We’ll be using this blog over the next few months to share progress and document Anne’s project I didn’t see you there as it develops, including Anne’s making processes, Hand in Glove’s role as co-producers and the delivery of the project in the public realm of Bristol in June 2013.
Here, Anne talks about her practice and initial ambitions for the project.
Anne: I’ve recently graduated from an MA at Bath Spa and over the past 2 years I have been producing a body of work that focusses on the making of objects that look useable and recognisable in some way – and yet are not. As amalgamations of already commercially produced commodities, my works examine the role that expectation and memory plays in our reading and understanding of the objects we encounter, and articulate our often subconscious relationships with the items we surround ourselves with.
The objects I make are predominately human in scale, and they conjure multiple associations with things domestic and industrial, useful and useless, familiar and foreign. Their material and manufacture suggests a contradictory notion of being both mass-produced and individually crafted, and although often created to excess, it is important to me that they are hand finished, contain small variations, are each unique.
I’m interested to see how the objects I make might respond to being sited outside, in non art, non “coded” spaces. How they could increase the viewer’s awareness of their own routines, habits, and their own passage through a city by making them more aware the details of their surroundings. By coming across art objects in sites that usually hold the objects of least cultural value or recognition the viewer would perhaps more actively engage with looking, appreciating the tiny details of the fabric of the urban environment.
