Ainsley is an artist working in video, performance and sound. Ainsley makes videos which are both intensely silly and dead serious, at turns laugh out loud funny and positively disquieting. Born in Devon and trained in London – at Chelsea art college, she was also influenced by many years working in care environments, her work embraces a love of vulnerable, intimate connection with
Ainsley is an artist working in video, performance and sound. Ainsley makes videos which are both intensely silly and dead serious, at turns laugh out loud funny and positively disquieting. Born in Devon and trained in London – at Chelsea art college, she was also influenced by many years working in care environments, her work embraces a love of vulnerable, intimate connection with strangers, and the painful, dark humour found in adversity. Working collaboratively with musician John Phillips, she produces objects to form costumes for performance to camera, playfully seeking to meld art and music both as practices and as approaches to making.
Emma Ainsley
1969
Born in Exeter, Devon, UK.
Currently lives and works in Fife, Scotland.
Contact details
23 Hilton View
Lumphinnans
Fife
KY4 9HZ
01383 510737
07534283808
[email protected]
https://ainsleyphillipsprojects.com
Selected performances, exhibitions and projects
2020
• Developed and launched a jamming kit to empower care staff to get jams happening in the care home themselves
• Delivered eight co-creative art/music sessions in care homes in Fife and Dundee
• Delivered six weekly open studio sessions in Lochgelly, Fife, exploring audio-visual jamming alongside people living with dementia in the community and their carers
2019
• Delivered a project in a Dundee care home and day centre to co-create a CD
2018-20
• Delivered a series of participatory music groups alongside people living with dementia in 16 care homes in Fife and Dundee
2018
• Delivered a project in two Dundee care homes to co-create a video soundscape
• Screening of Harmonious Place, video, onto Forth Valley Hospital, Larbert
2017
• Anatomy 15, Summerhall, Edinburgh, Cellulitory Investigations, performance
• 'Locality', group show at DOK, Edinburgh incl The Jazz Suit, performance
• The Jazz Suit, Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland - performance
• Bugle Calls for the Twenty First Century, Aberdour, Scotland – performance
2016
• Released 4 music tracks with videos – digital release
• Beastly screened at Hackney Empire upstairs, artists film night
2015
• The Jazz Suit, Orkney, Scotland - performance
2014
Work screened at:
• Beacons Arts Festival
• Art Village, Shawlands Arcade, Glasgow
• Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Winter Open
2013- current
• Formed a collaborative practice to explore the art/music interface
2007-08
• Set-up and ran a community arts space in Stromness, Orkney
Awards
2020
• Creative Scotland project funding for an audio-visual co-creative care home project
2019
• Creative Scotland project funding for a participatory community project
• Creative Scotland project funding for a co-creative care home project
2018
• Scot Rail Foundation project funding for a care home co-creative CD project
2013
• Hi Arts (Creative Scotland) funding to exhibit.
2006
• Scottish Arts Council Award to produce new work.
Education
2013
Post Graduate Diploma (with distinction) Interpretation Management and Practice University of the Highlands & Islands
1998
BA (Hons) Fine Art, 2:1 – Chelsea College of Art and Design