Cardiff SPOTtimespotTIME Walkabout 19th April 2019 was a wonderful day. The panel isn’t quite finished ( like B’ham ) as I have to visit the Welsh Assembly in the foreseeable...( Date to be confirmed) .I shall post pics on Tuesday after the Easter Weekend. Here is a couple...near the beginning.
Eanas says ‘ This reminds me of the first time we had an election in my country after the revolution in 2011’ Libya 🇱🇾
Thank you Naomi Ackie for your support of the nationwide artwork #SPOTtimespotTIME #fingerprintofunity #art.
Your smile is amazing 🙂 #unity #art #artist #arts #creativearts #actor #talent #naomiackie #elainerobinsonartist
Cannot believe how long ago this was. So pleased it displays permanently now in the heart of London’s West End in the Westminster Reference Library.
Thank you BBC Wales for the enthusiasm regarding Cardiff SPOTtimespotTIME.- Friday April 19th Cardiff.
Link to follow soon... 🙂
Cardiff Panel - ready for tomorrow morning’s first fingerprint. #fingerprintofunity
grace within truth within grace
Reminds me of this (a purely mathematical shape) images.app.goo.gl/JYyUbaefpheWfSWU6
Cardiff City SPOTtimespotTIME walkabout tomorrow 19th April 2019 #fingerprintofunity
Artist Elaine Robinson will be walking across the city asking people for their fingerprints as part of a nationwide fingerprint artwork. The ambitious project began in Bristol in 2015 has slowly been building a public momentum. In January 2019 Elaine was the ‘Artist in Residence’ at the HOC during the time of the first meaningful vote - names such as Keir Starmer, The Speaker, Hilary Benn, Lord Tebbit, Caroline Lucas and Thangam Debbonaire ( to name only a few) added their fingerprints to Parliament SPOTtimespotTIME. Elaine asks people to think about identity, privacy and their own DNA. What is it that makes us unique ? The project is unifying and all the fingerprints side by side show only how similar we all are as well as celebrating how unique we are. Elaine will begin walking at 9am from Tremorfa ..walking into the city centre onto Cyncoed. It is hoped next month Elaine will also be visiting the Welsh Assembly ( date to be confirmed) #fingerprintofunity #art #elainerobinsonartist #elainerobinsonart #SPOTtimespotTIME #BIGISSUE #Theguardian #bbcnews #walestoday #bbcwales #Parlaiment #breakfastnews #Cardiff #city #unifying #united #brexitart #capturecardiff
Cardiff SPOTtimespotTIME walkabout Friday 19th April 2019. Walk starts at 9am. Colours Red and Green.
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Tremorfa Adult Training Centre to Cyncoed
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Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.Walking in Leigh Woods and along the Avon today and saw the wonderful Surfers Against Sewage with volunteers collecting plastic and rubbish. Thank you 🙏 for protecting and caring about wildlife and the environment. Will definitely get involved next time.
Betrayal End To Begin.
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VIOLIN FEET #duetphilharmonicorchestra #duetphilharmonic #festivalhall #music #mahler #gustavmahler #southbankcentre #southbanklondon #southbank #shoes #musicalsocks #feettapping #rhythmicfeet #1stviolinsection #violin #violinist #violinfeet #philharmonic #elainerobinsonartist
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Elaine Robinson Art on Twitter
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“Global Panel for SPOTtimespotTIME will be launched w/c 22nd April #Earthday #fingerprintofunity News will follow regarding contributors - It will be launched by Alice Bertucci visiting from #Brazil @ELCBristol #international #europeanparliament #ukparliament #europe #3million”
Ssshhh What about European Parliament 😉 More news soon .....la la la la la la
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Leonardo Da Vinci's inky fingerprint is revealed on a drawing
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UK art experts are hailing an inky thumbprint on one of his anatomical drawings (pictured) as the clearest ever example of a da Vinci fingerprint, and say it helps us to understand him as a ‘jobbing artist’.
On the 9th May Julian Lloyd Webber will be another well known figure to add his fingerprint to the emerging nationwide artwork SPOTtimespotTIME. Already supported by Baron Melvyn Bragg, Sebastian Coe, Hilary Benn MP, Thangam Debbonaire MP and other MP’s, Lords and people in the HOC’s. The fingerprints sit alongside each other equally - Other well known names will be released as the tour collecting fingerprints continues around the UK. #fingerprintofunity
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Thanks Sarah Hendy for mentioning me your blog as well as the radio interview. Thank you 🙂
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On #MRSpotlight this week, an exciting opportunity for visual artists and a collaborative art project for turbulent times.Just loved this sculpture ‘figurehead’ by Rick Kirby.
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SPOTtimespotTIME #fingerprintofunity emerging nationwide artwork began in Bristol in 2015Panels : Bristol( 2015), Liverpool( 2016),Sheffield(2016)
Cambridge(2017), Newcastle( 2018)
House of Commons -During the 1st Meaningful Vote (2019)
Birmingham (2019)
Future dates : Cardiff ( April 2019)
Belfast ( 17th & 18th May )
London ( June 2019)
Edinburgh ( July 2019)
Brighton ( August 2019)
Glasgow ( September 2019)
Oxford ( October 2019)
Manchester ( February 2020)
Leeds ( March 2020)
Other city dates will be released at the end of the year.
I shall also be working alongside outreach over the next year.
The work ask how we feel when we are asked for our fingerprint and also explores privacy and identity.
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MPs make their mark for Brexit art
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An artist spends a fortnight in the House of Commons collecting fingerprints for her Brexit artwork.twitter.com/elainerartist/status/1111523914780495873?s=12
Elaine Robinson Art on Twitter
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“We are more than Brexit. #fingerprintofunity #HOPE SPOTtimespotTIME talks about the reality of the UK. Each fingerprint is a conversation and a desire to be heard. .#Grassroots #Homelessness #Housing #Extremism #Fear #austerity Pics -4 city panels of many UK panels #bigissue”
Parliament Panel of the nationwide artwork SPOTtimespotTIME. Had hoped to have JOY DIVISION ‘ Transmission’ - but I think it breaches copyright. In many ways more appropriate at the moment that the video is silent. The country is having trouble transmitting any kind of message or opinion. #joydivision joydivision #joydivisionforever anything. #nationwide #communication #countryspeaking #now #hello #pleaselisten #elainerobinsonartist #elainerobinsonart #joy #division #ancestry #time #voices #message#brexit #guardian #fingerprintofunity #honestvotes #honestvoice #nationwideartwork #
Thank you Robin Markwell at TV’s Sunday Politics South West for the exposure and mentioning the emerging UK artwork SPOTtimespotTIME Parliament Panel. It was an honour to mentioned alongside Bristol photographer Martin Parr who is exhibiting in London at the National Portrait Gallery. Clip 23 mins in ....
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0003q4f/sunday-politics-west-24032019
Sunday Politics West - 24/03/2019
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David Garmston with the latest political news, interviews and debate.Beautiful music legacy. Thank you Scott Walker.
youtu.be/4H-MCEncNZAScott Walker gives a rare interview to the BBC Culture Show to discuss 'The Drift'. Originally broadcast 30th March 2006.
Barber Institute of Fine Arts. What a stunning gallery. Manet, Van Gogh, Rodin, Rossetti, Gauguin, Brueghel, Auergbach,Renoir, Degas,Monet,Matisse,Courbet, Toulouse-Lautrec,Whistler,Baronzio, Hodgkin and Elizabeth Vegee Lebrun. Thank you Simon for the all the info and enthusiasm at the gallery. 🙂
Well done Jo Prince at Rainmaker Gallery 🙂 Another wonderful exhibition x Strong, powerful and utterly stunning !First day of spring and of our new exhibition The Young Americans. #spring2019 #theyoungamericans #rainmakergallery #nativeamerican #nativeartist #Bristol #mikaylapatton #jordancraig #kalispitzer #willwilsonphotography
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Thanks Elaine x
Thank you!
Remembering my Aunty Elsie. A strong, loyal woman- devoted mum, and an amazing Nan. As a child she brought ‘ Cheese on toast’ , Elvis and always seemed cool listening to Radio 1:) Sending all love to her amazing daughters and family. This is her painting - painted for her some years ago. ‘ balance of time’ 💛
Wow I thought that was one of yours at first glance. An early influence?
Amazing Thangam Debbonaire : Proud to be part of the journey 🙏
www.debbonaire.co.uk/my-work-on-brexit/
Tantamount
..However, not the same as!
Virtually the same, nearly - maybe?
Barren ground to stand,
Malleable feeling,
Floundering surreal heart.
How careless the deposit of your trust,
How shameful the reaction of your love,
How hopeful the neglectfulness of your time.
And now the future will be the present,
Will you have learnt regret ?
Smiling loveliness - I’ll dance some more with trust.
Elaine Robinson March 2019
Clearing
It just is,
A slow, quiet,still rolling breath.
A moment without a memory of betrayal.
Walking confidently towards a familiar light,
A memory of me,
Remembering there is so much more to be.
Accepting more, feeling so free.
Elaine Robinson, March 2019
Magnolia woman in the moonlight.
Celebrate the noble ,
Standing tall to say,
Feminine joy.
Beauty and strength.
Pure in truth.
Pink,white and yellow light.
Magnolia.
Elaine Robinson March 2019
This is such a powerful production..for those people who live in the Bristol area, please don’t miss ! A cracking Tennessee Williams play ...Outstanding performances 🧡Some absolutely cracking images by Craig Fuller Photography.
The pillow image is my absolute favourite and a very powerful image!
Come see us all this week for only £13 Alma Tavern & Theatre 8pm.
What does pain teach us ? How do we grow instead of hanging in limbo - insular, bitter and frozen? This poem is a human feeling commenting on the disregard and respectful journey we make with each other.
I Ate Compassion.
Incredible blustering sanctimonious pious stance.
A delicious decorous beaded dress, Twirling round our ankles as we rotate a dance in life.
Frozen steps and hankering desire, Devouring trust and steps of joy.
A maiden voyage starts to see port,
Holding tight, dear time,
Rocking backwards and forwards.
Journeyman take a heart and promises not to stay.
Greet the day,
Dance and grow some wings to fly away.
Pain plundering to invert and plan a twist to start to say,
‘ It’s all the same journeyman, we can smile our joy and light your heavy soul, but first let us find compassionate wings’
Elaine Robinson March 2019
Betrayal End To Begin
Whirls round,
No sound,
It hurts so much when it’s howling.
It sits inside your stomach,
Staunch like ‘a stiff upper lip’ ...
It pinches too,
Like an ill fitting clip, or equally, an unruly blood sucking zip.
Blanket betrayal without any warmth,
Is a churning emotion to wear.
The flames raw,
Invisible fumes,
Loiter passively.
Memories are tarnished,
Doubling doubt,
Once politely unseen.
An energy,
It sticks like glue,
Until you learn to undo.
To be you.
Elaine Robinson 2019
World Book Day 🙂 Turning ‘ages ( 2012- LIGAR I) was made to celebrate the relationship we have with the written word memories and the book. Presently on permanent exhibition at the Westminster Reference Library, this art work documents memories, ancestry and our relationship with libraries and books.
Phil Gibby Area Director, South West, Arts Council England, said: “We’re really pleased to be supporting the tour of this thoughtful exhibition that explores our relationship with books and libraries through our National Lottery funded Grants for the arts scheme. Public libraries are trusted spaces, free to enter and open to all. In them, people can explore and share reading, information, knowledge and culture. And libraries play a broad role in their communities. It’s great to see that the exhibition has found a home in London’s West End where it can be shared on a more national platform.” ( Quote 2016 after it had finished a nationwide tour of city libraries )
I simply cannot believe this - Thank you Lord Bird 🙂 You’re a star in every sense of the word. X
Great support really has momentum
Thank you Jo - Great start to the day on Saturday 🙂 ( 7.15 am )
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BBC WM 95.6 - Mollie Green, Joanna Tidman sits in (02/03/2019)
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Joanna Tidman sits in. Start your weekend the best way, with music, news and weather.Wonderful : 2nd National coverage 🙂 Thank you BIG ISSUE 🙂
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Why an artist is travelling the UK collecting people's fingerprints
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Elaine Robinson has even inspired politicians to put their finger to paper after her art piece took her to parliament on the date of the first Brexit meaningful voteBirmingham 🙂 What a day:) Acocks Green, Yardley, Small Heath, Bordsley Green, Coventry Rd and the City Centre. So much opinion, discussion, warmth,
hope and a general welcome. I ran out of time and will have to visit again to collect Julian Lloyd Webber’s print, more prints in the City Centre and then onto Harborne.
#fingerprintofunity SPOTtimespotTIME was greatly received and everyone really wanted say how they felt about unity, identity and digital emergence. I thoroughly enjoyed my day and here are just a few of the pics I managed to seek authorisation to take. Two striking altered responses were that initially there were more prints put on the edge of the circles and outside and then finally within. Also, authorisations for pictures was not generally received well. A lot of women were more keen to have their pics taken and a large majority of men refused. It was said SO many times that if I had filmed, or used an interview recording devise they would have walked straight past me. Their fingerprint was their voice of unity. Everyone embraced the unity and opportunity to be part of a larger comment. A great uplifting day...Panel still not finished.
Lovely photos and a great sense of community Elaine
Blank Birmingham Panel ready for SPOTtimespotTIME #fingerprintofunity City walkabout. Thank you to Jess Phillips MP and Julian Lloyd Webber for supporting the Birmingham Panel and also the continued support of the wonderful Lord Bird ( Big Issue Founder) BIG ISSUE - editorial to follow.
