CAS Online Summer Exhibition

See the exhibition here: Online Exhibition | Colchester Art Society

Read on to learn more about my submission. 

Wanting to show some of my new work I settled on my plaster letter tiles which follow the rest of my DIY art practice and ACcomplete4 font.

Picking text of the outcome was more difficult, as usual, my work responds to the site that it is shown in and with an online exhibition there is no physical site to play with. 

To overcome this I decided to work with generic wording or phrases that we might use every day in different contexts. 

Two of the rejected outcomes included the below - 'and', 'so what'

I rejected these as they felt too negative and angst-y. Instead, I went for the more positive 'go on' 

The exhibition runs online until 31st July, 2021.

Words with Found Letters - Part Ten

 

ATRS Series: Display idea

 

Details

Words with Found Letters - Part Nine

 

Moral Subjects

"We want to thank all the creatives for their amazing responses to Moral Subjects. The exhibition is now LIVE!

Come and engage! Moral Subjects is a project that runs in parallel with Grayson Perry’s exhibition: The Vanity of Small Differences, showing at East Gallery^NUA this summer. “I focus on the emotional investment we make in the things we choose to live with, wear, eat, read or drive. Class and taste run deep in our character”. Moral Subjects takes this approach as its simple idea and the result is a showcase of our objects and their subjects.

We asked the people of Norwich and Norfolk for objects, things of importance that are tied to you emotionally or practically. We asked for the stories that these objects evoke, hoping for a variety of responses as rich as society itself. And of course, with our creative community, that is exactly what we got. These responses have been taken and exhibited in a virtual gallery space presenting a snapshot of opinion, belief, fear, hope, likes, and dislikes. A spin around this exhibition is a window into the museum of emotional attachment to things." - NUA

The Lanyard, 2021

The Lanyard is a line drawing of my teacher lanyard, filled with text about my dual role of artist-teacher relating to my Ph.D. 

Visit the show here: artsteps | Moral Subjects

ATRS Series - A new body of work: A visual preview

The ATRS series is a collection of artworks created during the first year of my Ph.D., which explore the dual role of artist-teachers in adult community learning. 

You can read more about my research here: Abbie Cairns - Norwich University of the Arts (nua.ac.uk)

Words with Found Letters - Part Eight