BAUHAUS BRICKS:
Bauhaus Bricks formed part of an International Project
Bauhaus 90 Years/90 Days.
Read my artist statement and learn more about
The Bauhaus Movement at this link:
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Was first exhibited in end of Residency Art Exhibition "Watching Walls" at Lancaster University.
This installation is inspired by the Poets of Guantanamo who in the first year of their detention were not allowed writing materials. Undeterred poems were composed on Styrofoam cups using pebbles. The poems were passed from cell to cell.
Christine, Brian Donovan sent me the photos from your Cup Poems
installation--totally wonderful and moving! Very best, Holly
Holly Carver
Director, University of Iowa Press
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'JUST ANOTHER DAY?'
This newspaper installation was inspired by original 9/11 - 7/7 newspapers which gave no indication of what was to come. A newspaper domestic installation personifies how close to home the danger is and how fragile we all are in today’s climate. Any of us can be today’s headlines. A sinister take on Warhol’s “15 minutes of fame”.
BRICK BOOKS:
Was first exhibited in end of Residency Art Exhibition "Watching Walls" at Lancaster University.
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"Brick Books" formed part of Solo Exhibition entitled: "Fractured"
Exhibited at the Conference entitled "Fractured Images & Broken words - a multi-disciplinary Post Graduate Symposium hosted by the Department of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster University which featured plenary speaker Professor Terry Eagleton.
Exhibited at the Conference entitled "Fractured Images & Broken words - a multi-disciplinary Post Graduate Symposium hosted by the Department of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster University which featured plenary speaker Professor Terry Eagleton.
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CUPS
This installation is inspired by the Poets of Guantanamo who in the first year of their detention were not allowed writing materials. Undeterred poems were composed on Styrofoam cups using pebbles. The poems were passed from cell to cell.
When the guards discovered what was going on, they smashed the cups and threw them away fearing it was a way of passing coded messages.
Fragments of these “cup poems” survived and are included in the anthology Poems from Guantanamo – The Detainees Speak., Mark Falcoff, (ed), published by University of Iowa Press.
Iowa Press have granted me permission to use quotes from this book.
Copyright Christine Dawson
Copyright Christine Dawson
Christine, Brian Donovan sent me the photos from your Cup Poems
installation--totally wonderful and moving! Very best, Holly
Holly Carver
Director, University of Iowa Press
EGGSHELLS
This body of work which consists of an installation and photographs is about domestic violence and what happens behind domestic walls.
A friend said to me that living with her abusive partner was like “walking on eggshells”.
I am in the process of making a video to be part of this work.
To view more images use this link:
http://www.christinedawsonart.co.uk/gallery/Eggshells-Revisited/20/150/1/
Copyright Christine Dawson
To view more images use this link:
http://www.christinedawsonart.co.uk/gallery/Eggshells-Revisited/20/150/1/
Copyright Christine Dawson
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'JUST ANOTHER DAY?'
This newspaper installation was inspired by original 9/11 - 7/7 newspapers which gave no indication of what was to come. A newspaper domestic installation personifies how close to home the danger is and how fragile we all are in today’s climate. Any of us can be today’s headlines. A sinister take on Warhol’s “15 minutes of fame”.
Furniture covered in newspaper. Sculpted newspaper coffee set and cushion.
News (clippie) mat.
Original 9/11 and 7/7 newspapers form part of installation.
On the DVD pages from the 9/11 Independent newspaper turn as if the viewer is reading them.
Copyright Christine Dawson
Copyright Christine Dawson
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