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Abi Ighodaro graduated with a BA Fine Art from The Slade School of Fine Art, London 2002. In the same year she received a University college London Expedition Grant to research traditional dance and festivals in Senegal, Mali and Niger.
Since then, Abi have undertaken a number of commissions, exhibitions, residencies and performances including ‘Bag Lady’ at Portlaoise Biennial: Urban Interventions’, 2007 and the Mentoring Programme in Dance and choreography at Daghdha Dance company, Limerick, 2006 / 2007.
Ighodaro was also assistant project coordinator at the Mediated Bodies: Media Technology in Dance project and worked in the Baldoyle Family resource centre, in their community education programme in African dance and folktales.
At her time inNo.72 Abi will explore dance and drawing through performance
and installations.
the week started with a bit of a panic. Over the weekend i had been muddling around in my head. I had spent friday of last week researching valentines and think about exchanges, exchanges of gifts exchanges of words and exchanges of intentions.
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So as i pottered around the gigantic space and i was thinking about this and looking at my photos on the wall i started thinking about making bread, Yeast bread more specifically. Yeast is a living creature and you have to treat it right if you want it to help you out. You have to feed it and keep it warm and keep the salt content down. 
I decided to hold bread making workshops for members f the public, to come into the studio (where my research and work is displayed) and learn how to make yeast bread for their valentines. The idea was to get people to spend a lot of time and energy producing something very basic that we often take for granted. They then had to hand stamp a ribbon to go around the bread to present it as a gift. I have been considering the rlationship between effort and value and do people really rate worth in terms of energy required for production.
Niamh Finn sent out a press release on Monday and advertised the Valentines Bread Making. There was a good uptake on Monday with 4 people booking in almost immediately, this continued throughout the week. I felt really encouraged my the support from people interested in the session.
I continued looking into Valentines and found some really interesting articles, one explained that a girl could predict her furure husband based 0n which bird she saw on Valentines morning. A Robin meant she would marry a sailor, a swallow meant she would marry a pauper but be very happy and a goldfinch promised marriage to a millionaire.
goldfich means you will marry a millionaire
with only a week and a half left to go the blind contour drawings are building up fast. Gypsy has encouraged so many people to take part that the windows are always full and are now being rotated with drawings. She is thankfully also finding the time to continue to develop her Swimmers series of drawings and its amazing to see, one drawing in particular, gather momentum and develop as the days go by. Gypsy is also working up some of her own blind contour drawings and the walls are steadily filling up …. the final plan is to make books from the blind contour series which i am really looking forward to seeing… so watch this space, better still drop in to see her at work.
WEEK OF JANUARY 19th, TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, 9:30am UNTIL 5:00pm. Unavailable on Monday and Wednesday. Closed lunch hours
WEEK OF JANUARY 26th, TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, 9:30am UNTIL 5:00pm WEDNESDAY 2:00pm UNTIL 5:00pm. Closed lunch hours
images relate to Gypsys studio, some curious passers by peeping in the peep holes she created, swimmers and some blind contour drawings that have been worked up………
curious passers by
studioswimmerblind contours
blind contours
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