During last weeks tutorials, three other artists were suggested to me by tutors. The first is a really interesting mixed media artist called Anne Wilson. Traditional textile techniques such as lacemaking, crochet and knitting and key to her practice. These feminine activities which are executed in unexpected ways to create powerful, complex and delicate forms. Wilson uses sound, glass, video and collaborative practices, rather than simply being defined by one way of making. I really like this image but perhaps the most interesting part is the film that she made which bring loose threads and pins alive. I really want to try and recreate something like that next year in Art, a way to extend my investigation into the vulnerability of thread!
Chiharu Shioto was the next artist recommended, and once again I find myself regretting the fact that I didn't goes to the Lost in Lace exhibition in Birmingham last year. In her installations Shioto creates chaotic webs with yarn that takes you on a journey around the gallery space in which personal objects are cocooned. Personal experience is central to Shiot's work. in earlier work she asked people to donate footwear with memories attached resulting in thousands of shoes, many of which had belonged to loved ones who had died. A taut red thread was attached to the shoe, a symbol of the path through life as well as the impact of journeys taken.
Again, this fascination with objects, memories and the extraordinary change that occurs when the owner of the item is dead. (Remember, Cornelia Parker and Tilda Swinton, The Matbe, 1995). This symbolic use of imagery is of huge interest to me and I do find it hard move on from this fascination. But at least the way I use this subject is evolving and moving towards the positives: whilst holding on to memories, I am finding new doors that are opening.
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Dialogue from DNA, 2011
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| Walking in My Mind |
See www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/24/dist-chiharuu-shiota-installation
The third artist was Georgie Meadows who is an occupational therapist as well as artist who crafts uniquely affecting and compassionate portraits translating line drawings of people she knows or who she has cared for. This feels very relevant to me: can I use art and link it to role as 'Midwife' or will I just want to keep the two separate. I think already I know the answer: I love working with people and this is showing in my compulsion to take photos of people in the street going about their daily routines. I also have to work on projects that contain lots of personal issues so the two seem inexplicably entwined. Below is a piece of Meadows work which currently on show at the RUH, Bath...
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| The Man With Two Ties |
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