Category: Projects
For me, for her, for you is a 7 track audio artwork made in collaboration with sound artist Neil Rose, commissioned by The National Trust..
Jamboree is an ongoing artist-led project initiated by LOW PROFILE brining together artists & curators to help foster a geographically dispersed, national network of artists and curators..
During Plymouth Art Weekender 2017, LOW PROFILE sold ‘LOCAL’ badges via a network of specially recruited artists who were each ‘local’ to Plymouth (living/working in, or near the city).
Following on from the success of D.I.Y (Do.It.Yourself), a publication about DIY theatre and performance (2014), LOW PROFILE were invited by editor Robert Daniels to share insights on DIY arts practice and projects.
A badge work by LOW PROFILE that aims to help wearers deal with the uncertainties of the future. In response to words offered by fellow artist Kevin Hunt.
Impromptu is a layered sound and light work made up of specially commissioned recordings of renowned Freddie Mercury tribute act Gary Mullen (winner of Stars In Their Eyes, 2000)..
A limited edition artwork for the labels of Plymouth Arts Centres house wine bottles.
A badge work commissioned by Cambridge Junction to celebrate Night Watch – A non-stop 24 hour festival of new performance.
LOW PROFILE set about a painstaking re-tracing (from memory) of all the connections we had made with artists, makers, venues, institutions, curators and producers since starting to work together. Published In Robert Daniels (ed) (2014) D.I.Y (Do.It.Yourself)…
Picture in the Paper was a participatory project exploring and celebrating group identity and temporary allegiances (2014-2015). Commissioned by ICIA (Bath) & supported by Arts Council England…
Never Give Up is a site-responsive text work, spelled out across the windows of public buildings (arts organisations). This positive yet defiant message engages passers-by, welcomes visitors and projects a rallying cry to all who face adversity in difficult times.
Daily Performance Huddle is a site-responsive work produced for the staff of Exeter Phoenix as part of LOW PROFILE’s solo exhibition ‘Against All Odds’ at Exeter Phoenix (2013)…
Here’s to another 10, LOW PROFILE’s future-gazing publication, with contributions from Action Hero, Hunt & Darton, Lindsay Hughes, Barry Sykes, Kevin Hunt, Rebecca Weeks and Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley & Lee Miller.
LOYAL is a loyalty card scheme developed especially for Hunt & Darton Cafe that encourages customers to return to the cafe and make purchases….
To celebrate 9 years of working together LOW PROFILE produced a special newspaper, bringing together a collection of previously un-published and under-published texts…
Survival Shelf is an eclectic and ever expanding library of pre-owned books that somehow incorporate the word ‘survive’ in their titles. Commissioned for Hunt & Darton Cafe.
‘3 Short Essays’ is a 10-minute performance featuring the TV/film characters that in a survey conducted in August 2007, Americans voted as the fictional characters they would most want by their side in a situation of emergency.
LOW PROFILE were invited to contribute to a publication produced in collaboration between members of Extra Special People at Eastside Projects (Birmingham), Aid & Abet (Cambridge), Spike Associates (Bristol) and WARP (Cardiff).
As part of the artist-driven programme of events ‘Come to Ours’ (2011), artists LOW PROFILE were commissioned to produce a new badge series celebrating and interrogating their relationship to Plymouth.
Come to Ours was a programme of activity and events that celebrated and showcased the work of both emerging and established artists and curators. Co-founded and co-delivered by LOW PROFILE.
A special collection of LOW PROFILE’s ephemera (low-fi, handmade, photocopied bookworks, badges, nametapes and other formats) housed in the Live Art Development’s Reading Room archive.
The Underdogs (developed for Project Space 11) celebrates LOW PROFILE’s unwavering belief in underdogs (those least likely to win against all odds).
Inbetween Time commissioned LOW PROFILE’s unannounced performance action honouring the most punctual member of the festival…
For Inbetween Time Festival 2010, LOW PROFILE were commissioned to develop new work for the context of a double decker routemaster bus (parked outside of Arnolfini, Bristol).
A self-initiated residency by LOW PROFILE and Hunt & Darton on a wooded campsite in Devon.
Developed for DIY 6 (the Live Art Development Agency’s DIY workshop programme) this workshop provided artists with the opportunity to realise the potential of the ‘stuff’ that is leftover from the artistic process of making.
LOW PROFILE have been embarking on a series of 17-18 hour MacGyver marathons, cataloguing useful information as part of an on-going interest in being prepared for every eventuality…
A 12 hour durational performance where LOW PROFILE read, try to learn from and test each other on the survival advice offered by the 1960s publication, The Book of Survival.
PL:ay was an ambitious one-day festival in various locations throughout Plymouth city centre – showcasing live art, video, photography and installation, to over 3500 people for free. (July 2007) Co-founded and delivered by LOW PROFILE
A publication commissioned by Newlyn Art Gallery to mark the opening of their new artspace The Exchange (Penzance). Using the gallery’s visitors books as a starting point…
Following performances at a number of OMSK events, LOW PROFILE were invited to contribute to OMSKbook…
A presentation about what it is like to live & work as an artist in Plymouth (in 2006), made in response to B+B’s ArtSchool (Sophie Hope) and Plymouth Art Centre‘s invitation.
LOW PROFILE’s research into double acts began when other people started to ask Hannah and Rachel to explain their collaborative practice…
LOW PROFILE were invited to contribute to Chrisoph Keller’s publication Black Friday. Using dialogue from Disney’s 1964 film Mary Poppins…
Just in Case is an intimate guided walking tour where LOW PROFILE bring their audience through the unseen, unknown and rarely visited locations of a city.
LOW PROFILE were invited to contribute to Looking, Encountering, Staging edited by Anke Bangma (Piet Zwart Institute & Revolver Books)…
Taking the form of a low-key game show where players are invited to decide which of a set of confessional, personal and banal statements belong to which performer.
A sound work for an answer machine. First recorded in 2004 and then presented as part of ‘Words Don’t Come Easy’ (Berlin, 2010) and ‘Against All Odds’ (Exeter Phoenix, 2013).
A Lesson in Love sees LOW PROFILE attempt to learn a list of at least 100 song titles ‘by heart’, in front of an audience.
A 3 minute, one-to-one performance for a photographic darkroom (and resulting exhibition of photographs) – LOW PROFILE’s first collaborative work.