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Fork and Knife

Paul  Laider
Helen  Smith

2000
manipulated transfer print onto ceramic

Paul and Helen are both involved in research at the University of the West of England, Bristol. They share a particular interest in print and the interface of other disciplines which include: sculpture, ceramics, photography and installation pieces.// Producing work in the book format, as a vehicle for their ideas was an obvious step. // Their first collaboration "Here be Dragons" was made specifically for The Bristol Art Library and is now also included in the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago.// Addressing mental health, "Here be Dragons" does not offer a rational linear narrative. It is the intuitive and poetic response to the artists' experience of visiting the Glenside Mental Health Museum, housed in an old church on the outskirts of the city of Bristol.// Their work for "A Tale of Two Cities" is in a similar vein, where the oneric quality of the imagery speaks to the viewer's subconscious.// The pathos of the not-quite-graspable, of the almost familiar and of things at the margins or in the interstices of order and normality is the area which Paul and Helen explore in their work.

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