recent works. zoë mendelson

Pile tours to Chapter, Cardiff

Pile will be at Chapter, Cardiff until 20 March.

Look at the 'news' page at my website for details or read a review of the show here.

Diepsel at Galerie 37, Haarlem, The Netherlands

New works at Town Hall Hotel, London

photo Angus Mill

Collages for 'Waking Archive' lightboxes

Work in progress at Town Hall Hotel

Safecarder - a work in progress: lightbox installed in an old safe at Town Hall Hotel, London E2

Four works commissioned for Bethnal Green Old Town Hall

http://artsadmin.co.uk/opportunities/bursary.php?id=15

and

http://www.townhallhotel.com/design-art-project.html

to see details of works in progress in East London

Reconditioning my great grandfather's hospital

Part of a series of images with an accompanying text

Open studio (18 - 20 September 09)

Projectile

Cyclo-teacher performance

Studio

Mirage 1 (If you lived here you'd be home by now). 2008

The Projectionist's Illusion (temporal work), Gennevilliers 2008

Collages for the Detroit Project

Brighton Pavilion

The title sequence in American Beauty

Matta Clark's Paris

Sin Podium. Monday 15 June

I will be performing new written/drawn work - from my novel-in-progress 'The Detroit Project - at the below event on 15 June.

Please come along and listen to the speakers, music and discussion.

SIN PODIUM: Speaking of Writing 15TH JUNE 2009

Presentations and discussion on forms of writing and speaking in Fine Art research.

A one-day event at The Museum of English Rural Life.

10.30am - 6.00pm

M.E.R.L: The Museum of English Rural Life
University of Reading
Redlands Road
Reading
Berkshire
RG1 5EX

Attendance is free but booking is essential Please reserve a place by writing to: sinpodium@yahoo.co.uk

Sin Podium will feature a performance of improvised music by Phil Minton (voice) and Dominic Lash (double bass).

http://sinpodium.wordpress.com

After Charcot collages

Installation at the CRAC, Alsace. Oct 2008 - Jan 2009

Pages from a book - moleskin project

Current research interests

My research brings together interests in museology, architecture/ function and psychological space.

I have a multi-disciplinary practice with drawing pivotal, and relationships sustained between temporal and perennial supports. I mostly make drawing, collage, sculpture and site-specific installation.

I create embellished worlds manipulating idealised spaces and gentility and employing their codes as a cover for seductive excess and psychiatric ‘disorder’. My work takes place on paper, walls, and within communication devices and objects. With conflicting roots in decoration and the functionality proposed by Modernist thought, these dislocated narratives play off intimations of desire, awkwardness and reason.

Painstakingly drawn, these fictions become obsessive and analogue mechanics are referred to in the work as allegories for process. Defunct slide/film projectors, staged as illusory devices, are switched off and allowed to falsely ‘project’ detailed drawings directly onto the wall.

The works relate to each other archivally: Sculptural/object-based pieces become museological and have the irritating arrogance of weight and historical association. Paper works allude to workings-out or chronicling of thought-processes. My wall-drawings are often fleeting – not unlike building elaborate sandcastles before high tide. The different media become vehicles for shifting notations of histories/case studies. They are linked thematically and by a labour-intensity regardless of longevity.

I am currently writing a novel (The Detroit Project) across dimensions and have been awarded AHRC funding towards a doctorate which includes its development. It concerns the altering function and psychology of architectural space and is in textual, drawn and theatrical form.

recent works. zoë mendelson

Upcoming exhibitions

Pile tours to Chapter, Cardiff

Symposium of Collectors

Drawn Down Blind

Diepsel at Galerie 37, Haarlem, The Netherlands

New works at Town Hall Hotel, London

Collages for 'Waking Archive' lightboxes

Work in progress at Town Hall Hotel

Four works commissioned for Bethnal Green Old Town Hall

Reconditioning my great grandfather's hospital

Model Castle

Open studio (18 - 20 September 09)

Turning into a cinema

Performance documents

St Elmo: Light boxes

Mirage 1 (If you lived here you'd be home by now). 2008

Mirage 2 (Unstuffed). 2008

The Projectionist's Illusion (temporal work), Gennevilliers 2008

Collages for the Detroit Project

Collages for the Detroit Project

Sin Podium. Monday 15 June

After Charcot collages

Installation at the CRAC, Alsace. Oct 2008 - Jan 2009

Pages from a book - moleskin project

Current research interests

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