Moribund Mural (Creeper's Delight), 2006 salt dough, size variable |
‘Not interested if it doesn't hang on a wall’ seem to be my
thinking at the moment. I’m a
traitor to my profession! Sorting out images of wall pieces I have made in the last few years and
uploading them on new pages on my website could have contributed to this. Another reason might be my
recent visit to the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane to see the Contemporary Australia: Women exhibition, where a great number of large scale installations
commissioned by the museum were relying on wall space. In their upstairs galleries, a top class display of traditional and contemporary dilly bags and bicornual baskets
hang on the walls, their open woven structures casting delicate and
intricate sideway shadows. How can
anyone in their right mind knock the sanctity of the white walled gallery space?
Yesterday I went to the opening of Collect, London’s
contemporary art fair for contemporary objects and most of the works in their curated project space was wall
based. I was also really drawn to displays at Dutch Galerie Ra and Galerie Marzee, and last but not least Caroline Andrin’s works at the Belgian gallery WCC-BF, one of which I am the proud owner
of since then. Andrin’s latest series of works consist of animal
trophy like ceramic pieces, made using leather gloves as moulds. The results are gorgeously dark,
humorous and playful wall pieces. So, well done Benelux! Then again, I might be biased given I was born and raised in the
lowlands myself.
Praising wall displays as I have, I have to set the
record straight by saying how spectacular Raw Craft was, an exhibition within
Collect curated by the Crafts Council with designer Michael Marriott and Brent
Dzekciorius, head of retail operations at auction house Phillips de Pury &
Company. Showcasing contemporary
furniture, the works were quite naturally floor standing. Still, am curious to see how the show would have looked had
the curators laid their hands on a few shaker hooks...
Sweet Graffiti / Big Bang, 2007 royal icing, sweet, hundreds and thousands, size variable (detail) |
Knitting Piece #13 (South Hill Park), 2006 wool, 3.5m x 3.5m |
Molecule #1 (bobbin lace), 2009 found image, card, thread, pins on foam |
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