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I get slightly lost on the way to the ladies at Modern Art Oxford and stumble into a wonderful open studio housing work in progress by Tamarin Norwood. The doors of this working space are open to the public from Tuesday to Thursday between 1pm and 3pm right up until 9th February. After this date the products from the Artist’s residency will be on show at the gallery, in an exhibition opening on Valentine’s day. Normally I shy away from chatting to Artists on a residency, being scared I am standing in the way of their light bulb moment of creativity. Tamarin is so intelligent in sharing the techniques she has developed to craft her video art I feel compelled to stay much longer than necessary to understand her medium. The image she projects onto the white wall is dynamic but also has the composition of a traditional painting. After all it is an image of a simple shape made of colour placed on a gallery wall. Then the sound effects bring in a whole new dimension and interpretation to the piece I am privileged to be previewing. Her genre feels unique. My eyes follow a circle swirling over a white screen leaving a splintered flare of blue bits behind. The dot is traced back to the pen she presses into a glass surface and she keeps a hard copy of this to mark the journey the dot has been on. Tamarin mentions she has found the open studio experience positive and valuable. Personally I am quite thrilled to chat to a living Artist who seems more real to me than the celebrity Artists I encounter in the media. It’s great to connect the creative person to the work on display and understand the journey of the concept on the wall. I could have stayed a lot longer as Tamarin shares so much of the fascinating secrets behind her craft, but one of us has to keep time as the afternoon draws on and the exhibition date approaches. Her Keeping Time show at Modern Art Oxford looks set to convey fine art through the medium of video and is a date for the diary. Lita Doolan (DI Reviewer), 07/02/12 |
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