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Dot Young

Dot Young is a Scottish artist living and working in London, with her studio based in Deptford. She has a BA in Fine Art Sculpture and an MA in Creative Media Arts.
She enjoys historical research and exploring narratives though sculptural installation. Her practice currently explores the work of 19th century French chef Urbain Dubois, where she considers the resonances his work has with her own interest in architectural form, geometry, materials and traditional sculptural practices.
Her previous research enquiry 'Aurality of Objects' explored objects and materials in terms of their socio-political contexts and production processes and can be found at 
https://www.dotyoung.com/fine-artresearch.html.
She joined Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, as a lecturer and course leader in BA Theatre Practice in 2007. She has several years of teaching experience at undergraduate level, adult education and in the community in the UK and internationally. 
She has taught portrait sculpture, figurative sculpture and as a freelance practitioner in the arts she has worked extensively both here in the UK and globally, undertaking projects and running creative workshops with the local community in The Caucasus in Russia, Las Palmas, Madrid and Caceres in Spain and Abu Dhabi, Sharjah & Dubai. She has worked in the Tengenege Shona Sculpture Village in Zimbabwe and with sculptors bronze casting in Harare, Zimbabwe & South Africa, as well as travelling in Namibia, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, India, Mexico, and Europe including the Sami area of Northern Scandinavia researching local arts and crafts.  
She also currently works with AFRIL, Action for Refugees in Lewisham, engaging in arts workshops and community events.

Research presentations/publications:

Deptford X
'Confection Reflection'
​A sculptural installation that invites the audience to enter the surreal and flamboyant world of 19th Century French chef and pâtissier Urbain Dubois. Chef-de-cuisine to the Prussian court, Dubois fused his passion for cuisine with that of architecture, to produce the extravagant ‘pièce montées’, replicated in the gallery.
2019

Available at:
https://deptfordx.org/event/dot-young-confection-reflection/2019-10-25/


​‘Three reasons to think twice about mapping the brain’ 
Collaborative article with:
Danai Dima, Lecturer Cognitive Neuroscience, City, University of London
Mike Duggan, Cultural Geographer, Royal Holloway
2017
Available at:
‘The Conversation’
https://theconversation.com/three-reasons-to-think-twice-about-mapping-the-brain-80341
‘City- University of London News’ https://www.city.ac.uk/news/2017/august/brain-maps-danai-dima

Impossible Partnerships: Mapping – (Un)charted Territories
Roundtable discussion, Somerset House, London,
The role of maps in brain imagery, cultural geography, artistic practice, and everyday life, held in collaboration with

Danai Dima, Lecturer Cognitive Neuroscience, City, University of London
Mike Duggan, Cultural Geographer, Royal Holloway
The roundtable was facilitated by The Culture Capital Exchange.
2017
Available at:
https://www.theculturecapitalexchange.co.uk/2017/04/11/mapping/


The Sensorial Object: - Aurality of Objects
Cross-disciplinary writings curated by Dr Natasha Mayo and Zoe Preece on behalf of the Makers Guild for Wales, Cardiff. The Sensorial Object, was a publication and exhibition, exploring the sense experience through the materiality of things.
2016
Available at:
The Sensorial Object
https://thesensorialobject.wordpress.com/dot-young/


Re Activating Space Symposium - ‘Aurality of Objects’
Research Presentation and MA workshops at Cardiff School of Art
With Dr Natasha Mayo, Philippa Lawrence and Professor Wendy Keay-Bright
‘REACTIVATING SPACE intended to generate proposals for installation artworks in site specific locations around Cardiff School of Art to heighten sensory awareness, and foster empathic experiences.
2016

Deptford X – ‘Extension’
25-9-15 to 4-19-15
ART HUB Gallery, London.
Installation, collaboration with Lex Kosanke, East German sound designer.
'Extension’ tracks the visual and sonic history of a hair extension back to a Hindu Temple in Chennai, India, previously offered in an act of religious tonsure. It focuses on materiality and the shift in value from a religious to a commercial context.
Electromicroscope imaging by Mahmoud Ardnekani, Department of Materials, Imperial College.
25-9-15 to 4-19-15
Available at:
https://www.dotyoung.com/fine-artresearch.html
Film: https://vimeo.com/182006070
Press: https://www.timeout.com/london/blog/five-things-to-see-at-deptford-x-festival-092515



Photobook Pop-Up
‘Extension’ Presentation
msdm studio [mobile social design matter] Director Paula Roush
http://www.msdm.org.uk/portfolio/photobook-pop-up-programme/
Practice Research presentation of ‘Extension’ self-assemble artists book.
2016
Available at:
Website: https://www.dotyoung.com/fine-artresearch.html
‘Extension’ Film: https://vimeo.com/182006070


‘Extension’ Installation and research Presentation
LSBU Digital Gallery, London
‘Extension’ was presented as an installation in the LSBU Digital Gallery, London
The opening, accompanied by an artist’s talk, with collaborator Lex Kosanke, East German sound designer, who devised the soundtrack.
2015
Available at: https://www.dotyoung.com/fine-artresearch.html

CHAIR – A Life Backwards
Free Space Gallery, Kentish Town, London
Interactive sound installation, photography, sound-walk, workshops and artists talk, in collaboration with US composer Gregg Fisher and Russian photographer Pavel Legankov
‘Chair’ focuses on the aural history of one of the most commonplace and symbolic objects of everyday life, and explores the complex political and environmental aspects of production
2013
Available at:
https://thechairproject.org/

‘Rewind’
Group Show, Lewisham Arthouse, London                                           
‘Aurality of Objects’ practice as research archival work “Chair in progress’
2012

RCSSD, Research presentation
‘Aurality of Objects’
Practice as Research Presentation and artists talk
RCSSD, London
2012

‘Aurality of Objects’
The Athens Institute for Education and Research    
'Aurality of Objects - Chair - A Life Backwards’. Research paper presentation, in collaboration with Gregg Fisher, US Sound composer/designer. 
​2010

Theatre Noise – The Sound of Performance
‘Residual Matter’ installation in collaboration with Justin Bennett, The Institute of Sonology, The Hague
Residual Matter tracks of the coming into being, or ‘birth’ of an object. It explores the raw noise produced when making an object, not ordinarily captured or evaluated, and considers how it might inform our understanding of the object.
2009
Available at:
https://www.9thplanetwebdesign.co.uk/noise/pages/perform.html#objects


‘Aurality of Objects-Residual matter’     
Shunt Vaults, London Bridge, London                     
Installation work in collaboration with sound artist Justin Bennett, Institute of Sonology, the Hague
2009
Available at:
Residual Matter Film: https://vimeo.com/83540302
Residual Matter Stop Motion Film: https://vimeo.com/191602238


Deptford X, Flux                                         
Art House, London   
‘Aurality of Objects- Corridor’.
'Corridor', Deptford X, London, was part of a series of sound/digital/projection installations. The event was collaboratively produced in conjunction with Amanda Frances, freelance artist, UEL, and Paul Jones, London based digital artist.  
25-9-09/4-10-09  

Aurality of Objects © d.young 2009


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