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6/10/2003

Two exhibitions

The Blue Gallery, London

Private views: Tuesday 7th October 6 - 8.30pm


Main Gallery:
Landscape
an exhibition of work by

Emily Allchurch
Sophie Aston
Robert Davies
Duncan Higgins
Lisa Cole Kronenburg
Steve McPherson
Graham Rich
Stephen Taylor
Mark Thompson
Eric Watson

October 8th - November 1st 2003

An exhibition that does what it says in the title.

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Project space:

2 Willow Road
by
Veronica Bailey

October 7th- November 1st 2003

The Directors of the Blue Gallery are pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Veronica Bailey with a body of work entitled 2 Willow Road.

A library is a resource of intellectual and cultural material, most commonly present in the form of books. Such material can be either privately held or open to public access, but either way it inadvertently serves as a reflection of the social and aesthetic values prevalent during its development. Veronica Bailey's 2 Willow Road focuses on a specific such archive, housed within a family home at that address in Hampstead, north London. The celebrated modernist architect Ernö Goldfinger designed and built the house in 1939 and resided there with his family until his death in 1991. Now entrusted to The National Trust, it has been open to the public since 1996.

The laden shelves that span its concrete walls bear a fascinating amalgam of reading material, which reflects both his concerns as a radical architectural theorist and practitioner as well as his personal aesthetic and philosophical preoccupations. His wife, the artist Ursula Blackwell, also left a significant mark on the collection. Indeed their library at Willow Road provides an alternate, delineated portrait of two driven individuals with interconnecting careers in architecture and the visual arts. The relationship was in no small part founded upon absorbing, challenging and liberating ideas from disciplines ranging from anthropology to literature, politics and sociology, in fact all aspects of contemporary life.

Given that Ernö and Ursula's books, and more specifically the pages - even paper - which form them, can provide the metaphorical building blocks of their public and private lives, Bailey's series of images illuminate this through the
visual evidence of the book edge itself. During a spell of being a volunteer guide at the house, she naturally developed her own sense of the lives of and relationship between these two people. To her the library held the key and by filtering through an array of apparently disparate volumes, Bailey offers her own interpretation utilising nothing more than a book's title and its physical presence. In the course of this, she obviously shirks conventional narrative, instead suggesting past relationships and encounters from the ghost traces amongst the fingered leaves - fashioning a pseudo-portrait out of the linear abstraction of the book edges themselves.

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