Open Close
2017
Rebuilt
Painted steel
90 x 168cm (x2)
2017/2021
2017
Rebuilt
Painted steel
90 x 168cm (x2)
2017/2021
Orignally a temporary installation created for Open Close, an exhibition in the closes of the Royal Mile, Edinburgh held in 2017. Commissioned as a permanent public artwork by Edinburgh World Heritage in 2021 and remade in steel.
In 2017 these window spaces sat empty alongside the original railings under the word ‘Rebuilt’.
These historic railings were in disrepair and I saw this as an opportunity to respond directly to the existing vernacular of the close, so used the shapes and motifs in the existing railings as building blocks to create new designs.
This acts as a simple metaphor for the re-working or re-imagining of the closes and the new structures sit in conversation with the original fittings.
In 2017 these window spaces sat empty alongside the original railings under the word ‘Rebuilt’.
These historic railings were in disrepair and I saw this as an opportunity to respond directly to the existing vernacular of the close, so used the shapes and motifs in the existing railings as building blocks to create new designs.
This acts as a simple metaphor for the re-working or re-imagining of the closes and the new structures sit in conversation with the original fittings.
Glimpse
2017
Exposed silk screen and aluminium frame
112 x 142cm (x 3)
Temporary installation, Chalmers Close, Edinburgh.
Each frame is compositionally informed by the windows of the surrounding buildings which dominate and look into the close.
The imagery also references the architecture of the close and how it funnels our vision, inviting a reframing of otherwise overlooked details.
2017
Exposed silk screen and aluminium frame
112 x 142cm (x 3)
Temporary installation, Chalmers Close, Edinburgh.
Each frame is compositionally informed by the windows of the surrounding buildings which dominate and look into the close.
The imagery also references the architecture of the close and how it funnels our vision, inviting a reframing of otherwise overlooked details.
