Dr Su Fahy & Patricia Brien

Affiliation:
Dr Su Fahy. CREAM Alumna University of Westminster

Patricia Brien. University of Bath Spa

Dr Su Fahy 

Su Fahy is an artist working in lens – based media, drawing, and sculpture, Fahy’s research utilises the aura of the documentary photographic image to interrogate and contextualise our readings of natural or architectural environments. Working principally to commission, Fahy engages with theorists, photographers and archive materials producing images for collaborative publication or exhibition. Recent projects Drawing on Dorset (2019 - 2021), with Outmoded Rituals a text/image installation exhibited at Severn Worlding (2022) and Postcards for Perec a touring show curated by Linda Parr for World Book Night United Artists Collective in 2023-2025, and the curation of the homage show, Woman Magic: Celebrating the Goddess within us 2025 at Centrespace Gallery in Bristol, UK. in association with University of Bristol Special Collections. 

Member of the Monica Sjoo Curatorial Collective www.monicasjoocuratorial.com 

Insta-Projects @monica_sjoo 

Patricia Brien 

Patricia Brien is a UK-based curator, artist and researcher. She is the creative director and curator of Two Bedford Street - Cacao House Stroud. Her work focuses around mythology, esoteric knowledge, ecofeminist and creative approaches and practices for ecological and social justice. She is currently a Lecturer at Bath Spa University in Critical Design Thinking. 

patriciabrien.com 

Instagram @patricia_brien 

Title of Work: Performing the Spiral Ritual : an inclusive gathering by Patricia Brien & Su Fahy

The performance is a homage to the artist Jill Smith who regards her performances as actions, that have a depth of spiritual reality for her and are often despite this term, still and silent contemplations. Contemplation as a thematic within the physical installation of the spiral enables curated moments of stillness and a temporality of being, for both herself and invited participants. Walking into the spiral celebrating the lineage and lore of its makers.

Reading these as an instinctive response to the forces of the people making it, they offer insight into the creation of the truly magickal, discernible through the disciplines of both science and archaeology. Drawing and mapping, pausing for stillness, naming a truth and taking one small aligned action, you build a foundation for lasting change. The work is based on ‘instructions drawings’ for another person to execute. The methodology gained prominence in the 1960s during the Fluxus Movement, and artists like Sol Lewitt and Yoko Ono prioritising the idea and process over the final object. The beauty being that the instructions can be interpreted in various ways making each execution or performance in this instance unique. 

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