red sleeping beauty

2019, Installation of acrylic and oil paintings on paper, fabric, drawings, found objects (bottles, puppets, photographs, textbooks, lightbulbs), desks and stools, Dimensions variable

Red Sleeping Beauty was the result of my stay at the Old School Residency in Gorna Lipnitsa, Bulgaria, during the summer of 2019. The residency took place in the former primary school of a rural community. The final installation was a direct response to the environment of the school, as it consisted of found material from within the school grounds, as well as original paintings produced during my stay there.

Regeneration and playfulness in the abandoned space, situated within the post-communist context. 

The installation is a large-scale collage and in a staged state of collapse. Each element exists in relation to one and other. The border between each element is an active border. An aesthetised collision.