Art Angel + Open Studios opens 24th Nov . . .

"We were at a point where certain orthodoxies of Modernism had been convincingly dismantled. The idea of the tabula rasa, of starting with a blank canvas, was pretty hard to sustain. It wasn't necessary to eliminate a sense of environment, history, the layering of culture, the experience of the street from the work. The Arte Povera artists, for example, had opened up a very different kind of aesthetic space. We were interested in the idea that there could be a seepage of the work into the world and vice versa, to break down where the edge of the 'made' work might be, and where the edge of the 'found' world might be. In many of the projects with which we've been involved there is this kind of seepage of the one into the other. The choice of location is never secondary, and is often something that contributes actively to the meaning of the work. It's not just a container."

James Lingwood from: Off Limits: 40 Artangel Projects

This Thursday sees the opening of the Wimbledon Art Studios Open Event - I will be there in studio 307 with a collection of my art relating to fairy tales and stories. Come along and visit. Late night opening on Thursday and Friday evening (until 10pm):

Amelia.x