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Neal & Tina
Tina O'Connell and Neal White are situated in London. Over the last 15 years, they have increasingly integrated their independent practices around shared concerns that are also generative of new collaborative ideas. They have worked with environmental challenges and art forms as meaning-making, often as a response to encounters with institutional, scientific, social, cultural and ecological borders.
In 2022, the artists were residence in Nieuw en Meer whilst co-curating the exhibition Perfect Nature with zone2source based in Amstelpark, the location of a three-month "Test Site" residency. The investigations they undertook highlighted art's role as an eco-social practice that requires forms which respect futures orientated toward cohabitation and coexistence with other species. They have since gradually shifted their gaze towards a form of artist led symbiotic activism. In June 2024, they present aspects of this ongoing research in an artist presentation 'Sensational Nocturnal Ecologies' at The World Biodiversity Forum and plan to continue their work on their return to Nieuw en Meer.
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Tina O'Connell is an Irish artist and graduate of Chelsea College, who has exhibited Internationally including solo commissions and collaborative exhibitions, including; PS1 – MOMA, New York, Jerwood Gallery – London, College des Irelandais, Paris, 1×1, Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington DC, TULCA, Galway, In Dublin, Dublin, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium and Fargfabriken / R1 Bunker, Stockholm, amongst others. Her work has examined the nature of permanence, stability, and materials associated with public sculpture, working with a range of non-sculptural materials, from bitumen to light. Her investigations and material inquiry remain grounded in key themes of deconstruction, temporal decay, and, of late, anthropogenic noise. She is also an Associate Professor in Fine Art at the University of Reading.
Neal White is an artist whose experiments, fieldwork, and practice use a range of digital/traditional visual media. In his work with performance, digital installation, and imaging, he has explored subjects ranging from self-experimentation to secrecy, creating epistemic things and experimental institutions, shaped by conceptual inquiries that explore our contemporary relationship to converging landscapes of nature, science, and technology. White has an international exhibition record, including solo and collaborative projects at Amstelpark, Amsterdam, Venice Biennale of Architecture, Kunsthalle Trondheim, Royal College of Art, Portikus, Frankfurt, and Henry Moore Institute, amongst others. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Art / Science at University of Westminster, where he is also a director of CREAM (cream.ac.uk). He works with Ecological Futurisms collective at CREAM and also co convenes the international collective, The Soil Assembly, featured recently at Kochi Muziris Biennale, 2023.
