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I have been working with plaster for 10 years or more: setting images and metal within plaster blocks. It was only when I started to plan for this exhibition, in this church, that I began to recognise the importance of this building, its history and materials, in shaping my own work. As you enter this building, you see a section of a wall painting. This fragment remains, a far larger painting exists but is buried under a bone dry, mineral whitewash. What else is carried within these absorbent, ancient walls? Exhaled air, circulating in currents, probably settling on the floor and evaporating. But possibly, some of the moisture being exhaled by us and countless, nameless others has settled on the plaster walls and become absorbed and part of the fabric of the building. If true, the material is not only suggestive, evocative of the past but potentially embodying something real and physical from that past.
Fragmented vessels, sections of walls, belongings, dresses made by Phoebe and lines from poems that carry that power to take you instantly somewhere else are some of the ideas that I have tried to put into some shape for this exhibition. Thanks for coming.