Claire Zakiewicz performing painting, 2023, London (photographer Chris Freeman)
From August 30 – September 3, 2023 Zakiewicz will stage a compelling re-imagining of the story of Boudicca, her daughters and their fight for justice in the local Aldeburgh area two thousand years ago.
Lookout viewable from:
Thursday Aug 31 – Sun Sept 3, 2023
Performance of Boudicca’s Daughters:
Friday September 1, 7-8 pm
Video Projections:
Thursday 8pm – 10pm
Friday 8pm – 10pm
Saturday 8pm – 10pm
Recipe tasting: Saturday Noon – 4pm
Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, Suffolk, UK
Zakiewicz will invite local women to sit for her, asking them to discuss some (or all) of the below themes, which have been selected for their strong resonance with the story of Boudicca:
Generation
Inheritance
Motherhood
Daughters
Death
This participatory approach to creating art is new for Zakiewicz, who until earlier this year, focused on large-scale performance paintings. Portraiture has become a new line of artistic enquiry and the Lookout residency will provide the opportunity to explore this in a unique and collaborative way.
Incorporating gestural mark making and the process of automatic drawing, Zakiewicz will also create a large-scale performance painting, which embodies the theme of the flow of time, drawing on the sketches Zakiewicz produced in her first residency at Aldeburgh in 2019. Similar to her performance Tinteretto’s Daughter, which used the Jungian process of Active Imagination, Zakiewicz will converse with Boudicca and her daughters whilst painting blindfolded to create a powerful and transformative installation and series of events. Her dialogues with local women whilst painting their (oil) portraits will be key to this new body of work and how she contextualises Boudicca and her daughters.
The project will also feature a cooking demonstration of Zakiewicz’s recipe from the Lookout Cookout cookbook, Strawberry Surprise Mess.
Just like good art, good food can be simple and comes from knowledge, practice, imagination and love. 39 artists (including Chris Orr RA and Maggi Hambling) who have participated in the Lookout Residency share their recipes and their art in the cookbook, LOOKOUT COOKOUT, which is available here.
More details of the live performances and recipe tastings to be confirmed this week on Creatrix Magazine’s instagram page.
