A Fuller Acquaintance with the Archipelago
You are invited to explore ‘A Fuller Acquaintance with the Archipelago’, a co-created Lilliputian world - a play of sculptural islands - a visual dialogue between the literal and the imaginative.
Living in St Leonards, interdisciplinary artist, Sinéid Codd is drawn to the transitory relationship with the edges of land. Her work is derived from found objects that connect her with themes of loss, longing and hope - in part, an act of transformative repair. Aligned with her involvement as a socially engaged practitioner, she looks to embrace a multitude of interpretations in her work.
The seeds of her archipelago came from the feeling of abandonment from UK leaving Europe and developed in response to Covid-19 and our climate emergency. The fossilized and cast islands, made from found objects, elicit reflections on community and climate change. They can be perceived as environments of isolation and self-generating material entanglements.
In 2020, the archipelago was installed and documented in a vast, raw, unmade space in the Observer Building; earlier in 2024 she exhibited an interaction of the archipelago with Hastings Museum & Art Gallery that included islands, paintings and photographs.
Sinéid Codd studied MFA at UAL, Camberwell College of Arts, 2016.
Her work has been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally and supported by a-n, SPACE London and Arts Council England.
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