Penarth Arts & Crafts Ltd, which manages the Washington Gallery, has invited 47 artists to produce works using recycled materials. Karin’s piece Meme x 2 was selected for this exhibition.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
For this exhibition I have created two works, Meme x 2 and Meme Encounters that make visible the life cycle of such ideas, believes, fashions which are taken up by society at one point in time and then dropped and forgotten when another idea, attitude takes over, e.g. 'Waste Not, Want Not' has been discarded in favour of 'Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind'. Litter, in the widest sense of the word, spreads through our environment like a virus for which we have no thought or cure at present.
On MDF board sprayed with silver car paint I have arranged in rows black film containers in a shape resembling a flower head. Within a row a new flower head (new idea or meme) appears in that it has a white centre. It spreads through the following rows till it has gained ascendancy over the black flower heads and is itself 'invaded' by a new flower head (white with a black centre). It goes without saying that these containers are normally thrown away.
Meme x 2 in context
Meme x 2
The installation (the Return of the Unwanted) shows how a Meme may be superseded for better or for worse, in this case surely 'for worse'.
The first work shows the uncontaminated Thames at low tide. It is very beautiful. The second work is of the urban Thames. Bits of litter are swirling around in the water and a red canister is bobbing through the painting. It is still beautiful.
Thames at low tide and Urban Thames
The third wall-hung piece is a 'River of Litter', after which you enter a dark damp room. Gulls are screaming and waves crash on the beach, only this beach is rubbish that I collected from the Thames foreshore at Bermondsey. It is as if it has finally poured out of the paintings. In the course of collecting the rubbish, I found 25 white plastic bottles containing a message each.
River of litter
After the damp room, a sculpture suspended from the ceiling forces the viewer to push aside a bicycle wheel (retrieved from the river) to view a photo attached to a squashed bottle. This photo shows rubbish dumped in front of gate with the sign 'Please do not obstruct'. The viewer is physically forced to engage with the rubbish - a non-verbal message.
Sculpture suspended from ceiling
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Some of Karin's work will be featured in the Janus exhibition at Cafe Gallery Projects London, Southwark Park SE16
18 January - 4 February 2006, Wednesday - Sunday, 11 - 4
Private View, Sunday, 15 January 2006 from 2 - 5
The promotional flyer which you can download as a PDF (Acrobat required) and which includes a map has this to say about the theme of the exhibition:
Janus is the Roman god of gates and doorways, beginnings and endings, change, transition and all that is double edged in life, unlocking the portals to whatever is termed ?culture?.
In the month of Janus, Cafe Gallery Projects London open their doors to the Bermondsey Artists? Group (BAG) Biennale. This is the first in a series of exhibitions and events, featuring work proposed, selected, made and curated by members of the Bermondsey Artists? Group. The exhibition consists of a multi-disciplinary selection of works responding to the patron of January.
Founded in 1984 by members of the Bermondsey Artists? Group, Cafe Gallery Projects London is an artist-led initiative. It promotes a wide range of work, from internationally recognised artists to various creative practices beyond the gallery system. This exhibition provides a rare chance to see the talent of the membership behind the organisation.
Alive art programme consisting of performances by exhibitors and collaborations with invited artists will run as an integral part of the exhibition.
The pieces of Karin's work that will be shown in the exhibition are: two from the Bankside Power Station cycle: the detail shot featuring part of a gate which joins and separates an electric sub-station from Tate Modern. The second image is created from an interior shot (detail) of the roof of Bankside Power Station but makes architectural references to the windows of that building. The third picture shows the Canary Wharf IRA bombing plus advertising hoardings.
Friday, January 13, 2006
at The Space, Hubbub Bar
throughout November 2004
In the confined space of the upstairs bar Karin exhibits four works, all of which have been in major exhibitions both in London and Bristol. Of particular interest is a piece which records the result of bomb damage in Marsh Wall (Last shown at the Salon des Arts, Kensington, London). Three further 'paintings' have as their subject the last working spice mill in Butlers Wharf, a building which has now been converted into luxury flats.
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
As of last weekend, Karin has moved studio - the Trundle Street studios have now closed, so she has had to relocate from Borough to a new location in Rotherhithe. Douglas Schwab has posted some thoughts and a couple of pictures he took at the farewell party on his moblog:
Art and the Photograph
Photos and Community
(unfortunately, these links are now obsolete)
Thursday, July 1, 2004
A picture of Karin's was hung at The Salon des Arts, London, from November 11th to December 14th as part of an exhibition called Religion, Art and War. The exhibition will go to Jerusalem in February, where it will be on show at the The Artists House for three weeks, after which it will move to Haifa to the Arab/Jewish Centre for two weeks. With luck the exhibition will return to London so that those of you who did not catch it the first time round can go and see it.
Thursday, January 8, 2004
The first draft of the website design is now online. A number of pictures from The Mill cycle are available to view in the gallery section. The site is still being developed and will soon have images of 'The Bankside Power Station' and 'Reflections on the Thames' cycles too.
This page will be updated whenever there is news of forthcoming exhibitions, or perhaps just when Karin feels the need to air her views on something or another.
Saturday, March 8, 2003
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