CURRENT Jeannie is currently collaborating with Mike Blackman on a Distributed South residency to develop and test a dead reckoning system as a participatory tool to investigate and re-interpret internal spaces. |  |
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AUTUMN 2008 City as a Canvas 11th October 2008 The City as a Canvas was commissioned for a BIG DRAW event in Portsmouth. The project linked issues of sustainable travel, drawing, venue accessibility with public participation and community engagement. The City as a Canvas is a digital arts project by Jeannie Driver and Mike Blackman in collaboration with cyclists. Using GPS trackers cycle teams followed pre-planned routes to create digital drawings across the City of Portsmouth. Data was collected and downloaded at the event creating animated drawings utilising Google earth. Drawings created: City Cycle Turning Portsmouth on its Head A Ferry Good Ride Further information: www.jeanniedriver.com/cityasacanvas |  |
SUMMER 2008 Multi Channel Artsway 3rd July 2008 Short film Office Investigations AQUIRE 14th May - 13th July 2008 control spike sculpture Group exhibition Aspex Gallery & Gasp Space arc evaluation commission April- June 2008 ARC (Artist resource Centre) coordinator Jonathan Parsons commissioned Jeannie to research and produce a full report of arc services and artist experiences across the region, utilising graphic and visual communication. |  |
SPRING 2008 For current news please visit www.jeanniedriver.blogspot.com The SPIKE IT project can be found at www.spikeit.org.uk Register your work mood today on the interactive ATMOSPHERE board www.spikeit.org.uk/beta/atmosphere.html |  |
SEPTEMBER 2007 Website launch and Exhibition. 10th October 2007. Over the past few months I have been working on the spike-it website. The website will be launched with an accompanying exhibition in the Intro Space at the prestigious south coastASPEXGallery. The launch will include a SPIKE IT Free Prize draw for business and organisations attending the launch. Attendees will be eligible to apply for a SPIKE in residence in their own location. Photographs from the SPIKE residence will be added to the exhibition. This is a great opportunity for businesses and offices to become involved. SPIKE and Office INVESTIGATIONS have identified business benefits for both staff and organisations procedures. SPIKE IT will also be on exhibition at theMillas Gallery- project room from 3rd November 2007. It is intended that SPIKE 5 will reside in the University offices with a live feed to the project room. This intends to focus the viewer on the process of SPIKE, as the work. Locations for SPIKE's 6-9 are still being sort, prior to a 9 SPIKE installation with video. Please contact Jeannie for more information, or to receive and invite for the launch. |  |
JULY 2007 This month has been a month of getting creative with the mass of material generated from SPIKE and experimentation with film for future exhibitions. Thewww.Spikeit.org.uksite is still under development. I'm currently working with artist and software engineer Mike Blackman in developing an online ATMOSPHERE board to be located in the SPIKEIT website. |  |
JUNE 2007 Resurgence Exhibition Langstone Gate Building. 14th June - 29th June Office installation Seaward Properties commissioned art exhibition Resurgence to launch the reopening of their Langstone Gate Offices. The group exhibition was curated by purple dot. For this exhibition I created installation Office within one of the refurbished offices, relating to the site and the (part) business audience. ViewOFFICEon the Projects and Exhibitions section for further information and images. STEP DATA is still continuing with more people recruited at ARTSPACE open studios event on 30th June and 1st July. |  |
MAY 2007 SPIKE 3 resides in theWinchester Gallery Office This small office accommodated SPIKE 3 which became a vessel for many ART preview and exhibition cards that are received in the office. SPIKE 3 was monitored by CCTV creating footage for the final multi SPIKE installation, that intends to juxtapose 9 SPIKES from a variety of offices. |  |
APRIL 2007 A new dedicated websitewww.spikeit.org.ukwill be on line later this month to document SPIKE in offices and on location together with journal notes and writings from participants and creative practitioners involved in the work. |  |  |
MARCH 2007 After completely being floored with flue for two weeks I recovered whilst watching the video tapes taken during the Office Investigation number 1. Hen Weekend30/3/07- 1/4/07 a weekend in Bexhill for female artists, curators and writers. Organised by Artist and Curator Ellie Harrison to facilitate discussion and collaboration. As part of the Hen weekend I undertook a commission which is available on the hen website.www.henweekend.orgA wider explanation of the work and my reaction to the weekend is posted here on the works page. John Pounds Centre: The location of two of my public art commissions and a process led residency has been short listed for a "Creating the Future - ASC Award for Sustainable Communities" http://www.ascskills.org.uk/pages/awards |  |
FEBRUARY 2007 As part of the SPIKE project I undertook A 3 day residency in a local Authority office. More information about the work can be found on the practice page |  |
JANUARY 2007 I’ve changed my name, I’m now officially known as Jeannie Driver. So please update your email contact tojeannie@jeanniedriver.com January has been an interesting month including research, creative development and project management. Activity has gone according to plan but with some unexpected but welcome outcomes. A series of experimental images can be found in the studio section: work in progress. Exploring the themes of audience as participators in work has lead to new work Gauge, transferable concepts to question understanding of art and issues of work. this work will be tested in the coming months. The first Office Investigation will take place on January 26-28th, in a local government office, along with SPIKE, ATMOSPHERE and STEP DATA. The interactions will be videoed and a workshop and interviews with staff will explore further issues of paper-work, flow, production, and waste. Mapping activity forms part of the work.The mapbelow is the first in the series, and will expand with time, information and data. View Map |  |
DECEMBER 2006 Arts Council Award- Investment in Individuals. leap for the sky, spin round, double hand punch in the air -I GOT IT! With a gesture much much more demonstrative than Tim Henman winning match point I’d like to announce that I’ve been successful in gaining an Arts Council ‘Grants for the Arts’ Award for Individuals. This significant funding enables me to develop my creative practice and work with new audiences. Over the next six months I will be focusing on investigations in offices. This will include locating the six foot SPIKE(s) in office environments to examine workers relationship with paper: work flow, production, consumption and waste. Actions of SPIKE ing will be videoed to record the linear build up of paper on SPIKE. These investigations and collective of SPIKEs will be developed into an installation work for gallery exhibition. The ATMOSPHERE board, developed during a recent residency, will be used as a research tool to document the mood of the office. This research will aid further development of ATMSOPHERE. The STEPDATA project will continue. Thank you to all who have participated to date. For those of you who haven’t, new STEPDATA packs will be available in January. What a great way to start a new year! If you'd like further information please send an email tojeannie@jeanniedriver.comwith a subject headingWEB CONTACT. |  | photograph byJon Snape
SEPTEMBER 2006 After a busy summer in Cornwall and Paris I’m now extending the work started in the John Pounds residency with an artist initiated project STEP DATA. STEP DATA is seeking individuals to form an alphabet of job titles and the number of steps taken during their working day, eg A is for Artist, B is for Bookmaker.... Each participant will receive a pedometer and a data sheet to complete. You will also be interviewed and photographed to create a graphic. Participant’s identity can remain anonymous in the final artwork. “I’m intrigued that we are recommended to take a minimum of 10,000 steps a day. If you sleep for 8 hours that is 625 steps to achieve every waking hour. To explore this I started noting how many steps I and others were taking at work with interesting results.... So STEP DATA aims to investigate the relationship between jobs and steps. The work will represent the data in a series of artworks to be exhibited in work environments.” Sign up NOW to participate! Please contactjeannie@jeanniedriver.com SPIKE IT I am also pursuing a new work SPIKE IT. This project is in its formative stages and is seeking organisations and businesses as partners in the project. SPIKE IT explores people’s relationship with paper at work. Whether you view it as a product of your achievement, a record of work, an annoyance, or the bane of your life! The paperless office was predicted but has it arrived? SPIKE IT is seeking people and organisations to collect paper for paper cull events when the spike will visit your office or place of work. You will have the opportunity of spiking your paper. This event will be filmed and used in the final gallery installation together with the spike and a plaque identifying the place of work or individual. If you are interested in this project and have a location for the spike to visit, please contactjeannie@jeanniedriver.comfor more information. Suitable locations will be given collection boxes and a date will be arranged for the spike visit. Please feel free to print the PDFs to advertise the projects. |  | Download STEP DATA PDF Download SPIKE PDF
JULY 2006 ‘Residency Revealed’ opened in June 06. The installation revealed the workings of this process led project. Including: a mapping of process, the evidence wall, questionnaires, ATMOSHPHERE Findings of research are contained within artworks including ‘here to there’ pedometer project and projections of the life of the magnetic white board situated within the evidence wall. More project details and images will be located in the Public Art section in the autumn. Factory Road Eastleigh At long last the banners are in situ. Artist Alec Peever carved the quote into the school wall and installed the chemically etched plates. Theses were the outcome of the workshop in the school that I collated and chemically etched to explain the Norwood story to passers-by thus adding to the understanding and history of the street. The project will be completed early September when the paving slabs are installed, making sense of the theme, Walk in my Footsteps. |  |
MARCH 2006 John Pounds Residency Update The residency at John Pounds Centre has been extended and I’m continuing to develop the work and expand the participation. I have become really interested in the data from people’s step counters in relation to their occupation, exercise classes and location to and from JPC. I will be promoting an open studio exhibition early summer to share evidence of the engagement and the ideas explored. Workshops Over the last few months I have also been working for PCC Health Improvement Team. These workshops run through the schools and the JPC have focused on arts and exercise. My workshops have included walks with pedometers together with floor drawing exercises focusing on traces of activity. Paper Spike I’m continuing to expand and evolve the paper spike project. I now have collection boxes in a number of offices and I’ve booked a film crew for May. The work place has a significant impact on wellbeing and I’m developing a number of interactive artworks to be placed in offices as part of this work and evolving from the residency. Eastleigh The ‘walk in my footsteps’ project is now in its fabrication stage and should be opening May/June. Please send anemailif you wish to be added to my contacts list regarding the opening at John Pounds or Eastleigh, noting the project in the subject heading. Please note this is not an automated service. |  |
JANUARY 2006 A busy month… Factory Road- Eastleigh Borough Council. 'Walk in footsteps'- is the title of the artworks which comprise of three panels attached to lighting columns, and a series of paving slabs, relating to the site. Symbols are used to represent the variety of activity that has taken place in Factory Road over the last 100 years. References include, the diary, house building, the decorators shop, the photographers, the school and the clearing hospital in what is now Norwood school. The title 'walk in my footprints', etched into footprints, remind us that we walk along the road as many have walked before, and that our walk, although it may be regular, is indeed a small amount in the life of the road but adds to that history. Perfect Citizen The arts Plus award- This international collaboration is a new and enjoyable and challenging experience for me. The project is progressing well, with interesting opportunities for the project to developed past the first Arts Plus Stage. The deadline is looming and work continuing so a furtgher update next month. Portsea arts and Health residency The majority of my energies this month have been developing both the content for the report and making some art! I hope to soon announce a date for an open studio event at the end of March, to show my findings, proposals and artwork. Please contact me if you are interested in attending. |  |
NOVEMBER The residency at John Pounds Centre is now underway. I am currently exploring understandings of health and wellbeing with residents and staff at the centre. To encourage dialogue I have launched a project “from here to there and there to here”. Through giving people pedometers, this project encourages users to note how many steps they are doing around the centre, during activities and in the locality. The project is supported by questionnaires and data logging sheets. Information will be transferred to the ongoing mapping installed on the gallery wall. This is a visual report and includes peoples quotes, symbols of activities and identified needs by centre users in terms of possible locations for art. Symbols and quotes may be explored further as proposals for possible way finding and text pieces for the building. |  |
SEPTEMBER Artist in Residence:John Pounds Healthy Living Centre. October 2005- January 2006 I have embarked on an artist residence position at the new John Pounds Centre in Portsmouth. The residency is based in one of three new art studios and will take place over a minimum of four months. The residency has a specific remit together with opportunities for developing and extending my own practice. The research based residency is focused on exploring notions of ‘healthy living and wellbeing’ with centre users, staff and the wider community. This initial residency for the centre aims to unite all agencies located in the building and to widen the dialogue of healthy living, focusing on the John Pounds Trust’s vision of ‘Happier and Healthier Lives for all’. As artist in residence, my role is to expand debate and discourse around notions of ‘Healthy Living and Wellbeing’, creating channels for multiple views, revealing connections and disconnections. The residency has two facets, enquiry and response. Methods of engagement in the initial stage will involve collaboration with existing community services, and take the form of interviews, participatory workshops, photography and video. The residency will culminate in an installation located in the new studio, revealing findings and to celebrate diversity of voice and experience. The residency will inform the evolving arts strategy. The John Pounds Healthy Living Centre was opened on 6th October 2005. Information about the building and the trusts ethos is available atwww.johnpoundscentre.co.uk |  |
JUNE Led by SCAN, the South’s new media arts agency, the ‘Perfect Citizen’ project was awarded an Arts Council, Art Plus 06 Development award. This innovative collaborative project brings together the concepts and methods of: artist and filmmaker Mike Stubbs with Murray Anderson-Wallace of Inter-Logics, a research consultancy; regional artists Jeannie Driver and Lizzie Sykes; and Armin Medosch, a London based expert in computer networking. Perfect Citizen will examine what it means to be a citizen in contemporary Southampton. A range of agencies – including Southampton City Council and City Eye - and an unusual creative team will look at the role of the developer, urban planner, and policy makers in defining good citizenship while also taking views of the ‘ordinary person’. Project partners include: Southampton City Council, Public Engagement Project (Skills for Care, the Employer’s Organisation, IdeA), Mount Pleasant Media Workshop and City Eye. |  |
MAY Walk in my Footsteps- Eastleigh Factory Road Since 2004, I have been working as Lead Artist with Eastleigh Borough Council to produce a vision and artworks as an intergral part of the Factory Road development. In July 2004 I worked with pupils from Norwood School on a historical and geographic search of the area. This process included interviews with members from the local luncheaon club, talks from the Historiacl Society, linking with Eastleigh Museum and input from some lacol residents. This process fed into the ideas and concepts for the proposed artworks. The vision is now complete and the artworks comprise of two lamp posts panels, a trail in the flooring and an artwork relating to Norwwod on the school wall. All the artworks relate to the history of the site. For this project I will be collaborating with Artist Alec Peever. www.artscouncil.org.uk |  |
ARTSPACE This month I have joined the artist studio organisation ARTSPACE. I have a studio for six months at the Brougham Road Site. The organisation and its members hoast'Open Studios'in the afternoons of the11th and 12th June. All welcome to visit,I'm always happy to discuss my projects and work. I will also be selling some work due to storage limitations, so if you fancy a bargin and are looking to buy an original artwork, bring your cheque book! |  |
FEBRUARY Woodland pallette: An installation compirising of 48metres of digial print located in a pedestrain subway under the M3. This exciting project involed workshops with pupils from Scantabout Primary School. Full details can now be located on the Public Arts Projects page. |  |
JANUARY I am pleased to announce that I have been successfully awarded: SE Grant for the Arts for Individuals. 2004/ 2005. The grant will allow me to embark on a programme of activity to develop skills in using the www as a platform for collaborative and public art projects. I will also be linking with other creative individuals and organisations including SCAN, the Light Surgeons and ARC. To support this work I will be attending courses on the ETA, Artists Training Programme and IT courses. www.artscouncil.org.uk |  |

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