Watts Gallery Partnership Commission

Watts Gallery Partnership Commission

The 2023 Watts Gallery Partnership Commission has been awarded to Drucilla Burrell.

This project is part of the Here We Are programme, made possible thanks to funding from Arts Council England.

About The Commission

During the DAiSY residency, Watts Gallery will be exhibiting a collection of Sir Brian May’s archive of Stereoscopy in their Victorian Virtual Reality exhibition. Drucilla will be responding to the exhibition and working with mentor Andy Lomas on experimenting with new digital techniques.

The residency includes free entry as well as two weeks at Watts Gallery’s fully accessible Artist Studio and support from curatorial staff.

About Watts Gallery

Founded in 1904 as the only gallery in the UK devoted to a single artist, Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village offers a unique insight into the life and work of ‘England’s Michelangelo’ George Frederic Watts and the designer and artist Mary Watts.

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Commission Artist:

Drucilla Burrell

Drucilla Burrell is a photographer and Creative Director. Her photographic practice is rooted in the study of traditional Classical techniques and their implementation and dissemination via digital technology. Through Queering and digitising, her work challenges the hierarchies and displays of power embedded in this form of recording and memorialising. It queries the narratives inherent in the display and creation of art, and interrogates the currency of analog art forms in an algorithmic digital future.

Drucilla Burrell

ANALYTICAL, CREATIVE AND CONCEPTUAL THINKER WHO BELIEVES CREATIVITY AND PLAY ARE FUNDAMENTAL TO DRIVING CHANGE AND CULTURAL GROWTH.

Commission Mentor:

Andy Lomas

Andy Lomas is a computational artist, mathematician and Emmy award winning supervisor of computer generated effects. His art work explores how complex sculptural forms can be created emergently by simulating growth processes. Inspired by the work of Alan Turing, D’Arcy Thompson and Ernst Haeckel, it exists at the boundary between art and science.

He is currently based in London, developing his art practice as well as working as a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London.