ALL I EVER WANTED, ALL I EVER NEEDEDby Lucy May Schofield
'All I Ever Wanted, All I Ever Needed'
by Lucy May Schofield
A site-specific window piece commissioned by Frank as part of the Whitstable Biennale Satellite Programme showing until July 06, 2008.
Lucy May Schofield's work concerns itself with memory, nostalgia, family and home; with the acts of recording, remembering and holding fast. Her practice whether, as here, in site-specific form, or as book art, box pieces, or stitched work is humorous, moving and brimful of the vicissitudes of life. In this piece she reimagines a treasured doll's house made for her by her Great Uncle Ernest from Scarborough: "A miniature replica of his ideal home delivered and unveiled in Muriel’s turquoise crystal sitting room." Furniture is suspended above the house caught in the act of falling, floating or flying. Inside the rooms of the doll's house an amalgam of the large and the small, of the everyday and the uncanny mingle and coexist almost in spite of each other.
Lucy May Schofield is represented in the collections of the Tate Britain Library and the Victoria and Albert Library, amongst others. She was artist in residence and now lectures at Manchester Metropolitan University and lives and works in Manchester. She was recently the recipient of Craft Central's 'Reflect Forward' award.
For the duration of the show Frank will be selling Lucy May Schofield artist books, letterpress stationery and a limited edition fabric White Rabbit to make at home.
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