Project description

Microsoft spelling error lines exist in a digital software and change how we act within it – they highlight errors and encourage us to correct them. In a similar vein, architectural structures alter the way we behave in a physical space.

My works ‘Ascending/Descending’ and ‘Walking around the balcony’ both visually map sounds, resulting in a 2-dimensional line that relates to our movements in a 3-dimensional space. The lines in both works are incorporated into architecture and encourage bodily and spatial awareness, aiming to alter the way that viewers move through the space.

In the installation ‘Look Around You’ the prints depict flattened versions of architectural structures, aiming to encourage the consideration of their aesthetic qualities and the awareness of the physical space around the work. 

The red line in this installation demarcates the prints, mirrors, and the space, playfully and almost comically drawing attention to both. This playfulness, created by altering the lines with typefaces, aims to contrast the perception of architecture as serious. This alters how viewers interact with the architecture in the room and the mirrors heighten this by involving the viewer in the interaction between the painted line and the architecture.

Look Around You

Installation of the following works (from left to right), all painted over and connected with a red line:

Pipes

841 x 594mm, April 2024, screen print on paper, 1/5. 

Look at the pipes

800 x 270mm, May 2024, matt emullsion paint on acrylic mirror.

Look at the ceiling

1000 x 700mm, May 2024, vinyl and matt emulsion on acrylic mirror.

Ceiling fan

420 x 297mm, April 2024, screen print on paper, 1/6. 

Slanted window

1189 x 820mm, April 2024, screen print on paper, 1/8. 

Window from below

594 x 420mm, April 2024, screen print on paper, 1/3.

Grey wall, with screen prints and mirrors on the wall, 3 red squiggly lines traverses the wall.
Ascending/Descending

Both sides 600 x 15cm, 2024, printed and cut vinyl.

Thin red line along both sides of a staircase.
Red squiggly line running up the side of a staircase.
Red squiggly line running up the side of a staircase.
Walking around the balcony.

Each section 215 x 15cm, 2024, laser cut red mountboard.

Thin red line along sculpture court balcony.
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