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. Developed with the library and 5 Leaves Bookshop, in support of these aims, my year-long residency led to a series of library based works, interventions, workshops and talks, all on the theme 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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