SUE COHEN and OONA BALL will be presenting their installations in the hidden cupboards concealed in the wooden panelling situated in the lifts at each side of the intriguing Edwardian pedestrian tunnel at Greenwich.
Come and meet the artists in the lifts on Saturday 3rd November 11.00am - 12.30pm
Opening Hours:
Work presented in the lifts
2nd-30th November 2007
Monday to Saturday 7.00am-7.00pm
Sunday 10.00am-5.30pm
Admission:
Free
Address:
Greenwich Foot Tunnel
Cutty Sark Gardens
Greenwich
London
SE10 9HT
Transport:
DLR: Cutty Sark, Island Garden Station, Greenwich
Mainline rail: Greenwich
Bus: 177,188,180, D3, D7, 199, 286, 386
Enquires:
07931 536327 or suecohen@ntlworld.com
Map:
The Cutty Sark Gardens in the centre of Greenwich South London has the backdrop of magnificent buildings and overwhelming history, confront the famous Tea Clipper the Cutty Sark recently gutted by fire and walk across the gardens towards the river and you are faced with a small domed building. Enter this Edwardian
building and experience the atmospheric world of the subterranean, for this is Greenwich Foot Tunnel. Built in 1902 you get the feeling that you are going down to the very soul of Greenwich, a cavernous world where you once could leave your secrets as you travel from one side of the London to the other. The tunnel is full of mystery and intrigue it can seem more lonely and desolate than anywhere else in London. Today all the human traffic that passes through the tunnel from 7am-7pm can be viewed on TV's watched by the attendants working in both identical lifts at each end of the tunnel. You have no consciousness of the external; time becomes eternal and the weather inconsequential.
It is here in the lifts that CUPBOARD LOVE invites the audience to engage on a direct level with art pieces that will explore our relationship with how we view visual art. The presented work of two acclaimed artists; SUE COHEN and OONA BALL will explore our relationship with our response to physical and emotional events that besiege this unique space.
CUPBOARD LOVE will be the first show in a series that will be presented in these hidden cubby holes.
SITTING IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR. GILDA by SUE COHEN explores story telling in this very public environment.Portraits are often made to present an exact visual likeness. The viewer is asked to identify the sitter and judge how closely it resembles the appearance of the subject. Often the social background is portrayed providing information about the sitters character or place in society.
In GILDA the correct personal identification is more difficult. Who is GILDA and what does she look like? She is the unification of social history, events, places and time. GILDA continues the series of artworks that presents the past in stories that are dark and mysterious but portrayed in a seductive secretive and absorbing manner unravelling the cultural assimilation of the other.
BLACKTHORN STICK is a new installation by sculptor OONA BALL created specifically for the interior space of a hidden cupboard inside the Greenwich foot tunnel lift, Island Gardens.The installation BLACKTHORN STICK is formed from casts of her Grandfathers walking stick found in her parent’s wood shed in north Lancashire. In the dank, underwater, man-made structure of the foot tunnel BLACKTHORN STICK reminds us of the immense natural force above and suggests we stride out into the wider natural world.
Click here to download Sue Cohen's CV
Click here to download Oona Ball's CV
CUPBOARD LOVE is curated by Sue Cohen for OCCUPY MY TIME and is the second show curated and presented by OCCUPY MY TIME in this exciting space. OCCUPY MY TIME is a non-profit making organisation that presents art in temporary spaces/sites in which to attract a diverse audience. For previous shows presented by OCCUPY MY TIME please go to www.occupymytime.co.uk
Web design by Orlando at Out of Nowhere Design. Out of Nowhere Design specialises in web design for artists, creative projects, and small businesses.
CUPBPARD LOVE is presented in association with Out of Nowhere Design and Greenwich Council.
back to top