Spring Clean
featuring Treve Dromgool and Amy Taylor

Exhibition 28 September - 8 October 2005

In this two woman show photography is employed by both artists to further their aims: to signify unseen and banal objects, symbolic of everyday myths. By giving the overlooked attention, an emotional condition is transformed into a physical state.

Neither artist claims to own or control this demanding and fussy medium. Or even to be a photographer, even. Amy - a sculptress, shows only one photographic image. Regular viewing from the gallery space is not possible; instead the artist isolates the viewer’s gaze, in an attempt to clarify the viewing experience.

Amy claims she often comes to a work unsure of ‘how to look at it’ and is often uncertain of where to physically place herself in the viewing space. Hopeful viewers will encounter no such confusion as they are encouraged up to the giddy perspective of our level one, the mezzanine. Amy’s subversion of the regular viewing of this image employs DIY construction techniques, and domestic garden furniture.

Treve’s work feature’s similar amounts control and subversion by the artist: as the victim of domestic chores her film has been activated, agitated and unlayered by the mundane processes of the domestic environment. She prints film that has been washed, baked and cleaned, the remaining images are as banal as the processes the film went through pre-processing.

She said "Spring Clean explores a disorientated domestic space potent with my own disbelief, cynicism and horror of its existence".