Keeping It Going

Further images from group show ‘Bread and Jam’ in Brockley, London, which ended last week. The show featured work of 11 artists in a private, soon to be renovated house. I spent a couple of hours, wandering from room to room, taking photos of things that caught my eye. Some patterns have emerged …

White. From no 52, July 2015.

Details from work by Kate Murdoch, Alison Hand & Elizabeth Porter (clockwise l-r)

From Bread and Roses to Bread and Jam …

From Bread and Roses, an ongoing personal project created in response to the 2015 election result, to a group show, Bread and Jam in a private, soon to be renovated home in Brockley, London – it’s been a productive few weeks, creatively.

The Bread and Jam show ended last Sunday, July 26th on what would have been my Nana’s 107th birthday. I’ve barely had time to acknowledge the date, let alone find the time to complete the piece of work I was inspired to make in response to the 5th anniversary of my Nana’s death. Anniversaries have always been important to me and I’m looking forward to finding time to be in the studio some day soon so that I can complete this particular piece of work, a homage to my late Nana – Five Summers Without You.

Being a part of the 11 strong group of artists participating in the Bread and Jam exhibition proved to be a really positive experience for me. Being actively encouraged to spend time in the house and to respond to our chosen space in any way we wanted, meant an opportunity for the invited artists to totally immerse themselves in their work and surroundings if they so wished. I found it completely liberating to have physical space in which to present my work, especially following my recent move from a studio where I had quite literally, boxed myself in and had no space in which to manoeuvre.

On the basis that there’s so much to say that it’s almost impossible to know where to start, I’m adding a few of my favourite images I took of the show – some close ups & details of my own and other artist’s work and the similarities, common threads, cross overs running through it. And some images capturing the fabric of the house itself – the patina on the walls, weathered, well-worn lino, water stains and so on. More will emerge, I’m sure.

George Osborne’s benefit cuts set to make 13 million families ‘significantly worse off.’  Independent, July 9th 2015.

‘Bread and Roses’ is showing increasing signs of neglect, mirroring the harsh austerity measures imposed by the Tory government since the General Election. These images have been documented over the past few weeks since the Tory’s Election victory in May, 2015. Click on the link below to read more about how the ‘Bread and Roses’ project has developed:

http://www.katemurdochartist.com/latest.html