Detail of Undated Fragments on Unofficial Paper 2016
Plaster casts, library books and library shelves
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UCL Main Library British History section
Detail of Undated Fragments on Unofficial Paper 2016
Plaster casts, library books and library shelves
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UCL Main Library English Literature and British History sections
Detail of Undated Fragments on Unofficial Paper 2016
Plaster casts, library books and library shelves
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Materials Museum: Slade School of Fine Art
Installation view Undated Fragments on Unofficial Paper 2016
Plaster casts, library books, display case, green tape and library ladder
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UCL Art Museum
Installation view of Undated Fragments on Unofficial Paper2016
Plaster casts, library books and library shelves
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UCL Art Museum
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A dispersed sculptural intervention inhabiting various locations at UCL, and a bespoke archive. Highlighting the absence of archival material relating to Slade alumna (1893-1897), Irish Revolutionary and Britain’s first female MP (1918) Countess Markievicz.
Sentenced to death for her role in the 1916 Rising against British occupation of Ireland. Markievicz was released under a General Amnesty from the British.
Taking its title from a description of unsanctioned letters Markievicz sent whilst imprisoned. The work consisted of casts of each book Markievicz appeared in the index of. The casts replaced the original books on the shelves and the original books formed an archive in the museum.
Nina Pearlman, 2018, Disruptors and Innovators: Journeys in gender equality at UCL, UCL Culture
Nina Pearlman, 2018, 'Curating Equality', Passing In: Access and Influence in Higher Education, 21st November, UCL Art Museum
Anne Walsh, 2018, "For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else: absences in the catalogue and their role in critical thinking", Networks, Tastes and Material Culture, The University of Manchester
3rd Dimension: The PMSA Magazine (2017) ‘Undated Fragments on Unofficial Paper at UCL Art Museum’Arrington, L. 2016, ‘What to make of Constance Markievicz?’ In: The Irish Times 12th November 2016