Graduates, Camberwell BA Painting '09
We graduated from Camberwell BA Painting in June 2009 now share a studio in Bermondsey. This project is our first collaboration.
We have been selected to participate in the Market Estate Project. Market Estate is a 1960s housing estate which is being demolished and rebuilt for the community. But before the bulldozers move in they are inviting 50 artists to take over the flats and make a 'creative playground' of the empty flats, facades and public spaces.
We are going to re-create a 1960s room (the kind that may have once populated the building) but with the entire interior coloured fluorescent yellow. We have decided to use fluorescent yellow because of the many things it is used to represent in every day life: safety, danger, authority, rebellion and hope. These themes can be seen to resonate with concerns arising once more in today's society as well as the imminent demolition of this building. Furthermore, the colour can be read as a caricature of the nuclear age due to its violent glow. Like the 'space city' architecture of this building, nuclear power was supposed to herald harmony and prosperity, instead results yielded unforeseen, sometimes catastrophic, side-effects. It is our aim that the ubiquitiousness and luminosity of the colour will alter the viewer's perceptions of time, space and the formal nature of the objects in the room.
We are currently working on this project so would like to share images of work in progress and discuss how the work is developing.
The Market Estate Project Event will be on 6 March 2010 open to the public for one day only – before the estate is demolished.
Bradley Hayman makes this comment
Tuesday 9 February, 2010