BORDERLAND

Recent solo exhibition at Walcot Chapel, Walcot Gate, Bath BA1 5UG

29 October - 3 November 2024

Borderland is a series of intaglio print works that navigate loss and discomfort, focussing on the sense of loss, identity and discomfort produced through dislocation, displacement or exile.

The series emerged from a newspaper story about an El Salvadorian single father separated from his six-year old daughter at the US border.  Deported back to El Salvador, all he has left of his daughter is her fragile gauze dress hanging on the wall of his windowless one-room house.

The series includes a range of pinks, orange and bronze; colours that are both joyous and unsettling to evoke a borderland that hangs in memory and consciousness.  Clothes, once so carefully folded away, are stretched and pulled to reveal knotted and fragmented pasts.

“This is a deeply emotive & intensely vibrant exhibition reflecting the multiple currents of displacement, loss, exile and hope in (post) colonial global contexts”…written by Patricia Brien, UK-based curator, artist and researcher for the show Borderland at Two Bedford Street, Stroud in June 2024. Her work is focused on ecofeminism, myth and creative practice for ecological and social justice.