These memory collection sessions create a tangible record of memory donations. Recording the way that the events are carried out allows me to understand them and repeat them, thereby enabling me to continue collecting further memories.
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Memory collection process
I asked participants to donate a personal memory on a 'memory donation form'. These are the trigger and starting point to create a collective memory bank.
Artist – Sophie Calle
"Take Care of Yourself" - in this artwork Calle uses intimate personal subject matter to create the artwork. She also uses group collective input in creating this piece.
Artist – Stephen Willats
This artist interests me because of his collaboration between artist and community. "A work of art can engage anyone meaningfully, being available to whoever wishes to enter its domain, only through embodying in its presentation the means by which people are able to acquire the neccessary language and procedures to recieve and internalise its meaning." [...]
Artists – Sam Mellish
I saw this exhibition at Ipswich Art School Gallery in 2011 Sam Mellish describes himself as a photojournalist. I found the exhibition interesting because of the relationship between imagery and text. The subject of this exhibition falls fully on the individual in focus in each photo-study.
Makeshift
This exhibition showed an edit of donated memories from previous collection events. These memories acted as triggers to prompt the audience to donate a memory whilst sitting at the school desk. The use of text and the lack of imagery resulted in a different interaction and response from the audience compared to stimulating reaction through imagery.
I Remember When…
Exhibition and workshop at Ipswich Art Gallery in December 2011. I began to collect and experiment with audience memories prompted by the childhood imagery I presented to them. This was the first instance of collecting 'memory donations', a direct collection provided by the participants.
My Tracy Island – 2011
Exhibition at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire. During the preparation for this exhibition I used objects from childhood along with the memories that I attached to them. i photographed abstracts of these objects and used poetic narrative to engage the audience. The exhibition asked the audience to question what they remembered from their own [...]
‘Object of Memory’ 2010
My exploration of memory continued with an exhibition that was carried out at The Contemporary Art Centre, Preston in 2010. 'Object of Memory' looked at my personal collection of childhood artefacts. It was an opportunity for metro experiment with the display of a visual output. It became Ann interaction and an ongoing dialogue between myself [...]
‘Car Boot Project’ 2009
The beginning of my thoughts and exploration into the relationship between identity and memory began in my Ba Fine Art (Hons) at UCLan. The culmination of my degree was an exhibition in which I collected/bought objects and ask for the memory that was attached to the item I had purchased. In the exhibition I presented [...]
Is Memory Identity?
This is the research question that I am currently exploring in my creative output. The context to this question is thus described: "An exploration of personal identity through memories. Opening up individuals' anecdotal realities to the personal perspective of others. Creating a tool that enables my collaborators and audience to question the delicate and changeable nature [...]
"Chase the Play not the Pay" 