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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Nottingham Trent University
Midlands and Tooraloorals
This solo exhibition, commissioned by the GEDOK Karlsruhe Künstlerinnenforum (The Women Artists Forum in Karlsruhe) was part of the celebration of 40 years of town twinning between Nottingham and Karlsruhe. The work combined the material heritage of Nottingham, represented by strips of lace, with Maier’s concern to engage with issues of gender, propriety and women’s work; transplaced into Germany near her own family heritage from past generations. (PPT2 slide 2-7)
Exploring some of the same themes as output 1, the exhibition was built on a body of work that stresses the use of site-specific installations and events to explore expectations of site, traditional values, ‘women’s work’ and labour, while altering the expected function of a location to contradict conventions.
In this body of work, Maier manipulates a location’s expected function and pushes beyond its original intentions such as; home/gallery, village notice board/exhibition venue, model space/public artwork site, domestic /institutional space. Using the site as a starting point, materials and events (with a nod towards Penelopian labour) work towards a collapse; of historical time through nostalgia for a past that never existed; contradictions of usual everyday events; or subtle interventions in unexpected locations.
This body of work has been represented since 2008 as follows:
National and International exhibitions: On Time: East Wing Collection 8 exhibition at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England (2008-2009) (ppt:10-12) The Broadcaster, curator notice board project, Lincolnshire (2011-2012) (ppt:16). Articles/features/reviews: On Time Exhibition Catalogue: Chloe Nelkin. (2008) (ppt: 13); Midlands & Toorloorals: exhibition review Dr. Hartnigk-Kummel, C. (2009) (ppt:7-8); Danica Maier. atelier. 162 (2), 1. (ppt:9); Lace: Pecha Cucha: Textile: the Journal of Cloth and Culture (2008) (ppt:15); Awards: Big Draw as part of On Time, which won runner up for prestigious inspiration award (Oct 2008) (ppt:14).
