No.5 Balmoral was a group project based in an unused house in Fallowfield, Manchester. The idea was to each take a room or area of the house and use it to display our own workand styles.
I continued with my theme of interior decoration and wallpaper to create a piece of work for the hall and stairway of the house.
The idea for this exhibition developed from my contextual studies course at university in which i studied how images of apocalypse have been protayed in art. The study posed interesting questions about the existance of everything from the mundane to the spectacular and how everything has a shelf life. I chose to portray this view through the medium of wallpaper using hands-on techniques that would convey the concept of degradation and destruction in a delicate and fragile manner.
I used a 'pouncing' technique to apply a charcoal pattern directly onto the plastered walls. Due to the nature of the technique and material, the images oculd be easily smudged and brushed off the walls and so when the house was full of people at the opening, their presence and movement past the work ultimately destroyed it; physically showing its transcient nature.
If i was to reproduce this work, i would choose a more intricately detailed pattern that would perhaps be more visible in the space. I would also possibly record the work over time using video as well as photography to better record the process.
