Debby Akam
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Debby Akam uses video, collage and woodcut prints to engage with particular places and spaces. She is working on an on- going series of artworks, mostly made in and around her home, that articulate the metaphor of the ‘permeable home’ as a useful vehicle for re- imagining our place at home in the world. Works on paper explore similar territory, within the traditions of Painting and Printmaking. New paintings and woodcuts are characterised by saturated colour, and overlaid slabs of decorative patterning occurring within a shallow space. They draw on organic and vernacular forms, and represent an impulse to make something uses primary forms and natural materials: wood and hand- made paper. Print and video both allow the possibility of repeating sequences in endless variations, allowing for serendipity and chance. Debby occasionally runs print making workshops for up to 4 participants. The studio is open for visits throughout the year by appointment.
Selected Solo Installations
2017 C-art Festival: art in extraordinary places, collaboration with Gary Power, Phoebe Power, Michael Hedges
2006 FRED, Greenbelt. Video Installation, B+Q Penrith
2004 FRED Moon, Video installation, Bluebell Bookshop, Penrith
2003 Sewborwens Farm, Cumbria, Herd. Video installation
2003 Skipton, North Yorkshire, Exchange. Video installation
Group Exhibitions
2017 'Visualising the Home', Vallum Gallery, Carlisle
2017 Printfest Ulverston
2016 Cumbrian Artist of the Year, Rheged
2015 The Great Print Exhibition, Rheged
2015 Printfest Ulverston
2014 C-art at Rheged, Cumbria, painting
2014 Northern Print Biennale, ‘Print Points North’, Washington Arts Centre
Conference papers
2017 Permeable home: Re- imagining home after the flood: Visualising the Home, University of Cumbria 2017
2004 Folly Lancaster, conference paper: New Media Art and the Rural
Environment
2005 Artist’s presentation at New Fields: Art and Agriculture
Conference, Littoral, Leeds
2005 Artist’s presentation at Out Of The Box Into The Landscape,
CLEAR, Cumbria Institute of the Arts
Major awards
2000 FUSE bursary from the Compassion in World Farming Trust and Littoral
2003 Arts Council of England
2005 Arts Council of England
Qualifications and training
2004 - PhD, University of Sunderland
1989 - MFA, Northumbria University
1981 - MA, Fine Art, Edinburgh University