Review

British Art Show 9: ‘A Scene At Once Thriving and Struggling To Survive’

Tom Jeffreys

“My thoughts for Art Review on British Art Show 9 – currently at Aberdeen Art Gallery then touring to Wolverhampton, Manchester & Plymouth. Highlights: Kathrin Böhm, Elaine Mitchener, Abigail Reynolds & Hrair Sarkissian.”

Gaudie Exclusive: BAS9 reviewed

Rory Buccheri

“Equally powerful and evocative is Elaine Mitchener‘s sound installation [NAMES II] (2019-2021), memorialising some of the 2,000 enslaved African people owned by an Aberdeenshire sugar planter in Jamaica.”

British Art Show offers an immersive voyage of discovery

Scott Begbie

“Elaine Mitchener’s poignant (NAMES II) is a roll-call of the 2,000 enslaved African people owned by an 18th century Jamaican sugar planter, whose family came from Aberdeenshire.”

Elaine Mitchener & Guests at Wigmore Hall

Andy Hamilton

“This is an imaginatively conceived recital.”

Two Live Streams from Wigmore Hall: Trish Clowes and Elaine Mitchener

Tony Dudley-Evans

“This was an outstanding start to the Associate Artists programme with Trish and Elaine, and encouraging evidence of an openness on the part of the Wigmore Hall, and also of the broader issue of the genre fluidity of so much contemporary music.”

Black Top Presents: Hamid Drake/Elaine Mitchener/William Parker/Orphy Robinson/ Pat Thomas

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“The work of this unique group shows how free improv can incorporate various genre musics, merging them into a miraculously coherent yet spontaneous whole.”

Rum Music For February Reviewed

Jennifer Lucy Allan

“Put The Brakes On’ is a suite of imaginary spaces, the galactic Black Top electronics swirl in while Mitchener putters and yelps like a meteor shower, as Drake, Parker and Thomas’ driving rhythm section erupts.”

Elaine Mitchener et Mats Gustafsson

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Olivier Lam

“Two breaths, two monsters of innovation.”