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| STATEMENT
for the "Locus" Exhibition Asagaya College |
Painting Title: Letters from Yorkshire
Dimensions: 6ftx6ftx 2ins deep
Medium: Oil on Canvas
My recent work is exploring issues of memory and place. They
stem from an autobiographical reference point in which I use
"found images" from films and textiles and text to fabricate
moments of my past. The location of these paintings is a re-imagined
past. The paintings seek to explore the fragmentary nature
of memories and the struggle to grasp them. The play between
personal memory and cultural memory is a tension in my work
which I access through identification with various films and
film stars. The film I have referenced in this work is the
1939 film Wuthering Heights and the text comes from Charlotte
Bronte's letters.
The textile pattern is used as a decorative painted ground.
The ground is covered with a white paint. I then transcribe
the film imagery into the white paint in order to create a
decorative surface evocative of crochet, lace making or whitework,
a reminder of the handcrafted work of women. The spatial ambiguity
of the paintings' surface creates a visual and physical metaphor
for how memory cannot be wholly grasped or reconstituted,
that it merely oscillates between past and present, the seen
and unseen, the known and the supposed. |
| RECENT
EXHIBITIONS |
| 2005 |
Solo show -
Huddersfield Art Gallery
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| 2004-5 |
forthcoming exhibition for the
Norwich Gallery
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| 2004/5 |
forthcoming
exhibition Huddersfield Art Gallery |
| 2004 |
forthcoming Solo exhibition ,
Sheffield University |
| 2003 |
Interim Residency
show EVA Gallery, Kirklees |
2003 |
Group Show - Norwich Fringe |
| 2002 |
Solo show -
Standpoint Gallery, London
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| 2002 |
Remnants - Solo show - Otter
Gallery, University College Chichester |
| 2002 |
Selected Exhibition
of Paintings at Elm Hill Contemporary Arts for Fringe Festival |
| 2001 |
Presences/Absences - Norwich
Gallery solo show
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| 2001 |
Eastern Open, Kings Lynn
Arts Centre
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| 2000 |
Fabrications exhibition toured to - Worcester
City Art Gallery |
| 1999 |
Guest Curator of Fabrications
- Painting and the Decorative
group show featuring 8 artists (Rosa Lee, Jo Bruton, Barbara
Howey, Henna Nadeem, Maggie Ayliffe, David Mabb, Jacqueline
Poncelet, Sadie Murdoch) - Norwich Gallery
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| 1999 |
Group show - Elm Hill Contemporary Art ,
Norwich |
| 1998 |
Open exhibition at Kettle's
Yard - Cambridge
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1997 |
Virtue and Vulgarity - Group Show, Reading
University |
| RECENT
PUBLICATIONS
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| 2004 |
Critical Autobiography
and Painting Practice - Barbara Howey
Narrative Memory and Identity / Pub. University of Huddersfield
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| 2002 |
Self/Painting Practice/Social
Practice - Journal of Visual Arts Practice ?
text by Barbara Howey |
| 2001 |
The Guardian
-The Guide Presences/Absences text by Robert Clark
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| 2001 |
Catalogue for Presences /Absences
exhibition - solo show at Norwich Gallery text by Rosemary
Betterton |
| 1999 |
Catalogue for
Fabrications exhibition NSAD
texts: Barbara Howey and Rebecca Fortnum |
1998 |
Article for Cloth publication
NSAD
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| 1998 |
Artists statement
in Catalogue for Kettle's Yard Open
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| CONFERENCES/
ARTISTS FORUMS/SYMPOSIUMS |
| 2004 |
Review Panel
- Research into Practice Conference, Univ. of Hertfordshire |
| 2003 |
Speaker at Conference at the
University of Huddersfield: Narrative, Memory and Identity
- Theoretical and Methodological Issues |
| 2002 |
East discourse
3, Norwich Gallery
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| 2001 |
Speaker at Conference at the
University of Plymouth in Exeter -The Enactment of Thinking
- Creative Practice Research Degrees |
| 2000 |
Invited Speaker
at a symposium at Reading University Dept. of fine Art.
Other speaker: Lynne Segal - Why Feminism?
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1999 |
Organised an Artists forum for
Fabrications exhibition Nov. 1999.
Speakers: Sadie Murdoch, Henna Nadeem, Jacqueline Poncelet,
Barbara Howey, Maggie Ayliffe, Rebecca Fortnum, David Mabb
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| 1998 |
Speaker at
Cloth Conference N.S.A.D.
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| 1994 |
Speaker at a symposium with Rebecca
Fortnum, Clare Jarrett and Heather Allen, King of Hearts Gallery,
Norwich |
| AWARDS |
| 2003/4 |
Artist in Residence
University of Huddersfield
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| 1991-1992 |
British Academy Award
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