'Tre'; project;Artists working on the theme of home










Barbara Ess
Images of rural communities often interpret then from a romantic point of view. Barbara Ess' s images show a more sinister side of the reality of the farming community.

Jennie Sa
vage; http://www.jenniesavage.co.uk/ Artist working on the theme of community, storytelling, 'place', history.
Anecdotal City Project; http://www.anecdotalcity.com/
Project involving interviewing people about their stories about Cardiff, recording th
ese interviews, then playing them on a touring bus.
Star radio project; http://www.s
tarradio.org.uk/
Set up a community radio station representing 4 areas of Cardiff city. People from the areas could come in and broadcast
their stories, anecdotes, etc. created an archive of the voices of people from this place.
'and then I returned to the sea'; http://www.jenniesavage.co.uk/6andthen/andthen.html
Collected 50 'true' ghost stories from around the coast of Britain. These stories were written, put into plastic bottles, and sent out to sea, each from the area of coast where the story was thought to have occurred.

Rachel Whiteread; 'House'








a concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian terraced house completed in autumn 1993, exhibited at the location of the original house — 193 Grove Road — in East London (all the houses in the street had earlier been knocked down by the council). It drew mixed responses, winning her both the Turner Prize for best young British artist in 1993 and the K Foundation art awardfor worst British artist.[4] Tower Hamlets London Borough Council demolished House on 11 January 1994,[5] a decision which caused some controversy itself.

The critical response included:

"A strange and fantastical object which also amounts to one of the most extraordinary and imaginative sculptures created by an English artist this century.

The Independent[6]

"Denatured by transformation, things turn strange here. Fireplaces bulge outwards from the walls of House, doorknobs are rounded hollows. Architraves have become chiselled incisions running around the monument, forms as mysterious as the hieroglyphs on Egyptian tombs."

The Independent[6]

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