NEARLYTHERE
26 March - 3 May 2012
Our urban landscape is full of words. Be it advertising, signage or
graffiti, text permeates our conscious through its repetition and banal
presence. Sarah Nolan plays on these ideas with the installation
NEARLYTHERE - the density of the words stacked within the gallery space
seemingly vibrating with the hum of the traffic.
It
reminds us of the drag of lights as one passes quickly in the traffic,
only half recognisable reduced to blazing trails of colour. And yet upon
closer inspection, Sarah's font is meticulously crafted from fabric
remnants. NEARLYTHERE is the collision of domestic and public space.
Hovering
on strings there is something tenuous about this installation. Is it
meant to be read? Or just absorbed for its obsessive aesthetic play?
The process in making this work and installing it was a laborious one
and not unlike a piece of embroidery, Sarah found herself consumed by
its intricacy. It is an interesting place for an artists to engage with
an artwork on a very intimate or micro level, and yet remain alert to
its spatial engagement with the scale of the street. Simply NEARLYTHERE
is a mantra is a mantra of persistence in our urban grind.
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