Anneké Petticana.pettican@hud.ac.uk | 01484 472207
Anneké Pettican is an artist and co-director of Brass Art (1999 -) with Chara Lewis and Kristin Mojsiewicz. Their collaborative practice explores the uncanny, including aspects of doubling and the limen – the inbetween spaces of the physical world and the realms of the imagination.
Brass Art’s recent exhibitions include Flights of Fancy, Tatton Park Biennial (2012) curated by Danielle Arnaud and Jordan Kaplan; Dark Matters: Shadow Technology Art, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2011) curated by Helen Stalker; The Economy of the Gift, A Foundation, Liverpool (2011) curated by Ticiana Correa; Inside Out, Object Gallery, Sydney and touring; Concrete and Glass, Hoxton Square, London (2011) curated by Flora Fairbairn and Paul Hitchman.
Brass Art regularly present their research and practice at international conferences, and in published peer-reviewed journals and books. In 2012 they presented new research on 3D and 4D scanning in relation to the creation of shadow worlds at Siggraph 2012, Los Angeles, and their paper was published in a special edition of Leonardo (MIT Press). They further developed aspects of this practice as artists in residence at Creative Lab, Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Glasgow, 2012.
Additionally Brass Art collaborate with other practitioners, researchers and industries. Recent artistic collaborators include Professor Monty Adkins, Simon Patterson, Alison Mealey and Spencer Roberts. Pettican and Roberts installations have been shown at international festivals including the International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA) and Bank Art, Yokahama, Japan as part of the 2008 Biennial.
Brass Art employ traditional analogue and contemporary digital media, using and misusing them in search of the uncanny, to create artworks in which the artists are both present, and at the same time absent.
Brass Art capture themselves in real and imagined situations. They have occupied museum collections, been passengers in hot air balloon flights and acted as trespassers. In 2008 Anneké Pettican received an Arts & Humanities Research Council Practice-led and Applied award, that enabled Brass Art to research white light laser technology in order to scan themselves faithfully. The resulting portraits were staged, performed, digitised, modelled and printed in 3D to create ‘uncanny doubles’ which can be seen in a series of light based installations and sculptural interventions. This initial work resulted in Brass Art more recently researching and developing the potential for 4D facial scanning working with both Glasgow University and UCLAN.
Brass Art have recently initiated a new project titled Shadow Worlds | Writers’ Rooms. Beginning at the Brontë Parsonage Museum (2011), Brass Art captured the masking and unmasking of themselves and imagined alter egos within the domestic spaces. The project used both digital photography and custom built software, combined with Microsoft’s Kinect, to produce strikingly different versions of each scene. The installation of the work will be premiered at Huddersfield Art Gallery (2013) and will include a new sound commission produced in collaboration with a contemporary electroacoustic composer.
Pettican, A., Lewis, C. and Mojsiewicz, K. (2013) ‘The Creation of the Creative Voice’. In: Collaboration Through Craft. London: Bloomsbury. . ISBN 978-0857853929
Pettican, A., Mojsiewicz, K. and Lewis, C. (2012) ‘From Wunderkammern to Kinect: The Creation of 'Shadow Worlds'’ Leonardo , 45 (4), pp. 330-337. ISSN 0024-094X
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2012) Trine Messenger [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A. (2011) ‘Wonder and the digital double’. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on 3D Body Scanning Technologies. Lugano, Switzerland: Hometrica Consulting. pp. 185-196. ISBN 9783033031340
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2011) Still life No. 1 (Dark Matters: Shadow, Technology, Art) [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2011) The International 3 Film Screenings (Outpost Norwich) [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A. (2011) ‘Flash artists: Axel Lapp/Brass Art’. In: Corridor 8 Contemporary Visual Art & Writing Annual. Manchester, UK: Michael Butterworth. pp. 75-85. ISBN 9780955267239
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2010) Brass Art represented by the International 3 [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A. (2010) ‘Digital doubles’. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art. Ruhr, Germany: Revolver Publishing. pp. 343-345. ISBN 9783868951035
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2010) Inside Out Sculpture in the Digital Age [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A. (2010) ‘The Economy of the Gift ’ A Bulletin: The Economy of the Gift (5), pp. 23-24.
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2010) Inside the invisible [Show/Exhibition]
Pettican, A (2010) ‘Anatomical tableaux/mixed realms’ Radar , 1 (1), pp. 24-25. ISSN 2049-4327
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2010) The Myth of Origins [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A. (2010) ‘The messengers’. In: Inside Out: sculpture in the digital age. London, UK: Art & Design. . ISBN 9781857214093
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2010) Heart of glass [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2009) Brass Art Not at this Address [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2009) Commission Meadow Arts [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2009) Brass Art: Kiss of a lifetime [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2009) Brass Art: VOLTA 5 Represented by the International 3 [Show/Exhibition]
Roberts, S. and Pettican, A. (2009) ‘The Typewritten Gesture’. In: Research Festival, 23rd March - 2nd April 2009, University of Huddersfield, UK.
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2008) Jerwood Drawing Prize [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2008) Rotate [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A. (2008) Skyscraping . Wakefield, UK: Yorkshire Sculpture Park . ISBN 1871480655
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2008) Art futures [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2008) Skyscraping [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A. (2008) ‘Brass Art: in Jerwood Drawing Prize 2008’. In: Jerwood Drawing Prize 2008 Catalogue. London, UK: The Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts, London. pp. 24-27. ISBN 9780955554670
Pettican, A. and Roberts, S.(2008) Rhetorical Line [Show/Exhibition]
Pettican, A. and Roberts, S.(2008) Tie Me in A Dream [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K., Pettican, A., Brake, J., Collins, J., Butler, R., Birkbeck, E., Duffy, J. and Lennon, R.(2007) Outside of parallel [Show/Exhibition]
Roberts, S. and Pettican, A. (2007) ‘Newsdrip – An (A)Political Flow’. In: Architecture in the Space of Flows , 21st - 24th June 2007, University of Newcastle, UK
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2007) Here and Elsewhere [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2006) Outside of Parallel [Show/Exhibition]
Pettican, A. and Roberts, S. (2006) Reasonable Doubt [Video]
Pettican, A. and Roberts, S.(2006) Newsdrip [Phase four]. (Unpublished).
Pettican, A. and Roberts, S.(2006) INCH, Rhetorical Line, Mine. (Submitted).
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2006) Zoo Art Fair 2006 [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2006) Beside Ourselves [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2005) Text Festival [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A. (2005) From the tower falls the shadow [Artefact]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2005) 2LIVE [Show/Exhibition]
Pettican, A. and Roberts, S.(2003) A Hidden Spectacle [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2003) Trespass [NY] 2003 [Show/Exhibition]
Lewis, C., Mojsiewicz, K. and Pettican, A.(2003) Trespass [Show/Exhibition]
Pettican, A. and Roberts, S.(2003) Chorus [Show/Exhibition]
Pettican, A (2002) The trespass of her gesture [Show/Exhibition]
Pettican, A. and Roberts, S.(2000) Look East, Look West [Show/Exhibition]
Select Reviews of recent exhibitions:
2012: Tatton Park Biennial 2012 review - David Trigg - Frieze - issue 149
Tatton Park Biennial 2012 review - Jeremy Hunt - Art and Architecture Journal Press - 16 May
2011: Dark Matters http://www.corridor8.co.uk/blog/shadowing-dark-matters
Dark Matters http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/08/art-technological-illusion
2010: Concrete and Glass, The Guardian Guide - 8 May
InsideOut Australian Design Review - 19 May
InsideOut Design Federation - Australia - Klaus Kinski - 7 June
InsideOut Curve magazine - Australia - Aug/Sept Issue
The Economy of the Gift review - Richard Unwin - Frieze - 26 April
Brass Art have received financial support from the Association of Art Historians, Friends of Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Arts Council England.
Brass Art has been commissioned by Parabolla, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Meadow Arts and The National Trust.
Brass Art’s work is held in a number of public and private collections including the Arts Council England and the Government Art Collection.
Brass Art are invited members of the Contemporary Art Society and in 2010 were shortlisted for a major commission by CAS alongside Richard Wentworth, Tim Knowles and David Batchelor.
The intersection of art and digital media in relation to the uncanny.
Brass Art have worked with:
Rapid Form RCA
Ogle Models Ltd.
Anneké Pettican is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Technologies, and Course Leader of Animation, Motion Graphics and Multimedia Design. Her students have won a number of acclaimed international awards including Best of New Blood, In Book Nominations and a Yellow Pencil at D&AD.
