Bromley House Library Residency
2018/19
Bromley House Library in Nottingham, wanted “to bring its members into close relations with an artist and enable work to be produced that demonstrated the challenges, relevance and importance of their archive and building”. Alongside them and 5 Leaves Bookshop I developed a year-long residency which brought me in to close relations with the members leading to a series of library based interventions, workshops and talks all themed around the idea of Refuge.
Loves Labours not lost
Cyanotype ‘Forget Me Nots’ picked in library garden, photographed in situ, before being printed at A1 and redisplayed.
Silence is not the opposite of sound
An LED scrolling display featuring phrases gathered from library members in response to the question: What are you escaping by coming here?
I love you – you just didn’t see it.
100’s of small text pieces hidden in books across the whole library.
A reading and discussion event with Dr David Matless
My final presentation
With special thanks to
Nicola Rae
David Matless
Staff and members at BHL
5 Leaves Bookshop
Funded by Arts Council England
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