where rock and hard place meet, 2018. Digital photograph printed on fabric, looped video with audio, quarried rock. 6m x 2m.
Where Rock and Hard Place Meet (2018) is a fictitious site that releases the suppressed voices of women from the quarried rock found in and around Wirksworth, Derbyshire. In this work, a theatrical amphitheatre is occupied by a cyber-organism from the future, who voices a muddled collection of narratives mined from local archives and historical texts. Comprising testimonies about and from women who have been doubted, questioned and persecuted in different forms over the past seven centuries, the accounts are interspersed with contemporary newspaper articles and academic quotes to reveal a pattern of mistrust, accusation and injustice that continues to affect women’s lives in the 21st century.
Exhibited:
Songs of the Sirens - curated by John O’Hare, Caraboo Projects, Bristol 2019
where rock and hard place meet - curated by Livvy Punnett, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, 2018
where rock and hard place meet - curated by Livvy Punnett, Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth, 2018
A limited edition print series has been produced to accompany the exhibition and can be purchased through Haarlem Artspace. Images below.
Tongue Twister I (2018), Tongue Twister II (2018), Tongue Twister III (2018).
2 Colour Risograph 405mm x 285mm, Limited Edition of 12.
The Tongue Twisters (2018) series responds to vocal exercise training videos that are supposed to improve voice projection and confidence in female speakers. Presenting inspiring affirmations or cautionary statements, they can be applied to a variety of circumstances.