Book of Love, 2016-2017, 14 metre, gouache on paper, paintings and monoprints
Pictures of you, 2017, oil paintings on wood panel, (x 5)
Installation: Flare, MA Exhibition Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge School of Art, 2017
“This installation limited the physical distance between my painting ‘Window’ which was hung on the wall, and the viewer. The ‘Book of Love’ was installed on the floor directly below it, causing the viewer to have to look up and down, and side to side to view each piece. The effect being that the viewer could not look at just one image at a time.
I have altered how I perceive my own work and found it useful to look at it in terms of everyday technological practices used to make and disseminate the work, interfaces, sources from which I gain the imagery and then make work from.
I found making the ‘Book of Love’ to be pivotal in instigating format and installation changes, making me reconsider the way I want my paintings to be seen. Using the book as a container to house private and personal paintings and allowing them to be viewed through unfolding, forced me to expose the fragility of my personal work and to trust the viewer to care for the life, my life, that was depicted on its pages. This created a new relationship between the viewer and myself.”
Emma Copley
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