Residency: Work Hall
7-17 May 2024
This body of work was created during a Residency at Work Hall, a communal studio space in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The Residency provided an opportunity to broaden the practice from a typically solitary and rural experience to a busy, urban environment. It was a shared space, where the potential for dialogue could support and expand development and was a basis from which to pursue ideas and experiences not yet realised. Work Hall, an unfamiliar space, offered 2 weeks to observe, record and engage with activities specific to its situation.
Objects from the hardware store located across the road from Work Hall was pivotal material towards the development of work during the residency at Work Hall. Sarah Sze spoke about ‘a process of discovery’ and ‘seeing things in their own becoming’. ‘The thrill of not knowing how your environment is going to evolve around you’ manifested as a continuing and steadfast factor as the work unfolded. Engaged with making consciously but quickly and instinctually the work developed a relationship with the physical behaviour of the materials. This was the objective of the residency, to make a connection to place is some way or form and to work within it.
THE STUDIO WALL AT WORK HALL IS A SURFACE TO TEST IDEAS
7 x Works on Paper (2024), mixed media, 21 x 29.7 cm each
6 x Works on Canvas (2024), acrylic on canvas, 20 x 25 cm each
6 x Works on MDF (2024), acrylic on board, 29.7 x 21 cm
