Like Love - Part Three
3 Jul 10 - 31 Oct 10
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in conjunction with Spike Island and the Bluecoat presents a new multi-media installation Like Love – Part Three by renowned British artist Sonia Boyce (1962). This exhibition includes a series of photographs and video installation inspired by the Museums permanent collection of decorative arts. Central to Boyce’s practice is the act of working with other people in what she terms “improvised collaborations”.
Inspired by the dolls house – a copy of Barlaston Hall, in the Museum’s collection and on display in the Changing Fashions gallery, Boyce has gone on an incredible journey into the world of miniatures, make-belief and the love and attention that goes into making objects.
In this third and last installment in the Like Love series Sonia works with the miniature artisan Sue Kirkham and re-stages a fictional narrative by emerging artist Rosalie Schweiker to produce an exciting new body of work.
This series has been an accumulative process, which in its widest sense explores universal ideas around the concept of care and community cohesion – the emotion we invest in others and in the making of works of art. Like Love will be documented in a joint publication at the end of the tour.
Taking as its inspiration Roland Barthes’, A Lover’s Discourse, Boyce uses a combination of labour intensive and utilitarian processes to underscore the testimony, adamant posturing, ambivalence, longing and sometimes-tenuous nature of loving relationships.
Like Love is commissioned by Spike Island and is an Arts Council England National Touring
Exhibition in partnership with the Bluecoat and The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.
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Like Love - Part Three
The Potteries Museum & Gallery
03 July – 31 Oct 2010
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For further information T: 07182 232323 or email: jean.milton@stoke.gov.uk
