Tom Colebrook

This is a written proposal for the artwork I intend to show:

The Wheely Art Box & The Victorian Loo. (Working Title)

8 Photographs in total. Probably.

The photographs will be be images of the spaces they are to be shown in.
More specifically: of the surfaces, the details, the intricacies of each space.

The Photographs are to be mounted on to rigid thin panels (Material TBC) and lent against the walls of the space, on unimposing lengths of steel L or U section. A basic custom thin shelf essentially.

There are to be two spaces.

1.The Old Victorian (Cubicled) loo.

2.A wooden pallet on wheels, built up into an enclosed box, using chipboard on to a rudimentary frame, with a basic door and no roof. (Let’s call it the ‘Wheely Art Box.’) People interested in seeing the photographs can enter the box.

The work will attempt to cross pollinate the spaces through a kind of continuous information teleportation function, a loop; Photographs of each space will be available to view continuously within each others realm.

Images of Chipboard, on battered old Loo walls, Images of battered Loo walls on Chipboard. Like they’re in cahoots on a knowing harmonious material level. Sharing each other.

The Viewers will be invited to scrutinise each space in reality (material reality texture on offer here) and via the means of it’s representation – through the photographic copy. The simulacra.

The work will present elements of camouflage, the intimacy of banality, repetition of texture, and of course the championing of deterioration and dereliction.

The work is site specific, though there may be an opportunity for the Photographs and the Wheely Art box to live on in another time, another space, proclaiming the joys of itself and the Victorian loo somewhere else. Maybe.

It’s on wheels.