firstsite contemporary art colchester

29 April – 20 May 2006
Jane Grisewood
Artist Space

Nayland based Jane Grisewood intends to use her time in firstsite’s Artist Space as an opportunity to move away from her earlier work on canvas to a more performance and conceptual based practice.

She is interested in mapping time and in measuring time.

In the past Jane’s work has looked at themes of repetition and line – creating dozens of identical canvasses wrapped and dyed – large abstract paintings of lines over colour.

That repetition is not lost in her new body of work for firstsite.

Striving to pin down the intangible concept of time, she has spent ten months regularly walking a route from her village home to the nearby burial ground.

Through this process the walk becomes both a physical mark on the landscape but is also representative of the time taken to complete the walk.

The physical walk becomes the physical representation of twenty minutes.

Trying to make this explicit connection between taking a walk and the time taken to complete the walk she intends to build upon this through the use of differing materials.

Walking across the landscape, cutting into the landscape and sprinkling a line of ash all feature in her work.

In a new work she filmed herself sprinkling Ash along the route of the walk on Ash Wednesday, moving into more performance based work.

In another work to give time form she walked the same path to the burial ground letting out string behind her as she went.

The string’s length captures the time of the walk. The 500 metre length of string might be used in Jane’s residency –wrapped between the two pillars in the space so the time becomes sculptural.

In a further attempt to represent time she will buy a copy of The Times every day she is in the Artist Space.

She will burn the newspaper each day and place the ashes in a vessel, these will be lined up to demonstrate the days passed.

The overall impact with this as the other pieces in her new assemblage is to measure her time in the Artist Space conceptually as well as visually.

	Jane Grisewood, Solitude II 29 April – 20 May 2006 Jane Grisewood Artist Space Nayland based Jane Grisewood intends to use her time in firstsite’s Artist Space as an opportunity to move away from her earlier work on canvas to a more performance and conceptual based practice. She is interested in mapping time and in measuring time. In the past Jane’s work has looked at themes of repetition and line – creating dozens of identical canvasses wrapped and dyed – large abstract paintings of lines over colour. That repetition is not lost in her new body of work for firstsite. Striving to pin down the intangible concept of time, she has spent ten months regularly walking a route from her village home to the nearby burial ground. Through this process the walk becomes both a physical mark on the landscape but is also representative of the time taken to complete the walk. The physical walk becomes the physical representation of twenty minutes. Trying to make this explicit connection between taking a walk and the time taken to complete the walk she intends to build upon this through the use of differing materials. Walking across the landscape, cutting into the landscape and sprinkling a line of ash all feature in her work. In a new work she filmed herself sprinkling Ash along the route of the walk on Ash Wednesday, moving into more performance based work. In another work to give time form she walked the same path to the burial ground letting out string behind her as she went. The string’s length captures the time of the walk. The 500 metre length of string might be used in Jane’s residency –wrapped between the two pillars in the space so the time becomes sculptural. In a further attempt to represent time she will buy a copy of The Times every day she is in the Artist Space. She will burn the newspaper each day and place the ashes in a vessel, these will be lined up to demonstrate the days passed. The overall impact with this as the other pieces in her new assemblage is to measure her time in the Artist Space conceptually as well as visually.