Is it true that isolation and solitude have become unfavourable in artistic practice, whereas collaboration and visibility are the buzzwords of today’s arts scene? Or, in other words, is not having to work in solitude an indication of success?
This increasingly contested idea of the ‘lone artist’ is what curators Hannah Presley and Annika Aitken have identified and sought to reframe in Buxton Contemporary‘s latest exhibition, nightshifts. The group show looks not only at the meditative after-hours of creativity, but also how hyper-visibility can become counterproductive, and even threatening.
