Rosslynd Piggott works in a wide range of media including painting, sculpture and mutable installation. Her works are characterised by their formal fragility and their use of objects closely identified with the body: particularly clothing. At the Bluecoat Art Centre she has installed two works responding to two very particular spaces. In each case the defining characteristics of the installation are the given qualities of the architecture.
Rosslynd will exhibit small decorative interventions in this space. Parting Note and Silver Lining will be delicate detailed objects made from materials such as silver, pearl, and engraved glass. Her work entitled Arranged Meeting: Breath of Two Men, will consist of two blown glass cylinders. One of these cylinders will be blown by a glass-blower in Melbourne, the other in Liverpool. The breath of the two glass blowers will be captured and preserved within the sealed glass cylinders and will 'meet' and be displayed in The Bluecoat Gallery.
Another room forms a corner between the hall and the main gallery. An arched alcove dominates one wall, while another contains beautifully framed windows that look out onto the garden. There is also a large convex mirror above one of the two doors that acts as a surveillance device. Meaningful intervention into sites as specific as this one is particularly difficult, but Piggott's La Somnambule elegantly animates the room. Two suspended silk dresses conjure the ghosts of the building's Georgian past. Their implied passage through the space is echoed in the polished surface of the mirror, which repeats the arch and the lunettes of the windows.
[LESS]Rosslynd Piggott works in a wide range of media including painting, sculpture and mutable installation. Her works are characterised by their formal fragility and their use of objects closely identified with the body: particularly clothing. At the Bluecoat Art Centre she has installed two works responding to two very particular spaces. In each case the defining characteristics of the installation are the given qualities of the architecture.
Rosslynd will exhibit small decorative interventions in this space. Parting Note and Silver Lining will be delicate detailed objects made from materials such as silver, pearl, and engraved glass. Her work entitled Arranged Meeting: Breath of Two Men, will consist of two blown glass cylinders. One of these cylinders will be blown by a glass-blower in Melbourne, the other in Liverpool. The breath of the two glass blowers will be captured and preserved within the sealed glass cylinders and will 'meet' and be displayed in The Bluecoat Gallery.
Another room forms a corner between the hall and the main gallery. An arched alcove dominates one wall, while another contains beautifully framed windows that look out onto the garden. There is also a large convex mirror above one of the two doors that acts as a surveillance device. Meaningful intervention into sites as specific as this one is particularly difficult, but Piggott's La Somnambule elegantly animates the room. Two suspended silk dresses conjure the ghosts of the building's Georgian past. Their implied passage through the space is echoed in the polished surface of the mirror, which repeats the arch and the lunettes of the windows.
