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Artworks in The Creative Compass

This exhibition of newly commissioned works by the Royal Geographic Society was shown alongside work by Agnes Poitevin-Navarre. Stockwell's pieces addressed the Society’s remarkable collection of maps and atlases as part of her 5 month residency (funded £5000). Her research uses maps, textiles and currency to produce intricate sculptures and prints that examine the geo-politics of mapping, commodity trading and global finance. Stockwell ‘s work investigates the marginalised role of women in Empire using maps transformed into dresses and banknotes as maps to meaningfully question issues of historical agency, imperialism and domesticity. 8 works comprise this submission: Afghanistan - a Sorry State (68x56x4cm , 2010); America - an Imperial State (88x56x4cm,2010); China Gold (56x69x5cm,2010); Empire Builders (8m x6m, 2010); Colonial Dress (life size, 2010) and Money Dress (life size,2010), and Red Road Arteries London 1 & 2 (both 1m x98cm,2009 & 2010).

Co-curated by Vandana Patel and Teresa Cisneros, the 32 page catalogue published by the RGS featured 12 of Stockwell’s work, an essay by Harriett Hawkins and an interview by Paul Goodwin (ISBN 978-0-907649-92-2). The exhibition was supported by the Arts Council England, Lottery Funding, and INIVA, and included a public lecture (30 June 2010).

http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/Exhibitions/Past+exhibitions.htm

The exhibition marked a collaboration with INIVA who commissioned a window piece River of Blood (£1,000) complimenting their show 'Whose Map is it: New Mapping by Artists’ http://www.iniva.org/exhibitions_projects/2010/whose_map_is_it (1 June – 23 July 2010). The culmination of a 3 year educational mapping project entitled 'Creative Mapping', www.iniva.org/learning/creative_mapping Stockwell worked with East London schools and colleges. Featuring in the catalogue, Whose Map is it: New Mapping by Artists (INIVA: London, 2010), there was a symposium (18 June 2010) where Stockwell presented her research entitled ‘Transforming the Everyday'.

Reviews: Helen Sumpter: ‘Treasured Maps’, Time Out, 10-16 June 2010; Aesthetica Magazine blog http://aestheticamagazine.blogspot.com/2010/06/whose-map-is-it-is-latest-show-to-open.html Spatial analysis http://spatialanalysis.co.uk/tag/creative-compass/