Janette Porter

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Please note - This webpage is still currently under design... (many more images to be added soon!)

FieldShed/Urban/Ecology

Gaia Cabinet, unit 17, Albert Dock, Liverpool (2008)

Janette Porter: Profile

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Janette Porter is an Environmental Artist based in Liverpool UK.

Janette has worked with many community groups across the country developing projects and implementing environmental workshops with respect to the communities open spaces. She works sensitively with the differing groups, responding to their particular concerns and needs. Janette is a keen community collaborator who aims to develop trusting relationships within the working groups. As with her own work, the ongoing ‘process’ of the project is as important as the finished piece.

"My art process weaves my ideas into the fabric of the community; the work relies on collaboration, as often there are many stages and complexity to the ideas we work on. The process relies upon experts in other fields such as scientists, landscape architects, farmers and ecologists. I aim to preserve cultural diversity through my work, to reinterpret native rituals and traditions through the context of environmental art and to rekindle the beliefs that once fostered respect for the environment. I am concerned with reconnecting people to nature and also to the prehistory of their locality."

Academic Background

2001 - 2003
PGCE Liverpool Hope University
1996 - 1997
MA Art as Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University
1988 - 1992
BA (Hons) Fine Art & Sociology, Liverpool Hope University

Current Work

Residency - Kultivator Olsen, Sweden,
Residency - Kurt Schwitters Merz Barn, littoral Kendal, UK
Project artist Crass Rootes & Transition Town Wirral, in collaboration with The Big Issue in The North
Project artist Gaia Project, High Tide: Mersey 2059, Liverpool
Group exhibition/debate - Gaia Project/L@tE, FACT, Liverpool
Developing collaborative projects, Kultivator & Littoral & Liverpool University Sound Dept
Blossom to Pie, spring -winter 09, Project artist & Film maker

L@tE (Living at the Edge)

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www.lateexchange.com

L@tE is a collaborative opportunity, provided at grassroots level, to address people’s concerns in situations where climate change will have a direct effect on everyday life.

It aims to record people’s actions in response to these concerns, with reference to the specific characteristics of localities and the meeting of water and land.

It aims to invite people to respond creatively to environmental problems, which have been brought about by our social developmental unsustainability, industrial society and modern global economics.

It aims to address a perceived complacency through interaction, offering a response to the current socio-political system’s failure to engender democratic engagement, and gives individuals an alternative medium through which they can articulate an independent voice.

L@tE is concerned with the edge in a broader sense, exploring different dimensions of this concept, expanded from humanity’s direct interaction with nature.

Selected: Commissions / Exhibitions / Projects / Workshops

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1998 to date
L@tE, a changing climate project, working with waters edge international.

2008
Fieldshed/Urban Ecology(film Premier Urban Strawberry Lunch Film Festival Liverpool) Gaia artist, exhibition & performance Gaia cabinet, Albert dock, Liverpool Biennial Independents (GAIA consultant for project development)
Walk Unknown, Production manager & creative director, A big Issue in the north & Crass Rooted initiative
Last of the Apples, project artist Collaborative, Schwitters/Bradshaw and other apples Project

2007
Public consultation Starr Fields-Ringo Starr in collaboration with Debbi Lander
Kenya, community consultation sponsored by LECT
Four Corners Artist in residence, Arts in Regeneration Liverpool, joint exhibition

2006/07
Stories of Steps, a L@tE project, LCC funded, awarded runner up Merseyside Groundwork trust

2006 to date
Liverpool Fair Trade, outreach project with LJMU, award winning for Community outreach, Fair trade Foundation.
Unity Community Centre Toxteth, Photo project, sense of place & allotment project.
Eat, Greet & Play, community environmental sustainable faith outreach, founder, Chair and artistic director

2006
Exchange & Engage, Tower Hill health centre, Kirkby KMBC. Residency

2005 to date
Icing on the Cake, collaborative community

2005
Focus on Furrows, a 10 acre ploughed public sculpture north Lincolnshire

2000
Silent Space, West Berkwith, Lincolnshire, Commission redevelopment of active church yard.
Cressington Strip, Consultation & commission Associated British Ports Garston, re-design dock edge to enhance natural species.
Art on the Map, group exhibition, Pea Rooms Sleaford Lincolnshire

1999
Artist in Residence Seaters Gallery Westray, Orkney Scotland
Green, group exhibition ADec Elly, Cambridgshire

1998 - 2000
Living Earth Sculpture, artist initiated 150k funded public living sculpture, David Belamy Award

1997
Glory Glory, group show Manchester Metropolitan University, MA Fine Art degree show

1996
Earth Our Home, joint exhibition, Lincoln Cathedral

1995
Workshop leader, Compartment Apartments, Angel Row Gallery Nottingham
Journey Ahead, Group exhibition, Pump House Gallery, Nottingham

1994
New Earth, Commission, redesign public cycle way, Oldham MBC, 100k funded.

1993
A Place to e Silent within, Halewood Country Park, living sculpture, extended from Tate Liverpool outreach, working with Halewood Youth Assoc.
One week Bluecoat Garden residency, Silent Stone, Sponsored by NW Water
Passage of Time, residency, Sefton Ranger Service
Moments of Time, Solo show, Mercedes Benz showroom
Workshop leader, Tate Gallery Liverpool, New realities, Elective Affinities
Room to Manoevour, group show, Albert dock Liverpool (exhibition coordinator)

1992
Arena Art Shed, group show (exhibition coordinator)
Arts Lab, Visionfest, group show

Study / Steering groups

2007
Liverpool CC, Mental Well Being Impact Assessment
2006 to date
Liverpool Environmental Steering group, LCVS
2004 - 2006
South Liverpool Environmental Group

Image Archive 1994 - 2009 (selected projects)

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Living Earth Sculpture

Lincolnshire (1998 - 2000)

Earth Our Home, group exhibition

Lincoln Cathedral (1996)

New Earth, commission

Oldham MBC (1994)

Passage of Time, residency

Sefton Ranger Service (1993)

A Place to be Silent within

Halewood Country Park (1993)