This summer I had the honour of being part of the exhibition ‘Redressing The Balance: Women Artists From The Ingram Collection’. I am thrilled to connect you with the audio tour by esteemed Director & Curator of The Ingram Collection, Jo Baring.
Click here to browse a selection of short audio clips which make up a guided tour of the exhibition. Included in the guided audio tour are my three pieces 'Saving Our Souls' , 'The Journey of Our Parallel Lives' and 'Maze Fragment' .
About the exhibition
The exhibition at The Lightbox Museum explored the ideas and narratives behind paintings, sculptures, and performance-based artworks by female artists in The Ingram Collection, as part of an ongoing mission to address the imbalance of female representation in galleries, exhibitions and collections.
Three of my artworks, which were acquired by The Ingram Collection in 2019, were exhibited alongside key figures in the history of Modern British Art, such as Laura Knight, Barbara Hepworth and Elisabeth Frink, alongside emerging and established contemporary artists including Lucy Gregory, Chloe Wing Chow and Tahmina Negmat.
About the artworks
SAVING OUR SOULS (FROM THE NET DRAWING SERIES), 2019
Drawn by burning the surface of calligraphy paper - the medium being the scorch marks and perforations on the paper - this works abstractly deals with themes of war, famine and emigration in Ireland and globally, both past and present. The piece was created in response to John Behan's Ghost Boat works, upon special invitation from Royal Society of Sculptors and the Ingram Collection.
THE JOURNEY OF OUR PARALLEL LIVES, 2019
From walks all around the world the artist started keeping an abstract map, noting that every walk in the same place is different "in the particular path which seems to open up to the feet”. This artwork is about the invisible stories contained within landscapes and our journeys through them. This piece was created in response to Walking Group, a sculpture by Kenneth Armitage, upon special invitation from Royal Society of Sculptors and the Ingram Collection.
MAZE FRAGMENT, 2019
In the creation of this work Nicola Anthony was concerned with tangles, lines, the maze of words and the labyrinth of time, and studied the myth of Daedalus - “the greatest artist and the creator of the Labyrinth”. In Michael Ayrton’s book The Maze Maker, to which this artwork responds, Daedalus says “I never understood the pattern of my life, so that I have blundered through it in a maze.”
More about this exhibition here.
Saving Our Souls (detail), 2019, Nicola Anthony
