Printmaking Nomads
In our University, we printmakers are shipped about every year (sometimes more than once through the semester) due to changes happening in our department..I know it helps our practice, but this year my studio is currently a storage room! Some heavy lifting is needed today so that I can get the numerous lockers and plan chests out and get to work!
Yesterday I went to Durham to see “Inkubator 2” at the DLI Museum. An exhibition of artists’ books set in an unconventional setting of four areas: The Annexe, The Study, The Log Cabin and The Landscape. Each of these areas are places we might read, learn, think and reflect in, and in adding wallpaper and chairs, the gallery attempts to create a domestic area, moving away from institutional spaces. However, I expected there to be more books, or there to be larger bookshelves, and specific lighting to help us really immerse ourselves in the setting, it wasn’t possible to forget that I was in an institution.
It was impossible to note down each book, but two higlights for me were Miranda Schofield’s “Hearth” and Finlay Taylor “De-Composition” due to the content and form of the books. Each book was fascinating, being able to handle them meant hours could be spent there (I had limited time, so stuck to an hour and a half). It got me wondering what books mean to artists, and what they mean to me.
