# orly ammon > Performance, Installation & Painting Artist ## Pages - [Meaningless Transactions](https://orlyammon.com/meaningless-transactions/): Meaningless Transactions 2026 Money was offered for its exact equivalent value at a market stall in Bodmin.Nothing was for sale except the act of exchange itself. The work explored money as collective belief: a symbolic energy no more inherently meaningful than kindness, attention, or daily ritual. A seemingly pointless transaction became a meaningful social encounter, exposing the strange tension between value, trust, ritual, and participation. - [LAST CHANCE](https://orlyammon.com/last-chance/): Last Chance 2025 A collaboration with painter Ros Bason at the Auction House in Redruth hosted by Liam Jolly It began with a trip to Plymouth and a forking great conversation with the desire to transcend everyday human nature in humour and performance. Kinetic sculpture through ice melting, sending cutlery and glasses crashing to the ground. Posters surreal in their depiction of humanity in disarray. A live performance by inanimate and animate objects to include the audience as part of the art. and … there is always another chance to buy cherries on the road to London despite their signs. - [CRIPPTYCH](https://orlyammon.com/cripptych/): CRIPTYCH 2025 Collaborative work with Sam Churchill Guntrip 2024. An experimental metaphysical practice performed over 3 days using only integral sound, with ice pieces, woollen sculptures, and a woollen performance around topics of neuro typical and neuro diverse creativity. Cripp is a manifesto by Sam in their Phd, it discusses disabilities, their philosophy, limitations and powers https://padlet.com/samchurchillguntrip/crip-journal-yie793jd4mg1j49a - [Manchester Contemporary 2024](https://orlyammon.com/3399-2/): Manchester Contemporary 2024 curated by Tonia Lu, Liam Jolly & Anna Harris of Creatve Kernow Asssociates. Showing in Manchester Central, Manchester with Cornish artists William Arnold, Bridgette Ashton, Sovay Berriman, Andrew Bryant, Emma Digerud-White, Ella Emanuele, Naomi Frears, Hugh Frost, Leila Galloway, Andrew Harper, Karen Howse, Delpha Hudson, Liam Jolly, Dean Knight, Alice Mahoney, Abigail Reynolds, Stuart Robinson, SHARP , Melanie Siddolph, Kate Walters & Melanie Young. - [My account](https://orlyammon.com/my-account/) - [Checkout](https://orlyammon.com/checkout/) - [Basket](https://orlyammon.com/basket/) - [YESArt](https://orlyammon.com/shop/) - [art mart 23](https://orlyammon.com/art-mart-23/): ART MART 2023 Non monetary Exchange for Art at the Fishfactory. Questions of value and worth, Penryn, Cornwall. With a dj set by Alice Mahoney & Sovay Berriman. - [flamm perf](https://orlyammon.com/flamm-perf/): FlammFringe Festival Redruth 2023 Performance & Installation Materials: sheeps wool, cars, people, hands - [mweeehh](https://orlyammon.com/mweeehh/): mweeehhhh 2023 performance in Plymouth for Soak Live Art materials: sheeps wool, wedding dress, gramophone - [Agile Structures](https://orlyammon.com/agile-structres/): Scrabble letters were randomly juggled to produce stream of consciousness poetry. - [Emberazada](https://orlyammon.com/2609-2/): EMBARAZADA performed for Redruth Albany Club Pop up Exhibition 2023 photography credit Danny Wood Partially Improvised Performance. Materials: Found frame of deer on site; red lipstick, mobile phone & UE2 Boom box. Metaphysical coping mechanisms to being a silent participant of a party: conversation, imitation, repetition, standing out and blending in. Embarazada is a play on the English ’embarrassment’ and the Spanish meaning of ‘pregnant’. Part of exhibition curated by Liam Jolly with Alice Mahoney, Naomi Frears, Dean Knight, Ro Robertson, Patrick Lowry, Sovay Berriman, Andy Webster & Sharp. - [meskla](https://orlyammon.com/meskla/): PERFORMANCE WORKSHOPS 2022 as part of Meskla|Breyon Drudh a Multiplatform project by Sovay Berriman on Art & Conversation about Contemporary Cornish Cultural identity & its relationship with extraction industries. Located in Redruth Market Hall and Ro Dama community farm. Performance is a means of communication and learning pre-speech and the basis of our identity. As babies the function of repetition and randomness, surreal in an adult, had this purpose. To interact! - [stop performing](https://orlyammon.com/stop-performing/): STOP PERFORMING 2022 was performed as part of a Contemporary Art discussion for Newquay Boardmasters hosted by Sovay Berriman with Graham Taylor and Simon Bayliss A performance inspired by a phrase my father used and which I never understood! and the site specificity of Newquay Boardmasters, a place of perfromers. Materials used: Lipstick, wedding dress, re-designed avocado coloured I submit to Shagrat t-shirt with mirrored writing and a placard. - [school run](https://orlyammon.com/fearside/): Fearside=Neutral/SCHOOL RUN/Deadlines 2021 residency at Back Lane West. This was an experiment in ideas and illustrates the infinite qulity of creativity once begun. Hence the multi-titular name. Fearside = neutral describes the triangle of my creative process when I push myself; fear on both sides…through to neutrality I was inspired by the paradoxes of the twice daily school run and how it equated to deadlines – being ready on time and the restriction and liberation that that allows. Ultimately I ended up liking the images of the street which was outside BLW and the illusion of reality that happens when a… - [MAGNOLIA CRUCIFIXION](https://orlyammon.com/magnolia-crucifixion/): Magnolia Crucifixion 2019 Voyeauristic attempt to be absorbed into/become a comfortable chintzy sofa so deleting subject/object distinction and commenting on the drama of banality. - [scraps](https://orlyammon.com/she-wears-the-crown/):  She wears the Crown 2023 installation for Falmouth StreetView a window exhibition. Materials: Pastry, scrap metal. Crimped like a crown and filled with scrap metal, the usual comfort of the Cornish pasty becomes something sharp and threatening, challenging what feels safe. I made this piece from leftover materials I didn’t like going to waste. The title, She Wears the Crown, came to me instinctively, and later took on deeper meaning after I received a racial slur on Facebook. It’s about strength, visibility, and turning something painful into something powerful. - [almost surely](https://orlyammon.com/almst-surely/): I stand voyeur,I sat long haul,Red textLet none taxi inHollow win.I’m here in nerve lane, alone. Grit late gloomShady exits exhumeRun til late yobs, sloosh hogs and their birdsTiled in allure, lymited smiles(her tank fills her). Wilted men in taut brain suits kry ‘Please venomous flag again’.Artists walk and melt:‘Dont rage art, glam, wild, rent artSet a goll to drive’.(Parkies failed, parking was the best they could do) Wen dark ranAnd stars smiled on deerSome lame brute sumo cracked the sheetsDimly peakedIn the wank room. Snow hand, song girl meaningLoose your tattleRev wellHelium noon is come.Now its gone gold, slightly reggose.Danse… - [AMOROUS](https://orlyammon.com/amorous/):   Amorous 2019 Chairs, antique bed linen, glass, dolphin skull Olfactory performance in darkened room on the un/attractive effect of male and female hormones.     - [BREAK US GENTLY](https://orlyammon.com/break-us-gently/): BREAK US GENTLY 2019  Dance performance for piece by artist collaborative Georgia Gendall, Liam Joly & Roseanna Martin at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall. - [COMMON DEMONINATOR](https://orlyammon.com/common-demoninator/): COMMON DEMONINATOR 2019 Paper installation for SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING? artists seminar at Enys House and the PLYMOUTH ART WEEKENDER 2019 £1000 in £5 notes scattered on the floor for 48 hours unmonitored. All responsibility for its safety acknowledged as lying with the artist.             - [MOTHER/MAIDEN](https://orlyammon.com/mother-maiden/): MOTHER/MAIDEN 2019 Berlin 46 Artists chosen from around the world respond to each others’ work through the post with a final exhibition in Berlin and catalogue. On posting my ice scuplture wrapped in lambswool to keep it whole.. it melted (face to head emoji) so Marcus the curator kindly offered to exhibit it as a broken teacup on the floor underneath an empty frame. mother/maiden is a mythologically psychoanalytical transition from unwhole to intact!   - [LA JETEE](https://orlyammon.com/la-jetee/): La Jeteé 2017 Installation for FUTURE IMPERFECT Symposium at Plymouth University inspired by the Chris Marker film which has only one moving image in a run of stills. The Pier, La Jeteé, at the edge of the sea is central to the films revolving story. - [FAKE Bed](https://orlyammon.com/fake-bed/): FAKE ART 2018: main photograph Alice Mahoney Response to a ‘faked’ exhibition organised and curated by Ron Ford. Tracey Emin’s Bed in reproduction A4 photocopied pages   - [GREY AREAS](https://orlyammon.com/let-me-be-your-symphony/): Grey Areas 2018  A 3 day experimental performance for the PLYMOUTH ART WEEKENDER 2018 highlighting the areas of human response to that which is not explicitly covered by legislation, art or grass.         - [HERM/APHRODITE](https://orlyammon.com/love-triangle-2/): Herm/Aphrodite the Akamas, Cyprus 2018 a performance piece on transitioning across gender using the symbolism of mythology materials: ice, pomegranate seeds, printed cloth on paper, rosemary bushes, candles, found rams skull, printed naked male torso t-shirt and torch as phallus. accomplished with the STEP travel grant and performed on the island of Cyprus for the MADE OF WALKING Milena principle global community event. - [Works](https://orlyammon.com/work/): [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”7″ gal_title=”works3″]   - [If Everything is F**cked eventually it will give birth](https://orlyammon.com/everything-is-fcked/): If Everything is F**cked eventually it will give birth 2017 Photocopied pages and envelopes of cloth, crab shells, seaweed, treacle spilled over paper, male and female performers in wetsuits, scanner/printer. Performance and installation made in response to a series of talks by Fred McVittie on the subject Everything is F**cked Inspired by the creative process that is making artwork. Subverting it by referencing the office and photocopying on A4 sheets. Beneath the waves of birthed creativity, the paper spills over the male head. he is drowned, covered; her facsimilied head reproduced over his real one. Ambivalence, ambiguity cross gendering: an avalanche… - [I Want to be Loved by You](https://orlyammon.com/i-want-to-be-loved-by-you/): I Want to be Loved by You Berlin 2017 Interactive Performance. Participators from Berlin’s general public were first kissed then serenaded by the bird. Public and police performed during the process of revealing vulnerability - [birtha 2020](https://orlyammon.com/birtha-2020/): WARNING STROBE LIGHTING MAY AFFECT THOSE WITH PHOTOSENSITIVITY birtha 2020 an interpretative subliminal performance inspired by Jean Rhys’ s post colonial novel Wide Saragossa Sea which re-characterised the role of Bertha, Jane Eyre’ s madwoman in the attic. - [Berlin workshop](https://orlyammon.com/berlin-workshop/): Marathon Workshop Berlin 2017 Applied and accepted to a two week discovery and development of visual and physical performance, cathartic, emotional and unexpected. Culminating in a live performance weekend mini festival for which I performed the piece I WANT TO BE LOVED BY YOU! - [Le Petite Mort](https://orlyammon.com/le-petite-mort/):   Le Petite Mort 2016 (the little death)   Participatory experimental art performance on the eros of making creations - [Day & Night](https://orlyammon.com/untitled/): Night & Day 2013 Participatory 3 part performance over an evening, morning and afternoon about motherhood, housewifery, rage and transformation. Materials: glass, mirrors, moulinex, sand, table and ground jade - [Cafe Muller](https://orlyammon.com/cafe-muller/): Café Müller 2014; Dance performance with Maphew based on a Pina Bauch choreography using experimental Leftbank filming techniques. Chairs, reversed monocular, dripping water on hobtop, and baby monitor. - [Epiphora](https://orlyammon.com/epiphora/): Epiphora 2015 Ephiphora is a medical eye condition where the patient cannot stop their tears   - [Is Love](https://orlyammon.com/is-love/):     Is Love 2014    All I want Is Love, AlI I need Is Love, All I greed Is Love, All that is agreed IS LOVE - [Love Story](https://orlyammon.com/love-story/): Love Story 2014;  desk, chair, business cards, baby monitor, hostes dress & mint tea     - [Some things are Better Left Unsaid](https://orlyammon.com/absofi/): Some things are best left unsaid 2015    Ryan Gander said every artist has to delude themselves in order to make work. The irony of this piece is that it was ever made at all.       - [Mother Artist Housewife](https://orlyammon.com/sartori-2/): SARTORI/MOTHER,ARTIST, HOUSEWIFE 2014   Performed inside the James Turrell’s ‘Skyscape’ at Tremenheere Sculpture Garden; sewing machine, business cards, chalk, beetroot, chopping board, knife, charcoal, photocopied paper, stones, ribbon, sugar, Originating from an intention of aural destruction to the peace and harmony of Turrell’s piece an autobiography evolved raising questions on the tensions between the way in which we present ourselves and whom we think we actually are. Sartori is a play on words illustrating the contradictions between dressing up (sartorial) and Eastern ideals of enlightenment (Satori).   - [game of consequences](https://orlyammon.com/goc/): Game Of Consequences 2015 curated by Stacey Guthrie & Janet McKewan A canvas was circulated between 12 artists. My response was to make a sail for an improvised raft. Final exhibition was held at the Exchange, Penzance - [CV](https://orlyammon.com/cv/):   2026 MEANINGLESS TRANSACTIONS at FLAMM art festival in Bodmin iniated by Tonia Lui, Anna Harris & Liam Jolly. And at Auction House 2025  LAST CHANCE  painting & installation collaboration with Ros Bason at Auction House 2024 Manchester Contemporary  Wolf howling Performance with Liam Jolly, Tonia Lu, Melanie Siddolph, Alice Mahoney, Andrew Bryant at Manchester Central 2024 Cripptych Experimental Multi-faceted performance over 3 days in collaboration with Sam Churchill-Guntrip and Dominic Hallgate 2023 ARTMART non monetary exchange for art at Fishfactory, Penryn, Cornwall 2023  Flammfringe Redruth performance and installation with sheeps wool, people, cars & hands. Arts festival Redruth 2023 Mweeeehhhhhh EXPERIMENTAL WOOL… - [front page](https://orlyammon.com/) - [About](https://orlyammon.com/about/): I am a painter, performer, and installation artist creating work that responds to the environments I inhabit. Each piece is shaped by context: physical, mental, and practical constraints, especially time. I work with materials and tools ranging from the familiar to the obscure in order to locate the everyday which may be sublime. Language, humour and systems of meaning run through my practice; ambiguity is a method as much as an outcome. Meaning is not fixed. What the work becomes is inseparable from the imagination of the viewer. ## Products - [1 SUBSCRIPTION](https://orlyammon.com/product/1-subscription/): Wouldn't you like to receive post, actual post. To feel the touch of your name on a piece of post and possibly reciprocate. Is AI the end of humanity? Lets start the Luddite revolution. 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I cannot explain what I see or even what I do, partly because that is the attraction - the impossibility of ever knowing what a dog or a table knows.     - [separation](https://orlyammon.com/product/i-tried-to-climb-into-you/): I make paintings for those who crave escape from the everyday and the high definition and smartness of technology. Years of lived experience, working in interior design and travelling has given me a rich visual vocabulary. I am exhibited through a local gallery and performed internationally. I Climb into You Originally began as a painting about the desire to be a part of the one you love. Some say it looks like a blowjob and which makes me laugh and happy if an erotic element is perceived. The vulnerability of the piece is what strikes me, it was a raw and impassioned response to feelings at the time.           - [Aaaaaarggghh Woman](https://orlyammon.com/product/aaaaaarggghh-woman/): Semi-figurative oil paintings for those who crave escape from technology and increasing complexity. In a culture obsessed with certainty, optimisation, and endless self-definition, I prefer the wobble. The paintings celebrate ambiguity, humour, vulnerability, and the possibility that not knowing may be closer to the truth than logic ever is. - [Visage II 2025](https://orlyammon.com/product/visage/): A medusa of a piece, scrawled and lined and worked in graphite and chalk. I have depicted my humanity, a girl/adult a woman close up, scarred but surviving. - [Self Portrait](https://orlyammon.com/product/self-portrait/): The colours and softness of the chalk compare with the hard certainty of the graphite line.It is always a battle for me to get the image. Michaelangelo said the piece is already there, its just a matter of finding it. In the end it is the hand, the body, a universal image we all share, that reveals itself. ## Optional - [Agent (MCP protocol)](websites-agents.hostinger.com/orlyammon.com/mcp) [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)