Bob Levene is an artist based in Sheffield. Her work adopts pseudo-scientific strategies and anthropological methods of recording to analyse the 'nature' of things, exploring the scientific and artistic approaches to making sense of the world. The work manifests as recorded sound & video, performance, installation, drawing, photography and sculpture.

 

Since graduating from an Msc in Electronic Imaging and Duncan of Jordanstone in 2001 Bob has performed and screened work at ICA (London), Arnolfini (Bristol) and BBC Radio 3 Cut & Splice Festival  (London) and exhibited at Kiasma (Helsinki), Cornerhouse (Manchester), FA Projects (London). In 2003 she spent 5 months in Colima, Mexico as part of an Arts Council Fellowship, in 2006 she was awarded an Artsadmin Mid-Career Bursary and in 2009 she was nomination for the Northern Art Prize. In 2008 she was artist in residence at Yorkshire Sculpture Park where amongst other things worked with a surveyor from Ordnance Survey to create a new map of the park.

 

Between 2004 and 2006 Bob was a co-founded and directed of Hull Art Lab, presenting a programme of interdisciplinary work from over 60 artists in a warehouse in the old fruit market area. She has collaborated with Rob Gawthrop under the name Automated Noise Ensemble making sound based performances and installations for over 10 years.


“Bob Levene is an artist who embraces the conclusive, ongoing and unpredictable. Her work resounds with a poetic sensibility that defies categorisation, but with a focus on the nature of perception and sound. Adopting pseudo-scientific strategies and anthropological methods of recording to analyse the ‘nature’ of things, she investigates time, distance and communication. In her efforts with limited resources and limited tools, she uncovers with wit and guile-free sincerity a finely balanced poetics of perception that takes us beyond the ‘truth’ of things into the realm of the absurd”. Roger McKinley, Corridor8 Magazine, 2009

 

Bob is has a studio at Yorkshire Art Space, Sheffield. For her commercial projects as an art documentation photographer go to IN TWO DIMENSIONS.


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