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I am starting a new project, From Absorb to Zoom: An Alphabet of Actions in the Women’s Art Library. I have received an Arts Council England Grant for the Arts for my first project with a UK archive, the Women’s Art Library, housed at Goldsmiths College in London. From Absorb to Zoom will result in a site-specific print installation to be exhibited in March 2015 on the Goldsmiths campus.

The Women’s Art Library started as an artist-led initiative to enhance public knowledge of the practice, impact and achievement of women in the visual arts. It houses unique documentation of women artists’ works, mainly from the 1970’s through the 1990’s. My installation will take inspiration from archived slides, artists’ books, magazines, monographs and posters.

Through my research, print installation and this project blog, I will address the under-representation of women in art history and highlight this historically important, but underutilized resource. The blog will feature recent works by selected artists with documentation in the Women’s Art Library, to virtually update the archive.

I have received in-kind support from my other project partner, the Thames Barrier Print Studio, where I will be making the work for the installation. And I will be raising the last portion of my budget with a crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter.

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In tandem with my print project, From Absorb to Zoom: An Alphabet of Actions in the Women’s Art Library, I am inviting selected artists with documentation in the WAL archive to send me images of recent work to feature on this project blog.

Oona Grimes works with books, print and mixed media. Her show, Chapter Two, is on view at Danielle Arnaud in London, from 8 November to 14 December, 2014.

the dress me up: 2013, 75.5cm x 168cm, spray paint on paper on foamex

I love the way Grimes describes her practice:

Oona Grimes is a compulsive draw-er, scribbler and storyteller. Working with books and multiples, etching and mixed-media, she embraces redundant print process; re-cycling obsolete materials and last of stock.

Grimes conjures narratives subverted by the mistranslation of myth, gossip and verse. Language is re-calibrated, signposts are written over; it is a universe of vile deeds and mysterious contracts. William Bligh, Fred West, John Dee and Carroll’s Alice rub shoulders in cocktail distillations of individual and collective memory.

slightly foxed: 2014, 74.5cm x 111cm, spray paint on paper on di-bond

supreme pancake: 2013, 74.5cm x 111cm, spray paint on paper on di-bond

natural puff: 2014, 74.5cm x 111cm, spray paint on paper on di-bond

Recent works take the form of an exploded book unyoked from a single narrative. In a land without signposts, strange playful figures and alien text toy with our need to decode and translate. Not non-sense but an alternate order which warps time and memory, like fractal geometries of chaos.

foliaduh: 2013, 74.5cm x 111cm, spray paint on paper on di-bond

Oona Grimes: http://oonagrimes.com

To learn more about the Women’s Art Library:
http://www.gold.ac.uk/make/

To support From Absorb to Zoom on Kickstarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/650466689/an-art-project-celebrating-the-womens-art-library

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The KickStarter campaign for my project with the Women’s Art Library in London is now live!

From Absorb to Zoom: An Alphabet of Actions in the Women’s Art Library is a site-specific collaborative print installation I will create with the Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths College. My installation, in March 2015, will take inspiration from archived slides, artists’ books, magazines, monographs and posters and will be installed in two locations on the Goldsmiths’ campus.

In conjunction with my research, I will post a blog featuring recent works by artists with documentation in the Women’s Art Library to virtually update the archive. The project is supported by Arts Council England.

You can learn more about the project and support the campaign at this link:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/650466689/an-art-project-celebrating-the-womens-art-library

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Anne Krinsky

Anne Krinsky is a London-based artist, born in the US. She works with paint, print, photography and video. Research underpins her practice and she has made installations in response to archived collections in the US, UK and India. She exhibited her first project with a UK archive, From Absorb to Zoom: An Alphabet of Actions in the Women’s Art Library, at Goldsmiths University of London, in 2015. The artist’s multi-year project, Tide Line Thames, investigated the river and its architectural structures between high and low tide lines, for London’s Totally Thames. Tide Line Thames culminated in 2017 with a video installation in the Brunel Museum Thames Tunnel Shaft and with Tropical Thames, a digital print installation commissioned by Canary Wharf Arts in Crossrail Place Roof Garden. The artist says, “Watching the Thames erode metal, wood and stone, led me to think about coastal communities and intertidal habitats at risk from climate change-induced sea level rise. Since 2018, I have been working on an international project about vulnerable wetlands and climate change.” Her current research on fragile South Coast wetlands culminates in two exhibitions in Worthing. Anne Krinsky: Wetlands / Shifting Shorelines, an outdoor exhibition on the Worthing Seafront Promenade, is on view from 29 October 2021 through late April 2022. It leads up to – and will run in tandem with her exhibition, Anne Krinsky: Fugitive, at the Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, on view from 5 February - 1 May 2022. Anne Krinsky is the recipient of several grants, including an Artists International Development Fund Grant, two Grants for the Arts from Arts Council England and an a-n Artist Bursary. The British Museum, Boston Public Library, American collector Graham Gund and U.K. charity, Paintings in Hospitals, have purchased her works, as have numerous corporate and private collectors on both sides of the Atlantic. She has been awarded residencies at METAL, Chalkwell, UK; Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain; Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY; Sanskriti Foundation, Delhi, India; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA; and Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany, among others. www.annekrinsky.com

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Anne Krinsky: From Absorb to Zoom

The Virtual Archive: Oona Grimes

Kickstarter Campaign with the Womens’ Art Library

Anne Krinsky