'Desert Island Discs : 45 minutes : 136 episodes' 

2014

Watercolour installation direct to the wall

Part of ‘Three Act Structure’ - S1 Artspace Members Show

'Desert Island Discs : 45 minutes : 136 episodes' was created as a durational performative installation piece as part of the S1 Artspace members show 'Three Act Structure', over the summer of 2014.

It was devised to visually represent the time consuming nature and systematic processes involved in my practice but never normally witnessed by the viewer of the final work. 

During the creation of a previous large embroidered commission I had listened to 136 episodes of Desert Island Discs to keep me entertained. For this performance I worked my way back through that list, playing each episode out into the space and plotting brushmarks down the length of the gallery wall for the 45 minute duration of each episode.

Punctuation spaces were left between each episode which, as the work progressed, became more prominent in a way that referenced both phrasing in written speech and notes on manuscript - an interesting comparison to the structure of Desert Island Discs being a spoken interview interspersed with music.

The transient nature of this work meant that, upon completion of the exhibition, all the marks were removed to make way for the following installation. As a performance, the work only existed for the length of time it was being undertaken, and so maintained a sense of impermanence.