DUST at Hovel

Here is a sample of pictures from DUST, my exhibition/intervention at Hovel in Camberwell, South London in 2009.

For full details about DUST, including visiting times and the DUST Pamphlet, please see the earlier posts below.

DUST table collection

Heap/Hole film
Scissors
White flower
Two small keys...
Stone with hole
Dust and fluff
Plastic twist
Wire/flex fragment
Tiny envelopes
Cassette tape fragment
Used Rawl plug
Text on cardboard
Broken spectacles
'Road gems'/broken glass
Headache pill packaging
Ink drawings...



...crumpled paper
Broken plaster sculpture - ankles
DUST pamphlet with ribbon
Dust ball from the floor...

DUST - some pictures

Some pictures from DUST, in the living room - see earlier posts for details of the exhibition








Ink on paper, oil on canvas, watercolour, printed text.

DUST at Hovel

DUST
Gail Burton
The sixth intervention by an individual artist at Hovel

Exhibition open from Saturday 7th November until Sunday 22nd November 2009
Private View on Sunday 8th November, 4pm to 8pm
Opening hours:
Saturday and Sunday 12 to 6pm
Weekdays by appointment
Hovel is located in Camberwell, South London. For the address, or to make an appointment to visit, please phone 020 7703 6337 or email hoveltenant@googlemail.com


Dust, the Victorian term for all manner of waste or rubbish: a valuable substance that told the story of the lives that produced it; a heap to be carefully categorised and searched through; a point in a process. For the sixth intervention at Hovel, Gail Burton has created a collection of paintings and mixed media works exploring the connections between looking (looking for, looking at), the unseen and memorialisation. A narrative of dirt, of contemporary London's invisible dust-economy, interweaves with portraits of long dead people, painted from miniature Victorian photographs on mourning jewellery. The names of the Victorians who mourned, and were mourned, are lost, but their images connect us to the act of remembering. As a traditional ballad, 'The Housewife's Lament' sings 'There's nothing that lasts us but trouble and dirt'. Dust and dirt remember us; we live on in unseen ways.

DUST Pamphlet

As part of my intervention at Hovel I produced a pamphlet entitled 'DUST'. The pamphlet contains a sequence of short texts I have written regarding the bin scavengers, whom I have observed, and other reflections on filth. The text is interspersed with illustrations, which connect my observations of dirt and searching with loss and memorialisation. The pamphlet is A5 size, printed on 95g acid free paper and is hand stitched. It is printed in an open edition, each copy signed and numbered.

Hovel Residency

For the next two weeks I am undertaking a residency for Hovel, a project created in a domestic space in Camberwell, South London. My residency will result in an intervention in the space, culminating in an exhibition. I have been preparing for my intervention by creating a series of paintings, which respond to a collection of Victorian mourning jewellery, and developing ideas of the rubbish heap, both of 'olden' and contemporary times. I will post full details of the exhibition, when my residency is underway.

In the meantime, I would like to announce that the exhibition will open on Saturday the 7th of November 2009, until Sunday the 22nd November, and there will be a private view on Sunday the 8th of November, from 4pm until 8pm. Feel free to email me for further information at gailburton2@hotmail.com.

Honesty Box at Arnold Circus

On Sunday 26th July I am doing an Honesty Box, with Clare Qualmann, at the Arnold Circus Picnic. The event will take place on and around the Arnold Circus Bandstand, on the Boundary Estate, E2, from 2pm to 8pm. Please come along and have a look for the box amongst the foliage of the Circus – it may move around so do give me a ring if you can’t find it!

For more information about the Honesty Box, and pictures and log from our recent Camberwell Honesty Boxes, please visit Honesty Box

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