Dimensions: 130cm x 90cm x 110cm
Materials: dressing table mirrors, crystal-cut vases
In 2017, I was awarded a 12-week Art Residency to work on newly commissioned work with Lincoln based art collective General Practice; a multi-disciplinary artist collective living and working from Lincoln, UK.
Funded by Quad, in Derby, our research and outputs responded to the Peak District’s mythology, topography, and geographic histories, through collaborative, expressive and experimental practice. (General Practice: Manifold | QUAD (derbyquad.co.uk)).
My response seriously played with the hollowness of language and image, by spatially arranging contradictory figures of speech, titled ‘The Mountain and the Cave, 2017‘ and when live-streaming a virtual image of a proposed mythological site, titled ‘Rev{o,e}l{u,a}tions’, 2017.
In ‘The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England’s Legends, from Spring-heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys’, Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson ‘interweave…facts, fictions, superstitions, and traditions’ that are ‘deep-rooted’ within England’s legendary past [1]. Inspired by the prehistoric standing stone circles scattered across the Peak Districts Moors, such as; Nine Ladies Stone Circle, at Stanton Moor, where, legend has it, one Sunday, nine ladies and a fiddler came up to the Moor to dance but were all turned into stone for their act of sacrilege, ‘Rev{o,e}l{u,a}tions’, 2017, is a dislocated, virtual site, which transcends time and space, by interlinking the Peak Districts mythologies with my own traditions and superstitions.
[1] Westwood, J. & Simpson, J. ‘The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England’s Legends, from Spring-heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys’, Penguin Books, 2006, pvii-pix