- Venue
- Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery
- Starts
- Saturday, October 1, 2011
- Ends
- Sunday, November 27, 2011
- Address
- Castle Street, Carlisle, CA3 8TP.
- Location
- North West England
Jamie Shovlin is an artist with an international reputation for producing highly researched and meticulously constructed works which often take the form of fictional archives. He first came to public attention in 2004 with The Naomi V Jelish Archive, which tells the story of a twelve year old prodigy who disappeared in 1991 in mysterious circumstances. Thy Will be Done is a major exhibition which combines objects from Tullie House’s diverse collections with new and existing work by Jamie Shovlin. It presents a collaborative investigation between artist and museum into the representation of past and living cultures through the objects we collect, conserve and exhibit – highlighting the role of memory and subjectivity in the stories they are used to tell. Challenging the notion of the museum as a fixed vantage point from which history is viewed, the exhibition reveals the institution’s internal processes – presenting items in the packaging in which they entered the museum or are stored, and showing curators accessioning, documenting and labelling objects within the exhibition space. Shovlin uncovers the practices artist and institution share, revealing the stages of research and editing that go into the production of his own work. Jamie Shovlin is represented by Haunch of Venison, London. Admission Free
