Glimpsed: an exhibition of 3d and video works at House Gallery, Camberwell, London, by members of South London Women Artists in February 2011.
My installation was entitled crooked....
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'golden' melt-water - day 1 |
“…history books have claimed that “camber”’ meant crooked and that water from the Camber Well could cure “crippled or crooked people”.
The Telegraph May 200
Lepers and cripples, expelled from the City of London, were sent to Camberwell and treated by the church of St Giles
crooked was a process of related events that took place over the two weeks of the exhibition:
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Ice, steel bowl, linen - day1 |
crooked: a block of ice made from water from the roof of St Giles Parish Church was suspended by a linen cloth. St Giles is the patron saint of cripples and a church dedicated to him has stood in Camberwell since Anglo-Saxon times.
I have worked with ice, linen and ‘gold’ for a several years.The palette of materials hints at an alchemy – materials transformed and states altered.
In the early hours of Saturday morning 22 January 2011 a serious car crash took place outside the Gallery. We arrived to set up the exhibition with the crumpled wrecks of two cars, one with its roof ripped off, being towed away.
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debris of the car crash was frozen into bowls of ice |
The 'bowls' of ice contained the remains of the wall demolished by the impact of one of the vehicles: shattered car headlamps, bricks and mortar rubble. As the ice thawed they were released into the golden melt-water, which gold splashed onto the surrounding floor. Afer about 30 hours the linen also was released: swaddling, bandage, shroud perhaps?
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The steel bowl transformed by melt water day 1 |
