Curating the Breathe Project

I'm so delighted to be working with George Mogg on the Breathe Project, her rigorous curation skills optimise the potential for the work to engage with viewers whatever the available space and so make the planning for an exhibition invigorating and enjoyable. With a small window in which to make new work and plan for its display we met yesterday with Annabelle Bond from the Royal Brompton to start making broad plans for the exhibition in September.

George Mogg installing Index by Jayne Wilton for Surge at Plymouth College of Art

George Mogg, Project Curator for Breathe said about the project:

I’m very excited to have my first project meeting with Jayne Wilton today for our new adventure: Breathe at the Royal Brompton. Having worked together since 2007 this will be our 8^th project.  As a curator, it’s been great to work with Jayne on so many collaborations over the last 7 years, presenting her work to the public in a variety of contexts.  Her work ticks all my curatorial boxes- ephemeral, conceptual and sophisticated.  The Sci-Arts element of her practice is fascinating and means that I’m learning intriguing details about the body and the breath all the time.  I think my favorite aspect of her work is her growing body of etched copper plates.  Each one immortalises a spent breath by using the etching process as a way to make permanent the trace of an exhalation.  I’m always surprised by the never ending variety in the shapes and colours produced by this process - and excited by it as an alternative to traditional portraiture.