On Saturday I visited the Eva Rothschild exhibition at New Art Gallery Walsall with the Artist Teacher crew. We then visited the gallery studio for a workshop with the current artist in residence, Chloe Ashley, whose work you can see here. Chloe is an analogue photographer who presents her work in sculptural ways rather than in a traditional framed format.
Chloe’s work also reminded me of a body of work called The Last Silence by Sandra Meech, and represents the artist’s experience of the silence, the cracks in the ice and sound ‘marks’ whilst out walking on Baker Lake in Canada. You can visit her website here.
I felt drawn to both of these artists’ work; Chloe’s because I am interested in photography, and altering, overlaying and colouring images of my own work and ideas; Sandra’s because of her representation of sound and physicality, and her limited use of colour – something I have been exploring in my own search for my own practice. Both artists interest me because of their sculptural, 3D presentation of 2D pieces.
So I have spent the weekend sitting on my living room floor surrounded by strips and pieces of my torn up intuitive mark-making pieces, making them into tubes of varying sizes. (Don’t ask me why tubes; I followed my intuition). Some of them are made from two seperate pieces of work; some of them are tubes within tubes; one of them doesn’t stand up very well by itself. I tried different ways of securing them into tube shapes, but after a couple of setbacks I settled for stapling them or pinning them with dressmaker’s pins. I’ve made apertures in the tubes and lit them from inside. I’ve written some of my thoughts and ideas on them.
And that’s where I am now. Another twist to the tale. I’m still not sure where this journey is headed, although I’m pleased with the sculptural pieces made from my drawings. I’m trying things out, following my impulses, seeing where it takes me.
