“The distance between the art world and the real world can be almost nothing” - David Blamey
This body of work was produced for the National College of Art and Designs graduate show in 2008. The work grew from multiple ambiguous starting points; bits of flippant advice received by the artist from various people throughout the year, snippets of conversation over heard on the bus, fleeting moments and song lyrics among other things. The majority of the pieces were constructed from the objects that were debris from the artists daily activities over her final year in college.
The primary concern of the work was to deconstruct and question what the artist herself, and in turn the viewer, defined as “art”. In tandem with this there was an interest in the process of looking, from the perspective of what is noticed by people as they rush about their daily lives and also the amount of time a viewer spent engaging with the exhibition and the subsequent effects this had on their reaction to the work.
This body of work was produced for the National College of Art and Designs graduate show in 2008. The work grew from multiple ambiguous starting points; bits of flippant advice received by the artist from various people throughout the year, snippets of conversation over heard on the bus, fleeting moments and song lyrics among other things. The majority of the pieces were constructed from the objects that were debris from the artists daily activities over her final year in college.
The primary concern of the work was to deconstruct and question what the artist herself, and in turn the viewer, defined as “art”. In tandem with this there was an interest in the process of looking, from the perspective of what is noticed by people as they rush about their daily lives and also the amount of time a viewer spent engaging with the exhibition and the subsequent effects this had on their reaction to the work.