Art Vaults exhibition - Summer 2007
I’m delighted to be taking part in this summer’s Art Vaults exhibition in Southampton, curated by the arts organisation a space. Each year the medieval vaults in Southampton are open to host an exhibition to a selection of artists over the summer weekends.
I will be exhibiting A Map of the Ocean Between My Sister & Me for the first time. Instead of displaying my piece in a vault the curator suggested I have mine in the Bargate Monument Gallery http://www.bargategallery.org/. I went to see the space the other weekend and see why they felt it would work better there, it’s just lovely. So, I’m so excited!
Exhibition runs from 12th July to September 30th 2007
More about my work ...
A Map of the Ocean Between My Sister & Me
This is an installation of a collective source of water that maps the ocean between my house in London to my sister’s in NY. The piece is made up of around 50 filled, small, transparent, glass and plastic containers and text that describes where and when the water was collected. From restroom sinks, Adirondack streams, table water, and various others the work documents my four-day journey to arrive at my sister’s with fragments of the thing that separates us geographically, the ocean.
The samples of water will be displayed chronologically on a lightbox table with their details next to each, printed on acetate in handwritten text, all within a glass display case. The artwork establishes a connection with museology. Like an archaeological discovery the 50 bottles appear as artefacts in the long glass case. However, there is a poetic banality to the words that differs to the usual description of an object in a museum and gives the feeling of an entry in a person’s diary.
I will be exhibiting A Map of the Ocean Between My Sister & Me for the first time. Instead of displaying my piece in a vault the curator suggested I have mine in the Bargate Monument Gallery http://www.bargategallery.org/. I went to see the space the other weekend and see why they felt it would work better there, it’s just lovely. So, I’m so excited!
Exhibition runs from 12th July to September 30th 2007
More about my work ...
A Map of the Ocean Between My Sister & Me
This is an installation of a collective source of water that maps the ocean between my house in London to my sister’s in NY. The piece is made up of around 50 filled, small, transparent, glass and plastic containers and text that describes where and when the water was collected. From restroom sinks, Adirondack streams, table water, and various others the work documents my four-day journey to arrive at my sister’s with fragments of the thing that separates us geographically, the ocean.
The samples of water will be displayed chronologically on a lightbox table with their details next to each, printed on acetate in handwritten text, all within a glass display case. The artwork establishes a connection with museology. Like an archaeological discovery the 50 bottles appear as artefacts in the long glass case. However, there is a poetic banality to the words that differs to the usual description of an object in a museum and gives the feeling of an entry in a person’s diary.
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