ReOrsa Project Space
The shop window at 114 Broadway, Bracknell is a dedicated project space showing work by selected artists from the Thames Valley area. The idea is to give artists access to a public space in the region to explore new ideas, concepts, or materials within their practice and develop new site specific work for the space. The artists occupy the window for approximately 8 weeks, below is an overview of the current and previous artists installations.
If you are a Thames Valley based professional artist and may be interested in proposing an installation for the space, please contact us for further information.
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Date: July – August 10 Title: “Greetings From The Mantlepiece” Statement: My work deals with notions of anticipation and tourism, using tourist images to create giant painted postcards with an ominous twist. In this installation I put greater emphasis on the strangeness inherent in the scale of the works, creating a set where postcards are joined by similarly scaled up objects. |
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Date: May – June 10 Title: Removal Statement: When things reach the end of their useful life they hold stories I want to hoard. I want to grasp the old, the worn, the unappreciated. I want a piece, I want its story. For me, tipi-like structures symbolise story-telling tradition and represent transience built on need and practicality. Current culture is too quick to move on, to trash, to forget, a place where transience is built on dissatisfaction and boredom. |
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Date: March – April 10 Title: The Last Picture Show Statement: What remains after the show is over … the memories, the experience, the old promotional materials no longer of use, and the paraphernalia of empty frames and test prints. |
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Date: January – February 10 Title: Overdrawn Statement: The initial idea for this piece was to remake/recycle a tree form from the chaotic tangled paper of shredded documents. I was interested in the possible narrative content of that process. |
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Date: November – December 09 Title: Inconstant Vision Statement: This installation is about the idea of connectedness with nature, something embedded in the earth, the organic and mineral intertwined. It incorporates reflections, both incidental and intentional, clear and obscured. It suggests history and pre-history which resonate with the present, with concerns for the environment. Are our actions reflected in our views of our changing planet? |
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Date: September – October 09 Title: Redundant Statement: The spine, also referred to as the backbone, offers support, stability and durability. Having your spine ripped out of you is a metaphorical term which has specific resonance today. |
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Date: August – September 09 Title: Untitled Statement: Small dwellings and outbuildings cut out from the context of a background, suspended disparately on wire and floating above a map drawn in sand laying on the floor. Are these photographs of dwellings we would inhabit? Although different types of buildings, built in different countries can we still find connections between them?' |
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Date: June – July 09 Title: Recycling of the Urban Space Statement: There is an endless cycle of architectural change as buildings deemed to old or no longer of value are demolished to make way for the new. Here a derelict façade left standing shows hints of the past lives that occupied it, while through the windows the 21st century shining towers of modern living can be seen. |
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Date: May – June 09 Title: Transience Statement: This installation is a response to urban development where layered metal grids form ghosts of buildings, new and old, floating and translucent; reflecting the cycle of demolition and regeneration. |