C&C residency presents: Elbow [group exhibition]

Exhibition stemming from a residency at C&C Gallery, London for the duration of August. Ian Dawson is the lead artist and will work collaboratively with a series of five invited artists (John Greenwood, Claude Heath, Nicola Thomas, Louisa Minkin, Jenny Dunseath) and two applicants from the open call. The Elbow, the part of the human body that a blind or partially sighted person takes hold of, four fingers on the inside, thumb on the outside; holding with a firm grip to assist them with navigation. It is a common guiding technique linking two people into an unfamiliar choreography. This summer C&C Gallery hosted an innovative residency programme, transforming the gallery space into a dynamic studio environment in order to respond to ideas surrounding the condition of blindness. During this time eight artists variously came and went, engaging with a whole repertoire of processes, from casting to laser scanning, leaving a variety of traces of their activities. Much of the work, arrived at through a collaborative approach has sought to obliquely cast a shadow across the subject, remaining open towards the process of making, and the work remains in a state of uncertainty even at the time of writing.