Sara Grisewood
Research Folio MA Painting UAL
Greenwall Map number 3
Greenwall Map number 4 with bag, rubble and wood fragments
Wall piece : 185cm x 209 cm. Floor piece : 174cm x 205cm. Materials : recycled paper, pva, found paper collage, cardboard, graphite, newsprint, wax crayon, found chalk, rubble collected from Phoenix demolition site, pieces of dismantled sculpture from studio, cotton canvas ties, found wood.
Shopping trolley filled with studio paper and plastic waste and studio sculpture piece.
Materials : cotton canvas dyed with dye made from buddleia flowers found on Phoenix industrial estate, existing shopping trolley frame, wood, acrylic paint, pva.
Greenwall Map number 1
Greenwall Map number 2, with bag, rubble,chalk and found timber.
Wall piece : 180cmx209cm, floor piece 190cmx215cm
materials : recycled paper, newsprint, pva, plastic tarpaulin, cotton canvas, graphite, wax crayon.
A Frame. materials : found bamboo, graph paper, pva, masking tape, collaged papers, hessian, plastic tarpaulin, found wire from old paper lampshade, paper coated wire, acrylic paint, sandbags made from cotton canvas dyed with buddleia dye.
11 Canvas sand bags dyed with natural dye made from buddleia flowers collected from Phoenix Industrial estate. Filled with paper rubbish from studio.
Greenwall off site / on site handmade book.
materials : canvas dyed with natural buddleia dye, paper, embroidery thread.
Hazard sticks (6)
materials : found bamboo sticks, graph paper, pva, acrylic paint, masking tape, re-purposed wire from old paper lampshades, cement cast in pva glue bottles.
Record box number 1.
materials : recycled paper containing notes and essay MA painting course, pva. Contents of box includes studio sweepings final day.
Edited statement for show :
My practice is concerned with post-industrial urban land use, exploring processes of demolition and rebuilding in our towns and cities. The work exhibited here relates to a brownfield site in Lewes, and to Green Wall, a medieval twitten*.
These areas have a long history of industry all based along the river Ouse, the main transportation for pig iron for the Phoenix Ironworks for example. Although I am fascinated with knowing the history of the sites I explore, it is in fact the atmosphere of absence, the lack of much tangible evidence, that I am interested in.
My practice incorporates wandering and exploring, drawing insitu, and collecting found materials from around the site. The different materials represent memories defunct industries; they are relics, little scraps, nothing valuable, including materials used for the kind of recent industrial buildings in this area - little traces of graffiti on breeze block, textile remnants, squishy cardboard and sodden chipboard, fragments of vinyl tiles with glue patterns on the reverse, plasterboard and rusty nails. These pieces are all that are left and barely constitute any clearly defined memories. My sister died at the start of this research and my wanderings have been in part an allegory of grief; how a seemingly unimportant piece of material can be imbued with memory, and what isn’t visible, the many layers of lives that were lived here, the histories of the people doing their washing by the town ditch along Green Wall.
*twitten - a Saxon word for alleyway.