Chiswick House Festival Arts Installation Trail
24 September - 2 October 2005

Title: ‘Bull and Dancer’
Medium: Paper and ink, on an exterior brick wall

For the festival, the doors of this historic house and its grounds were thrown wide open.
My installation was a response to the site and the spirit of the event.

I was stimulated by the mythical imagery of the statues in the garden, and by the sense of the history of ideas relayed in design. The bull and dancer come from wall paintings of ancient Crete, and the black and white tile pattern from ancient Rome, things that the designers of Chiswick House might have looked at in their day.

By making the image out of paper and gluing it to the wall, I wanted there to be an immediacy that is about the here and now. Hence the figures which have vitality, but at the same time they are composed of simple units which are like the supporting bricks of the wall.

 

 

 
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