Critical Edge Collective - From The Ground Up
I was asked to join as a guest artist the Critical Edge Collective exhibition - From the Ground Up.
For this show, we set about building a new ‘library’ from the ground up, each artist bringing with us a collection of research materials to share with the group that acts as the raw materials from which another artist responds.By making new works in response to each other’s research; we place emphasis on trust and sharing real information through enquiry, challenge individualism in the art world, and commit to remaining critical and playful in the face of polarisation and division in the post-truth era..
Jordon Casteel
Alice Neel
Boxed Library
Painting only in Ultramarine Blue, Phthalocyanine Turquoise and Titanium White, Kellys box represents the painters who have informed and influenced her practice. Using reclaimed wood and metal to create the external structure, Kellys box also references Lubaina Himid’s ‘Man in a Paper Drawer’, representing figures who have been hidden, and Kaye Donachie’s paintings of archived images of radical women of the early twentieth century.
Kellys box represent all female painters. Some contemporary and some from the cannon, acting as her own personal archival reference, the scale of the paintings is reflective of a book.
