Louise Cunningham Fine Art

Research for Sabden site works. 

Trying to find more singular words about place that communicate and raise questions about the concepts of place and home.  I am currently working on a sculptural piece, an old dolls house that used to be my mothers, then mine. I am preserving the Doll’s House as it is apart from one room which I am going to change, include images of now, and how my home, and the people and place i have grown up have shaped me as a person. It is a generational home that has always lived in a home and will get passed down. It is objects like this that are the containers of memories, stories, a time in our lives. 

“I got interested in the way [the words] varied between regions,” says Smith. So he decided to start mapping them. This year, inspired by a query from the landscape linguist Robert McFarlane, he returned to the project, and recently completed a set of maps of the U.K., twisted all over with different words for “stream.”

My next project for home is going to be something to do with maps and memories. 

Dissertation stuff

Looking at ways of building connections with the community through art so that the art produced provide the vision of the whole identity of the community rather than just my own. I have been looking at Lucy Lippards notion of “place ethics” as a guide to how to conduct community based and local art projects.