The Great Escape proposal 2022
Spacecraft Project space will be used from the Tuesday 15th until Tuesday 29th November, which includes the set-up and take down time. The exhibition will be open to the public from Saturday 19th to Saturday 26th of November with an opening event Fri 18th November at 6pm. There will be a selection of up to 30 works, prints, paintings and collages, primarily from 2019 to 2022.
A major element in the exhibition will be a 240 x 360 x 120 cm wall (height x width x depth) which will be constructed in the space, from MDF and wood before the opening, but worked on as a collage/diary surface during the course of the show. I will be present to facilitate and discuss my work with the audience, as I add elements to the wall, treating it as an extension of my studio space and practice.
There will be a sound piece, commissioned from Robbie Murphy, as another means of altering and questioning the viewers engagement with the nature of the exhibition and the expectation of the white gallery space. The piece will accompany the opening and will play intermittently over the course of the exhibition.
The wall, will eventually be covered in posters from previous exhibitions of mine, giclee prints of drawings from my college years until present, old print proofs. It is my intention that the wall will be an ongoing piece, which can be taken apart and reassembled in other exhibition venues, interacted with and added to, a record of a life lived and people met. The wall as a physical presence, a potential barrier or point of focus and reference, creating context and facilitating memory. The individual and the collective, and the ever-changing nature of the physical and imaginative environment.