Photo Gallery: Artist who combines spray paint and dance next in line for The Lowry’s Edit series

Posted by Helen Nugent | Feb 12, 2019 | Uncategorized

Photo Gallery: Artist who combines spray paint and dance next in line for The Lowry’s Edit series

Edit.04: Live Creations by Joe Moran and Dance Art Foundation is the fourth in The Lowry’s Edit series of gallery projects and collaborations.

Joe Moran is a British-Irish artist and choreographer whose practice incorporates theatre and gallery performance, curatorial projects, lecture-performance, drawing and spray paint works. Joe is Artistic Director of Dance Art Foundation and is currently in residence at Wysing Arts Centre and is a Dance4 Associate Artist.

For Edit.04: Live Creations, Joe Moran will present a performance-based exhibition/open studio in The Lowry Galleries, combining live performance, film and drawing in spray paint. Working with a small team of dancers he will be creating a new gallery performance work, Before We Are Dead, which will be seen alongside his film installation, created in collaboration with Sam Williams, called ‘Here and Now.’ In addition he will create wall pieces, drawn in spray paint, that are conceived as expanded choreography.

Main image: Untitled panel work detail courtesy Joe Moran

Before We Are Dead research image - courtesy Joe Moran

Untitled (panel work) detail - courtesy Joe Moran

Untitled (spray paint work) - courtesy Joe Moran

Here and Not, Joe Moran and Sam Wiliams, photography David Edwards

Here and Not, Joe Moran and Sam Wiliams, photography David Edwards1

Here and Not, Joe Moran and Sam Williams, photography David Edwards

Live Creations by Joe Moran and Dance Art Foundation
Dates: March 23 – April 14

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