Events
Home | Karen TobinJane Phillips Award Residency
08 November - 09 November 2014
Home is the documentation of a series of walks undertaken by the artist in various cities throughout the UK presented as an installation in Mission Gallery. Tobin internally maps each city, making use of the quirks in the city’s architecture to help her to record her journey and successfully navigate each place. The walks are part of a familiarisation process, a way of ‘learning’ the city.
Visiting and revisiting these cities imbues each one with feelings of nostalgia. Having lived in Ireland all her life before moving to the UK 4 years ago, Home represents the artist’s desire to recreate a sense of belonging to a place. During her residency Tobin plotted her journeys on maps using the key points that have helped her identify the city.
To mentor, nurture and support the professional artistic growth of young, emerging artists across the Visual and Applied Arts.
Cardiff Contemporary is a Cardiff Council initiative co-funded by the Arts Council of Wales, developed in partnership with Cardiff’s visual art, design and architecture communities.
