Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. Explore a collection of works created at lightning speed over an intense two week period. Repetition is the resurgence of a distant memory... Extraction, accumulation, destruction. Art born out of art. Re-used, re-cycled, re-materialised, re-ordered. I wanted the rawness and the authenticity to come through my photos. I feel they are capturing pure moments within my weekend away, they arent perfect and thats exactly what i wanted. Salt, white, green, and red pepper, vinegar preserve and deconstruct unfolding thoughts. Kites draw lines on a cloudy canvas, where nostalgia flows, where depression grows, how sharp the wind must blow. Pseudo-c*nt has landed in my backyard and crushed my azaleas.
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Shop window in Amsterdam
text based installation
“My installation for the White column centers around my mental health and my current feelings towards various aspects of my life.
I wrote some of the text previously but I came up with most of it when I was in space, I feel like this gave the installation a performative edge.
To say I felt observed whilst I was creating this installation would be an understatement; the large glass windows and beaming sunlight made me feel like I was in a fish tank or like I was in a shop window in Amsterdam.
Putting on a show whilst people are watching and reading about your very real emotions from the otherside of a glass wall felt very visceral and grotesquely disconnected. I didn’t like this aspect and it made me feel like something was lost in the writing when viewed from the outside; the fact that it took me 5 hours to create and install and 10 minutes to tear down also took body away from the text, it made it seem inconsequential and trivial. Now it exists purely on a website, adds another layer on top of what it was to begin with and moves the viewer even further away from the rawness and emotionality of the text.”
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The Legend of Tsar Sultan
The following images document the performances and installations made by MA Fine Art student Paul Tranter over 12 hours on Thursday 17 April 2024.
The performance and installations were inspired by the gift of ninety eight plates in protective packaging boxes by Ivan Jones to the Leeds School of Arts who hoped that: ‘someone will find a use for them’.
The title of the exhibition is taken from a hand written note by Ivan on one of the boxes.
The three paintings hanging on the gallery walls are works by the artist from previous White Column shows and were installed to give the work ‘Ninety Eight Plates’ the sense that it was taking place in a gallery with a current exhibition in place.
The exhibition starts with the installation of ‘Ninety Eight Plates’ as a stack on top of a plinth accompanied by two stacks of protective packaging boxes, adding three new columns to the White Column gallery.
Everything else in the exhibiton is inspired by the subsequent toppling of the plates.