Work part of the postponed degree show (due to COVID - 19): Turn the lights out when you leave, at Coventry University. 

About the work:
The space was split into two suggested sections, the exhibition side (a more traditional exhibition environment with white walls and grey floors) and the home side (an interactive installation responding to themes of the home, memories around the space and experiences of safety and reassurance). The exhibition side responds to the more traditional norms of an exhibition environment, white walls and grey floors with a mix of hung, wall based artworks and a suspended artwork. The three wall based works are explorations of memory and the reliability of our memories. They combine two dimensional studies into one whole piece - a mix of abstracted materials, deteriorated material, printmaking material and photographic material.  In the end of the space suspends a tapestry piece made up of the made using leftover, residual marked pieces of material all sown and stuck together and then suspended from a ceiling support. There is a spirituality to the piece, which acted as the backdrop to the film, that would have sat on the plinth. Behind the tapestry is a hidden photographic piece and light illuminating the floor and bottom. 
The home side is made to feel more of a lived in environment for the audience to explore and discover similar to being at your grandparents or family members house. 
The installation is made to be interacted with breaking the norms of the gallery environment, which contradicts the rest of the exhibition as a whole and the exhibition side. The furniture and found material are from my grandfathers garage, but missing is a tall bookshelf unit that would have sat in the left corner of the room. The mix of nostalgic, ‘historical’ furniture with the more contemporary light box and hanging and interactive pieces makes the space feel unique and interesting to explore.
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The audience are invited to explore the space and interact with what they think can be explored, discovering artworks within artworks and hidden areas of the space. The audience is also encouraged to apply their own memories to the space, the work is a collective exploration of memory and remembering. Exploring the 2D wall based studies, super 8 film projection (made with my grandfathers equipment, exploring Coventry, memory, deterioration, fading, loss, candid moments and the mundane), furniture, and interactive material (view master, light box etc). 

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Depicting Memory (2020)