The third and final collaborative residency with artists from UK, France and Canada.
Throughout this residency I have focused on Traversée as a crossing or traversing through the different stages of life. This latest work is a collaboration between myself and one of French artists, Yves Riguidel. My part of the work is about the spaces in between. Moments of time from the city are painted in ink on the outside of two large pieces of cardboard by Yves and together we used more cardboard to build a tunnel between them. Visitors are invited to go through and make marks on the cardboard walls inside the tunnel to mark the time they were there. The ink paintings are of spaces in Nottingham and the tunnel also represents the caves that can be found under and around the city.
On opposite walls from the tunnel is a continuation from work made in Caen,France. Paper shapes mimic organic material growing up from the floor. They are an attempt to create work that crosses over from imagination into the real world. Originally incorporated into tents like those made by children from textiles over clotheslines, in this space they have sprung up in corners on their own.
More information about the residency can be found on the Hatchery Artists website.