5. Andrew Reeve / Lavanja Thavabalasingam
Lavanja Thavabalasingam
LACUNA
Lacuna derives directly from a dialogue
between artists Andy Reeve and Lavanja
Thavabalasingam, in response to Henry Moore’s
work exhibited at the Sainsbury Centre for
Visual Arts. The work’s creation transpired over
the intrigue of Moore’s sculptural drawings,
particularly the line-work of the figures under a
blanket in Sleeping Shelters: Two Women and a
Child.
Lacuna attempts to understand the space
between image and object, the void between the
ending of one and the beginnings of the other,
before lines become shapes and take up space.
Andrew Reeve
NO SHELTER:MOTHER WITHOUT CHILD
No Shelter: Mother without Child began from
correspondence with Andy Reeve and Lavanja
Thavabalasingam.
This artwork is influenced by Henry Moore’s
Mother and Child, Sleeping Shelters: Two Women
and Child, and the ongoing civil war in Syria.
Developed from found objects (stones),
sculpture, and painting, the sculptural element
is formed by stones from Happisburgh, where,
in the 1930s, Moore found pebbles showing
“Nature’s way of working stone… Some of them
have holes right through them.”
Hand-cut from the painting is a symbolic
representation of jasmine flowers in the shape
of an aerial bomb attack of Damascus (City of
Jasmine).
CORRESPONDENCE
This exhibition was programmed by the Sainsbury Centre Young Associates:
Angeline Dresser
Emma Newstead
Francesca Cant
Harriet Latter
Izzy Emberson
Katerina Artemiou
Ruby Bolton
Ruth Law
Tom Little
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@young_associate
Image: Emily Godden
Saturday 31 May
12noon-4pm
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Crescent Wing
FREE
An exhibition programmed by the Sainsbury Centre Young Associates
including work by Lavanja Thavabalasingam / Andrew Reeve, Emily Godden / Jade
Lees, Natalie Moles-Smith / Evangelisa D Zoylinos, Samantha Oxford-Dean / Katerina Artemiou and Tom Little, Maire Grieves / Lorna Pickering.
This project is in response to the current exhibition Moore in Focus.
1. Natalie Moles-Smith/ Evangelisa D Zoylinos
MAGPIE TOYS
The project, Magpie Toys, by Moles-Smith and
Zoylinos, is the result of a collaboration between
two strangers, cultivating a shared interest.
On their first meeting a similarity of collecting
beautiful things was drawn; it was then decided
that over a week the two artists would collect
objects that they were attracted to, whilst
corresponding via postcard – so as to record
their correspondence.
On their second meeting the two artists
swapped objects, taking their collaboration one
step further. Using materials gathered by the
other and with a basic knowledge of their artistic
partner, the artist would create something uncovering their common ground and allowing
them to explore the other’s character through
aesthetic means.
During this second meeting Moles-Smith and
Zoylinos talked about their lives, their aspirations
and their anecdotes – whilst using their hands to
fold and manipulate their given materials. And so
the project began to take shape, and the pieces
created became a physical representation
of the sub-conscious act of developing an
understanding and a closer relationship with
another person.
What started as a singular act of collecting
objects in the spirit of Magpies, became a
representation of two artists collaborating both
creatively and personally.
Image: Emily Godden
2. Emily Godden / Jade Lees
Emily Godden
IT WAS SO NICE TO MEET YOU
Currently I’m creating work that focuses
around language to promote touch and physical
exploration of an attempted phenomenological
object. By incorporating language into my work I
am able to use the discreet translucent qualities
of words to direct messages that contain a
hypothetical tension.
For this body of work I’ve used the text “It was
so nice to see you” from a letter sent to Henry
Moore. I have changed the text to; It was so nice
to meet you to represent the physical dialogue
created by translating the handwritten text into
measured lines.
Jade Lees
WALLS GET HIGHER AS YOU GET CLOSER
Agoraphobia is a natural human trait that
transforms sufferers lives by restricting areas
of mobility, environments of vast openness or
crowdedness turn into areas of danger due to a
slipperiness of what might happen.
Online forums reveal a dialogue of friendship
between sufferers through a correspondence
of an intertwining human trait, they become
environments where mere moments of comfort
occur as they can at last see each other without
actually seeing each other. A mere moment of
comfort turns into a suffocation as they begin to
find it harder and harder to leave home.
3. Tom Little & Katerina Artemiou / Samantha
Oxford-Dean
Tom Little & Katerina Artemiou
3115_DELIVERED_23MAY_1902
3115_Delivered_23May_1902 is a collaborative
video exploring the paradox between the crafted
nature of physical mail and the closeness we
feel with instantaneous correspondence using
technology. Attempting to emphasise how
technology creates a feeling of closeness and
the physicality of a letter more so, but both seem
to detach the recognition of actual distance.
Tom Little is an interdisciplinary artist working
mainly with lens-based media, exploring the
notions of truth, identity, representation and the
Media. The process is always paramount within
his work, and informed by creating structures
and boundaries in a pursuit to disconnect his
authorship from the works.
Katerina Artemiou is an artist from Cyprus,
currently based in Norwich. She is a multimedia
artist, using photography as a base for her
projects. Her work reflects on thoughts, opinions
and ideas at the current time of doing so. Main
interest for her work is family relationships and
gender roles.
Samantha Oxford-Dean
NOSTALGIA
Correspondence pushed me to think about the
comforts of family. I received items of nostalgia,
things that show family and how during studies
and work, individuals have to be far away from a
place/people that is so precious to them. I have
created an image that represents some of the
feelings that I have to these items. The piece is to
represent a flow and a natural form, family being
the most natural thing that we have relationships
too. I have used a cooler colour pallet to represent
purity and the idea of unconditional love. I have
used a soft flowing texture to represent comfort
and security. The image is an expression of
feelings that we contain.
Image: Samantha Oxford-Dean
4. Maire Grieves / Lorna Pickering
WRAPPING
Responding to the element of secrecy and
sharing within a friendship through the use of
found objects. An object that had been found
during a walk was hidden, for the other to
retrieve, using a map. This spot became our own
area of exchange. A piece of fabric was created
in response to the object and the surroundings
of which the object had been placed. The fabric
was exchanged to the other and was then used
as away to conceal the object. By concealing
these objects in fabric, we are sealing their
identity, increasing the sense of ownership we
have over them. We are keeping the objects to
ourselves; they hold an element of mystery for
the viewer.
We are exploring the notion of visibility and
invisibility, the objects being not fully concealed
allows the viewer to see parts of the object,
yet not the object as a whole, this blocks our
linkage between sight and memory and tests our
conceptualisation of known objects. Displaying
the objects on the floor within natural materials
such as rock allows the viewer to view the objects
as they were found in the landscape. There is an
element of a childhood within our work, the act
of hiding, retrieving and wrapping these objects
all produce a memory of a child like friendship.