Helen Dearnley
Labyrinths 2011
“Fictions”
18 September – 24 September Gallery @ St. Martin’s, Lincoln
This new body of work marks a departure from previous themes in my art practice, an instinctive move towards more sculptural and architectural work illustrating the writings of Jorge Luis Borges. My conscience wrestles with the fact that I initially intended to create a series of illustrations, so the work is a memory expressed sculpturally, as sculptural illustrations. Illustrations will develop from this work.
From the Garden Of Forking Paths, I have expanded upon the original text to incorporate personal memories of feeling at the moment my father died, that I was transported to the Pavilion Of The Limpid Solitude, which became a greenhouse, a labyrinth, a memory and an encyclopaedia.
My earliest memory of Dad is as perspicuous as the glass panes of the veridian pavilion in which it resides, running through seemingly endless greenhouses as darkness pursued seditiously through those vast steel and kryptonite prisms.
The greenhouses were composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite forest of steel and glass, each rectangle multiplying the perception of space by its repetition, with beds of plants growing within, and interspersed with irrigation channels that broke up the consistency of the horticultural flower beds, where growth is perpetually illuminated by the twilight of the next greenhouse. I inferred from the greenhouses that they were infinite, those glass cathedrals of Mother Nature’s son.
Works
All prints are digital imagery on mirror board with foil
“Fauna Of Mirrors” and “Funes The Memorious” 2011
“The Pavilion Of The Limpid Solitude” 2011 Mixed media
“The Garden Of Forking Paths” 2011 Found objects
“Fauna Of Mirrors” 2011 Foil, Chinese lantern, text from Jorge Luis Borges
“Funes The Memorious” 2011 Foil, rebound book
“The Alicanto” 2011 Found objects
Helen Dearnley 2011 character from "The Garden Of Forking Paths"
Helen Dearnley 2011
"Funes The Memorious"
Digital print on mirror board
Helen Dearnley 2011
"The Fauna Of Mirrors"
Digital print on mirror board
Helen Dearnley 2011
"The Pavilion Of The Limpid Solitude"
Found objects
Helen Dearnley 2011 character from "The Garden Of Forking Paths"
Helen Dearnley 2011 Untitled
Helen Dearnley 2011
"The Fauna Of Mirrors"
Sculpture
"...the Fish was a shifting and shining creature that nobody had ever caught but that many had said they had glimpsed in the depths of mirrors." Jorge Luis Borges "The Book Of Imaginary Beings"
Helen Dearnley 2011
Untitled
Found objects
Helen Dearnley 2011
"The Pavilion Of The Limpid Solitude"
Found objects
Helen Dearnley 2011
"Funes The Memorious"
Found object - reappropriated diary
Helen Dearnley 2011
"Alicanto"
Mixed media
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