Fri 17 June, 5 – 8pm
In Certain Places Project Space
38 St Peters Street, Preston, PR1 7BS
Exhibition continues until 19 June
In Certain Places is delighted to host ‘Cracked Egg’ – a project developed in response to the copious work of Preston artist Christopher Joseph Holme (1952 – 2010).
Over the past year five creative practitioners; Aliyah Hussain, Clara Casian, David Wilkinson and Michael Redmond have been commissioned by curator Lauren Velvick to work with, and to respond to the remarkable collection of the artist’s work. Holme was an unknown painter who might be referred to as an ‘outsider artist’, but whose work comprises extensive paintings, sketchbooks and diaries.
Each artist had a prior interest in, or affinity with ‘outsider art’, and through their individual observations have produced responses in writing, drawing, photography, film and sound that deal with place, family, cultural history and the nature of collections. These bodies of work are presented as interlocking chapters in a publication, designed by Lisa Lorenz and produced and edited by Lauren Velvick.
To celebrate the culmination of this project the resulting new work by Hussain, Casian, Wilkinson and Redmond will be installed in the In Certain Places Project Space, which has served as a base for the project. The publication, Cracked Egg, will be available to browse and purchase with complementary online content also available. The event also serves as a further experiment into the methods of display for this work, which is at once disturbing and humorous, anchored in time and relevant to the present.
Over the course of the weekend David Wilkinson will also lead two guided walks that draw on his interest in psychogeography to physically explore the sites that were depicted by, or important to Holme. These include a route that passes that artists’ childhood home in the terraces of Plungington, and the repurposed workhouse on Watling Street Road that was once the Sharoe Green Hospital asylum. The second walk takes in the Fishwick area of Preston, where Holme lived during one of his most productive, but also turbulent periods.
Click here to book the Plungington and Sharoe Green walk.
Click here to book the Fishwick walk.