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Marbles, 1998
Finding the Golden Fly, 1998
Glisten, 1998
Plummet (Tile), 2004
Plummet, 2004
Swarm, 2004
Out of Site
Works are made to exist outside of a gallery space yet are within the context of a gallery complex - public places, accessible and familiar but with remote and secretive spaces. The works attempt to re-enchant a municipal space and to draw attention to seemingly familiar fixtures.
Plummet is a work that developed to show with Glow at the Glynn Vivian Gallery Swansea in 2001. The room in which I was to place the gilded light bulbs had a beautiful parquet floor; several of the blocks were already loose.
The loose blocks were replaced with cast glass ones that had been gilded on the underneath. The process of casting into sand created a textured underneath that rippled with small troughs and dents that looked like the sea.
Glow cut through the physical space of the room creating a field that hung in mid air allowing just enough room to walk around its sides. Plummet was to draw our attention to the floor and to understand that the surface upon which we walk is not as it seems.
The floor in this instance is also part of the ceiling for the room below. The clear glass illustrates the physical thickness of the immediate layer. Being see-through it also opens the mind to consider what lies beneath the surfaces we take for granted. We habitually treat aspects of the world in a two dimensional manner, filtering out and disseminating vast quantities of visual material quite unconsciously. Our minds take short cuts and we pass through the spaces in our world unheeding of the layers and strata and number of other components that we need, take for granted but are hidden from view. Networks of cables, wires, ducts, tubes, rubble, building materials.
Arts Council support enabled me to take this idea further and to expand the work to lead from the room in which I made Glow to link other areas of the upper gallery space.
At the same time and with the same Capacity Build Grant a work Sea of Glass was commissioned. This time 19mm clear float glass has been cut and finished and laid as parquet a solid glass floor that sits upon a surface. This work will form part of the coming solo exhibition at Oriel Davies in October 2006.
Sea of Glass and Plummet were made possible with the financial support of the Arts Council of Wales
