Art to inspire and engage

Caroline McGlone

Bio

Caroline McGlone is a visual & aural artist who works in analogue & digital. She has a passion for cross medium and immersive arts and is a Creative Director & Producer. A multi-disciplinary artist, her vision as a visual/audio artist and multi-platform creator takes her into the realms of installation and exhibition, theatre, composition, performance and crafts. With performances, exhibitions and installations in cultural centres, festival stages and into gallery spaces and even in community gardens, she loves to explore different spaces and terrains and how people connect to or interface with art works.

Portfolio

Peaceful Star Explosion

by Caroline McGlone

Peaceful Star Explosion

©Caroline McGlone

How does it feel when a star explodes?

A space quest. (Read more)

This post apocalyptic space quest explores AI, space travel, cameras, documentation, AI and humanity.

This audio installation and digital package is part of a broader theme on AI, memory and identity.

Relics. Tide.

Exhibition of personal artifacts

Relics. Tide. Artefacts from the artists life. (Read more)

Jewellery, data containers, costumes, heirlooms, boxes, cases and everyday items are curated for the viewer.

This installation and digital archive asks the audience to make a gentle enquiry into what it means to be human and alive on Earth at this time by exploring historic and modern day artefacts, found and curated, alongside artist-crafted works. It explores themes of travel, trade and possession. How do we archive and document?

Previous exhibits from this exhibition series were exhibited at ArtSpace Life Space, the Island, Bristol and Pervasive Media Studio, the Watershed, Bristol.

connection

Embroidery from heirloom threads and hoop.

Crafts, Community & Sustainability. (Read more)

Crafts and works with the hands are a thread that weaves through many of the artist’s projects. Crafts are ancient and can be undertaken alone or in a community. Caroline loves the connection to our humanity through hands and natural or simple materials. She has a focus on salvaged and sustainable materials, and folk traditions and skills.

Life is a Stage

A glorious lightness of being and heartfelt human connection

Theatre. Dance. Movement. Music. Composition. (Read more)

Bristol Old Vic. & The Tobacco Factory.

Life is a Stage: an exploration of the human condition through song, costume, dance and percussion… exploring a lightness of heart and a lightness of being; joy and human connection. Exploring the potential to include VR & AR for a remote digital package.

Live dance, poetry, percussion and song performance and the development of a digital immersive media package. This prototype scratch performance involved theatre research and methodology for neurodivergent practitioners and cast. Methodologies for individuals recovering from stroke were also explored as part of the accessibility strand of this project. Caroline composed & co-composed the music and wrote the poetry for this live scratch performance at Prototype Festival at the Tobacco Factory.

Can digital art expand viewing for remote audiences?
What opportunity for accessibility and enhanced cultural exchange can XR, extended realities and digital packages offer audiences?

This initial exploration at Bristol Old Vic theatre and the Tobacco Factory was a research and development piece and prototype investigating where digital (VR and digital archives) could meet theatre and dance to expand audience reach and provide enhanced accessibility options for remote viewers. The dance was choreographed to invite future development and documentation.

Butterflies … Scales

Micro to Macro

Scales & wings (Read more)

Hand illustrated ink & watercolour butterflies & scaled up expansion via Giclee Print. The original is tiny, the scales were drawn in micro detail – the original butterfly is about 5cm diameter – it was then expanded or scaled up to show the wing scales in detail. Exhibited at North Street Gallery as part of Upfest.

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Workshops

Creative, inspiring workshops in the realm of arts, sound and enjoyable creation. Contemporary skills are facilitated and taught with a space to explore, play, create and innovate. Techniques using

analogue (traditional materials, tools and crafts)
digital computers, VR, XR & AI can be tailored for specific audiences and workshops.

Past workshops Caroline has facilitated and led include: Contemporary art, make spaces, writing & songwriting, dance & theatre and sustainable natural outdoors workshops.

Caroline McGlone facilitates workshops for both adults and children and has specialist skills in accessible art and SENS activities. Natural and sustainable materials are some of the crafts and skills from previous workshops and facilitation that Caroline offers groups, audiences and clients.

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