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This body of paintings continues Graham Chorlton’s research into the possibilities of representational painting within contemporary art practice.
In 2008/9 our research aimed to inform a proposed UK pilot of an expanded newborn screening service.
‘Signals’ is a choreographed live action performance made in response to a series of constructed sound loops that are triggered for the duration of the piece. It is based on an original set of sketches titled ‘Broom-Self/Mop-Spirit’ (1980) found in the Spect. Anon book by the late D. John Briscoe. The performance attempts to decipher fragments from the notes, drawings and typewritten texts, taking cues from invocations and litanies from the Egyptian Book of the Dead and suggesting relationships to breathing, air and marriage.
Archives, as a combination of individual artefacts from different contributors, times and locations, are where society builds its collective memories.