My project at Castle Market is inspired by the fact that Castle Market sits on the remains of Sheffield Castle going back to about 1100. Research into its history has been a starting point for this residency. The work involves a variety of papier-mache shapes with a finishing layer of newspaper text in specific font and size.
I am curious about the history and the architecture/shapes of a place. I am interested in making visible what is already there, make it more experiencable.
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Castel Market Residency , installation view, 2011 |
The outcome was very much led by the characteristics of the stiffness of the wire and the dried papier-mache. At the start it was unclear which part of my interest in the castle's history and the shapes around me would be reflected in this work until I had learnt about the qualities of the individual elements and the dynamics between them. The different shapes are suggestions of what they could be rather than something specific. Depending on how they are arranged and what imagination and expereince the viewer brings to them, there are different associations to them.
Visitors have been reminded of: armour, tin shapes, skyline, findings when excavating castles, broken limbs, paper train/castle train, industria remnants, shapes around the market etc. |
