I am starting a new project, From Absorb to Zoom: An Alphabet of Actions in the Women’s Art Library. I have received an Arts Council England Grant for the Arts for my first project with a UK archive, the Women’s Art Library, housed at Goldsmiths College in London. From Absorb to Zoom will result in a site-specific print installation to be exhibited in March 2015 on the Goldsmiths campus.

The Women’s Art Library started as an artist-led initiative to enhance public knowledge of the practice, impact and achievement of women in the visual arts. It houses unique documentation of women artists’ works, mainly from the 1970’s through the 1990’s. My installation will take inspiration from archived slides, artists’ books, magazines, monographs and posters.

Through my research, print installation and this project blog, I will address the under-representation of women in art history and highlight this historically important, but underutilized resource. The blog will feature recent works by selected artists with documentation in the Women’s Art Library, to virtually update the archive.

I have received in-kind support from my other project partner, the Thames Barrier Print Studio, where I will be making the work for the installation. And I will be raising the last portion of my budget with a crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter.


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In tandem with my print project, From Absorb to Zoom: An Alphabet of Actions in the Women’s Art Library, I am inviting selected artists with documentation in the WAL archive to send me images of recent work to feature on this project blog.

Oona Grimes works with books, print and mixed media. Her show, Chapter Two, is on view at Danielle Arnaud in London, from 8 November to 14 December, 2014.

the dress me up: 2013, 75.5cm x 168cm, spray paint on paper on foamex

I love the way Grimes describes her practice:

Oona Grimes is a compulsive draw-er, scribbler and storyteller. Working with books and multiples, etching and mixed-media, she embraces redundant print process; re-cycling obsolete materials and last of stock.

Grimes conjures narratives subverted by the mistranslation of myth, gossip and verse. Language is re-calibrated, signposts are written over; it is a universe of vile deeds and mysterious contracts. William Bligh, Fred West, John Dee and Carroll’s Alice rub shoulders in cocktail distillations of individual and collective memory.

slightly foxed: 2014, 74.5cm x 111cm, spray paint on paper on di-bond

supreme pancake: 2013, 74.5cm x 111cm, spray paint on paper on di-bond

natural puff: 2014, 74.5cm x 111cm, spray paint on paper on di-bond

Recent works take the form of an exploded book unyoked from a single narrative. In a land without signposts, strange playful figures and alien text toy with our need to decode and translate. Not non-sense but an alternate order which warps time and memory, like fractal geometries of chaos.

foliaduh: 2013, 74.5cm x 111cm, spray paint on paper on di-bond

Oona Grimes:  http://oonagrimes.com

To learn more about the Women’s Art Library:
http://www.gold.ac.uk/make/

To support From Absorb to Zoom on Kickstarter:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/650466689/an-art-project-celebrating-the-womens-art-library


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The KickStarter campaign for my project with the Women’s Art Library in London is now live!

From Absorb to Zoom: An Alphabet of Actions in the Women’s Art Library is a site-specific collaborative print installation I will create with the Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths College. My installation, in March 2015, will take inspiration from archived slides, artists’ books, magazines, monographs and posters and will be installed in two locations on the Goldsmiths’ campus.

In conjunction with my research, I will post a blog featuring recent works by artists with documentation in the Women’s Art Library to virtually update the archive. The project is supported by Arts Council England.

You can learn more about the project and support the campaign at this link:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/650466689/an-art-project-celebrating-the-womens-art-library


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