Ruby Allen – Live Art Commission

Introducing our new Live Art Commission, which supports the production of a new live art or performance work from an emerging artist based in Glasgow. Focusing on experimental forms the commission culminates in a public performance, taking place in August. 

ruby allen {nella}{bury} is an artist and vocalist working with the yelps, textures and rhythms of sound. Drawing on histories of protest and resistance; across punk, folk, dub and more, she is interested in mapping dissonant spaces and expressions from within and without. 

Currently exploring the voice and in relationship to the heart/innards/bones of the piano harp, finding through heavy resonance a relationship between these two bodies. Finding what can be unblocked, lost and maybe found again in polyvocality. Working with the strings and tensions shared through harp, throat, mouth, belly these sonic meditations will shift and hold within them what it might take to prepare two bodies to know one another; to be witnessed as one.