Library Installation

As per my blog from 04 May, we've had the chance to create extra work for a Library Installation and today was the day.

Myself, Audit Chaos and Sarah Jacques (Tutor) took part in the installation:


Sarah Jacques installation:


Audit Chaos installation:


My installation:


I couldn't sit in the beanbag and look at my work, I knew I would find it too emotional, but i'm happy.

Territories and Home Exhibition, Gallery 3 - Week 12

Thursday/Friday

Today was setting up at Gallery 3, Ipswich Town Hall, Recreate. Typically it rained hard, perfect for us taking all artwork over on foot, especially when I realised I'd forgotten something in the car!  

Setup was fine, chose spot by the window for the sunlight to go through my carbon prints.

Popped back Friday morning to add in my notebook, to find all the work we'd put up outside on the stairwell and up steps had been taken down and laid in Gallery 3.  Not a great start, but carry on.

My work reflects the Silence of the Town Hall, the unseen and unheard, cracks in surfaces; walls, paintings or the floor.

How many seats graced this seat?

Thousands of visitors have traversed the steps since the 1868 opening, but how many of them looked down and noticed their effect on the surfaces? I have explored in print and projection and transposed the oil painting cracks into and onto plaster.

Do you see the shadows and light?
What happens to the shadows when the sun is gone?
Does they just fade away?

Studio Studies - Week 12

All our other work created in Studio Studies and not relevant to Town Hall Recreate, Drawing Assessment or St Clements Church was to be exhibited for assessment in the Level 4 room.





A huge relief to get it all set-up.

Studio Studies - Week 11

I'm busy preparing for the assessment this week, to be held in St Clement's Church.

We're setting up on the Tuesday 7th May and having an exhibition for friends and family 4-5.00pm.



I'm hoping my work will still be on display for the Thursday 8th May evening public meeting from 7pm.

I've also got work hanging in the UCS Waterfront foyer:



Work also to be in the Town Hall, Gallery Three from Thursday 8th May, some drawings, photos, printwork and a video about the passage of thousands of feet that the floor has seen and whether many of them noticed what was beneath their feet.


Some of my prints are also on the wall on the Art Block top floor corridor:



Work to be exhibited in Prettys on 21st May.

Library Project - Week 11

I am ready to present my Library Project, which will now happen on 13th May. I'm really looking forward to being able to present it finally, although I'm slightly nervous, because I think it will be quite emotional for me.

Tracy Emin's Tent really strikes a chord with what I'm doing, but it's from me.




This is the cabin I was initially trying to recreate:



Start of my model being made:



Measurements being taken for the full scale 'cabin':



On the tape across the doorway, which I deliberately left up as long as possible, I wrote "Level 4 Narnia . . . beware of lions!"

The site location in the library I chose for the light and particularly sunlight there:



The macquette itself:


Books from childhood: