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Lisa
Temple-Cox: Mind The Gap
Green Pebble Winter 2009/2010 issue
Take one pristine, store-bought garden shed and erect it, not in your garden,
but on an oblong of carpeting within the four walls of a gallery space.
Then take as many discarded, banged up, wooden doors as you can find, usually
from people’s skips, and use them to build another shed around your
new structure. What do you have? Either an extremely impractical shed for
your garden tools, or, more probably, a Lisa Temple-Cox installation.
Colchester
artist Lisa Temple-Cox loves working with boxes; big boxes such as sheds
and public toilets, and small, intimate wooden constructions such as curiosity
boxes and cabinets. Add to that a fondness for small, enclosed spaces in
general and suddenly these sheds are no longer a curiosity in a gallery
space; they’re about displacement and reconstruction; childhood and
adulthood; home and memories; and, very importantly, that space ‘between’
the two sheds.
Lisa’s ‘double-skinned shed’ idea came about during an
afternoon working in her allotment near Colchester. Tending to her plot,
she was reminded of a quote by Robert Rauschenberg about working ‘in
the gap between art and life’. Inspired, she began to formulate the
concept of two sheds with a created space between them.
‘My idea was to create a piece of work that embodied a place, but
to site it somewhere else, as I was as a child, with all these memories
and notions that get displaced; literally relocated. Also, my shed, it’s
not just that it’s a shed. It’s the Englishness of the structure
that means something to me. It represents my English side.’...
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Lisa Temple-Cox
works at Cuckoo Farm Studios in Colchester, Essex. Her work can be viewed
on Lisa Temple-Cox
