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Flood

Flood, 2012, was an installation at York St Mary’s commissioned by the York Museum Trust as part of a series that started in 2004 using the deconsecrated church as a site-specific context for the work produced. The artists fee (£6000) and exhibition (18 June-31 October 2012) was supported by Arts Council England and York Museums Trust. http://www.susanstockwell.co.uk/medium.php?category=ecology&image_id=2010-09-29-2 http://www.yorkstmarys.org.uk/Page/ViewNewsArticle.aspx?ArticleId=9

Stockwell’s research addresses how industrially disposable products and recycled materials can be used to develop technically complex and visually innovative artworks that engage audiences with questions of ecology and eco-sustainability. The work, constructed on site, was made from 4 tons of recycled computer components borrowed from the computer recycling company, Secure IT Recycling. This forms part of Stockwell’s sustained research into how sculpture and installation can effectively raise questions about eco-sustainability and yet, itself be ecologically efficient. As in many of her works, sponsorship was sought from industry to borrow the massive quantities of materials needed, in this case disused computer components which were broken down and then crafted into a spire-like sculptural form redolent of the church setting that has the highest spire in medieval York, before being returned to the recycling chain after the exhibition is over. http://susanstockwell.co.uk/commissions_main.php?project_id=41

http://www.susanstockwell.co.uk/medium.php?category=ecology&image_id=2010-09-29-2

The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue with an interview with the artist. There were also 2 public lectures by the artist in which members of the local community questioned Stockwell. The work led to public commissions, and other works being selected for exhibition, including Artist Interventions into the Collection York City Art Gallery 2011-12, reviewed in the Yorkshire Post

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/at-a-glance/main-section/it_s_the_british_empire_story_after_a_fashion_1_3614570

The exhibition was reviewed in the local, regional and national press:

The Guardian, 19 June 2012: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jun/19/exhibitions-ernesto-neto-cornelia,

BBC Radio York, 18 June 2012: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/york/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8754000/8754736.stm, The Yorkshire Post, 11 June 2012: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/art/Pouring-out-her-largescale-art.6371316.jThe York Press:http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/leisure/exhibitions/8239814.Artist_Susan_Stockwell_s_Flood__York_St_Mary___s_until__October/