Stuart Brisley in DRAF Studio

2 Mar-5 Mar 2016

Overview

DRAF commissions a new performance by legendary British artist Stuart Brisley. English artist Stuart Brisley’s (b.1933, Surrey) pioneering practice spans over six decades and encompasses painting, sculpture, site-specific installation, sound, photography, film and performance. Brisley studied at Guildford School of Art (1949–54) and the Royal College of Art in London (1956–9), as well as at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich (1959–60) and Florida State University in Tallahassee (1960–62). Influenced by Marxist counter-cultural politics in the 1960s, he adopted performance as the democratic basis for a new relationship between artist and audience. Working solely within public spaces in the 1970s, Brisley developed a series of solo and collaborative works that pushed the body through various extended tasks or rituals.