Jeannie Driver works on innovative and challenging projects that directly engage with audiences, creating interventions and interactions where audience are renegotiated to participants or collaborators of the work. Projects collectively explore common situations and experiences. Works relate to peoples relationships to public space, private space, community space, architecture and issues. Works present open doors to new thoughts and experiences.
This socially engaged practice spans a range of media and methodology including: discussion, workshop, text, photography, print, digital image, installation, data and events.
Jeannie’s practice evolves through a mix of artist led projects, collaborations and commissions. Her portfolio career involves working in a variety of genres including public art projects, galleries, local government partnerships, regeneration projects, youth arts, arts and health.
Working from different artist positions including: author, motivator, activist, documenter, collaborator and facilitator Jeannie examines the role of the artist, and questions traditional boundaries between artist and audience. Projects involve audience at the stage of production:
Residency revealed 10/05 – 6/06
Process based residency in healthy living and community centre.
work included ‘Here to there’ pedometer project. Explorations into understandings of health and wellbeing- Evidence room.
Walk in my footsteps Completed September 2006
Public art project. Factory Road, Eastleigh
Lead artist. Stainless steel lamppost banners. paving slabs.
Woodland Pallete February 2005
Public Art Project: subway artwork: 47metres of digital print laminated under polycarbonate.
What's going on? 7/2004
A commissioned hoarding project fabricated from vinyl and installed around the new Healthy Living Centre in Portsea.
The colour happened on the inside 2004
Public Art Hoarding project. A Site specific socially interactive work. The Artwork was installed over 70 metres of the hoarding surrounding the Tricorn building.
‘Celebrating school’ - Hartplain Junior School 2003
External digital print on aluminum.
Youth Billboard Project 2002
Vinyl billboard: artist initiated project working with young people.
National Domestic 1998
installation. Mass image collection -participatory project
We all make our mark 1996
installation and womens’ performance: film, canvas, paint, cleaning materials.
Exhibitions
Residency revealed Installation John Pounds Centre 2006
Notation Homemade. Group Exhibition at Aspex Gallery 2002
Fridge Group Exhibition at Brighton Media Centre 2002
mod>con>notation installation ether gallery 2000
no send Letters Havant Art open 1999
ex MA show 1999
column and shelf installation ether gallery. 1998
Sue’s work Installation Portsmouth University Degree show 1996
Residencies in Schools
John Pounds Centre 10/05-6/06
AA2A Portsmouth University 10/04-5/05
Woodlands Education Centre 2001 – 2003
Lyndhurst Grant Maintained School 1998
Freelance Workshops
Ror local Authority: Corporate Initiatives, Education, Social Services, Health, Youth Services. Gallery Education
Freelance
Portsmouth Millennium PA Strategy 1998 Assisting Peter Dunn, Art of Change.
Portsmouth 2020 1998 - Creative Consultation events commissioned by Corporative Initiatives in 1997
Employment
Dot to Dot arts Lead Artist. Oct 1999 – Oct 2002
Education
Portsmouth University:
1999 MA by Project- distinction
1996 BA (Hons), Visual Art 1st Class
Conferences
Design History Society annual conference 2004. University of Ulster “Brute Ugly: marmite and memory” Paper by Valerie Swales and Jeannie Driver. Tricorn Hoarding Project.
‘Eight’ cultivating creativity. Artswork May 2004.
Media
Taiwan Architect 2006/07 no. 379
Art House Channel 4 26/4/04- Tricorn hoarding project featured
The Guide, The Guardian, Home Made
Pave magazine 4/2005-
The News (Local)- The Tricorn Project, Portsea projects, Homemade, Ether, Celebrating School.
Other Information
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