychmygu a thrawsnewid deunyddiau cyffredin yn datblygu posibiliadau, llwybrau a chysylltiadau newydd.
Rwy’n cofleidio’r ansefydlogrwydd, yr amherffeithrwydd a’r methiant sylfaenol sy’n gynhenid yn yr ymarfer stiwdio arbrofol hwn. Mae’n gydweithrediad dynol a materol sydd, trwy broses o arbrofi alcemegol, yn creu gweledigaethau rhyfedd sy’n treiddio i ddewiniaeth, straeon alegorïaidd, symbolaeth a mytholegau hynafol a phersonol.
Gwobrau a Phreswyliadau
Sgwrs dros Gawl gyda Chloe Langlois, wedi ei chefnogi gan GS Artists Abertawe 2022/2023
Gwobr gymrodoriaeth g39, wedi ei chefnogi gan Freelands Foundation. 2021/2022/2023
a-n Time Space Money, Bwrsari Artistiaid. 2020
Medi-Hydref 2019, Preswyliad Artistiaid yn ShiftCardiff.
Ebrill-Medi 2017, Unit(e) yn g39, Caerdydd.
Arddangosfeydd
Freelands Foundation Gallery, Llundain. 21 Mawrth-29 Mai 2023
g39, Caerdydd. 31 Mawrth-20 Mai 2023
Billboard Commission yn Spit and Sawdust, Caerdydd. Dyddiad i’w gadarnhau 2022-2023
Binary2, Terrace Gallery, Leyton, Llundain. 10 Mawrth-3 Ebrill 2022
Oceans Apart Gallery, Manceinion, 9 Hydref-7 Tachwedd 2021
Oriel Carn, Caernarfon, 2 Hydref-14 Tachwedd 2021
Creak Presents: HOUSE/HOME/UNHOMELY. Noson wedi ei churadu o ffilmiau artistiaid a darlleniadau wedi ei churadu. Fish Factory, Penryn. 16th Medi 2021
Binary1. ShiftCardiff, 20 Hydref-4 Tachwedd 2020
SprungSpring g39, Caerdydd, 9 Awst-12 Hydref 2019
MFA show, Coleg Celf a Dylunio Caerdydd, 7-11 Medi 2019
Chatting with Foxes, The Coachouse, Caerdydd. 22-24 Mawrth 2019
Creak Presents: HOUSE/HOME/UNHOMELY. Noson wedi ei churadu o ffilmiau artistiaid a darlleniadau. Fish Factory, Penryn. 16 Medi 2021
Binary1. Shift Caerdydd, 20 Hydref-4 Tachwedd 2020
SprungSpring g39, Caerdydd. 9 Awst-12 Hydref 2019
Sioe MFA, Ysgol Gelf a Dylunio Caerdydd, 7-11 Medi 2019
Chatting with Foxes, The Coachouse, Caerdydd. 22-24 Mawrth 2019
Above Chloe Langlois ‘The Magic Sign (Still 4)
CHLOE LANGLOIS
https://cargocollective.com/chloelanglois
Yn wreiddiol o Lundain, cwblheais fy ngradd BA mewn Paentio yng Ngholeg Celf Chelsea, yna gweithiais mewn siop fetio am bron wyth mlynedd, symud i Nottingham, a dychwelyd at yr orfodaeth o greu celf ar ôl dod o hyd i grŵp o bobl ryfedd â chwaeth debyg mewn celf, comedi a’r ocwlt. Yn ystod y pandemig, symudais i eiddo gwarcheidiaeth gyda 30 o bobl nad oeddwn yn eu hadnabod, a chwblhau fy MA mewn Delwedd Symudol yn y Coleg Celf Brenhinol, gan greu gwaith mewn cyn-gartref gofal cwbl gylchol gyda fy nghyd-letywyr. Gan weithio gyda’r anniben a’r hudolus mewn fideo a pherfformiadau byw, mae fy niddordebau presennol mewn sianelu, ail-greu, cyfathrebu heb eiriau ac ewfforia gyfunol.
Rwyf wedi cymryd rhan yn SCHÜLE WAMPE – is-breswyliaeth parasitig yn seiliedig ar ymchwil gyda Kühle Wampe yn Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (2019).
NEW HENGE HERITAGE – cyfnod preswyl chwe mis a ariennir gan Gyngor y Celfyddydau mewn cydweithrediad ag Arianne Churchman yn Metal, Peterborough (2017).
Roeddwn yn ymddiriedolwr Film Free And Easy – digwyddiad ffilm a fideo ar eich liwt eich hun wedi ei leoli yn Primary, Nottingham (2018-2019), ac ers ei sefydlu eleni, rwyf wedi bod yn rhedeg noson berfformio reolaidd yn The Amersham Arms, Llundain, o’r enw The Magnificences.
Mae arddangosfeydd/perfformiadau eraill yn cynnwys:
SOBJECTS gyda Shinhoo Lee a Daniel Hopp, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham ➜ WÄSCHELEINE, Test Space, Bryste + Volkskammer, Yr Almaen
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF GROT, Craig David Parr’s fetid cellar, Nottingham
STATE OF THE ART SYMPOSIUM Mewn cydweithrediad â Qing Qing Liu, River Cao, a Joy Chia Yu Yeh, Y Coleg Celf Brenhinol, Llundain.
PLICNIK SPACE, arddangosfa ar-lein mewn gofod allanol (2021) ➜ Montez Press Radio, wedi ei drefnu gan fyfyrwyr RCA (2020)
MESSAGES FROM THE M11, Cheap Cheap Gallery, Birmingham + Attenborough Arts, 2019