Chris Meigh-Andrews returns
May 8, 2007
After researching some artists who specialize in installation such as Tracey Emin, Chris Meigh-Andrews sticks out as the artist whose work is most like mine in the respect that he incorporates history, New media and the manipulation of gallery space. For example In his piece For William Henry Fox Talbot (The Pencil of Nature) 2002 instead of pysically manipulating the exhibition space he brings the window from Lacock Abbey to the V&A museum through the use of an ISDN line. However this doesn’t necessarily tackle the issue of putting private objects into a public space like my piece, it does bring something into a museum that originally was only seen by the visitors of Lacock Abby, although this was the subject of Fox Talbots first photograph the realtime aspect of Meigh-andrews piece brings Lacock Abbey to the V&A. Similarly the idea of recreating of my Uncle’s living room brings the physical nature of his surroundings to a gallery space but with the ephemeral nature of digital it brings part of his life and experience from outside the room. I will continue to look at the difference between recreating an environment and actually just transferring one environment to another like the installation by Tracey Emin My Bed 2002
