Anyway, to return to the Beatles era (yes, please? just been listening again to Abbey Road) the Void Gallery is with it. Seems there's hardly been a Turner prize in recent times but the shortlist had somebody on it who exhibited or visited Void. And so it is with the 2009 shortlist . .
There was a respectable crowd in the gallery recently for the visit of two leading lights from the British contemporary group Artangel, who - if I remember rightly - seemed to suggest they would welcome the opportunity to work with someone locally in Derry or the North West. A commission they talked about that afternoon, 'Seizure', has put Roger Hiorns on the shortlist of four for the £25,000 first prize. The winner's announced in December.
Another feather in the cap for Maoliosa and everyone at Void then. . . .
In SEIZURE, Hiorns' most ambitious work to date, the artist precipitates an unexpected sculptural form within the fabric of a housing estate near London Bridge.
The scale and production of “Seizure” is ambitious. After reinforcing the walls and ceiling and covering them in plastic sheeting, 80,000 litres of a copper sulphate solution was poured in from a hole in the ceiling. After a few weeks the temperature of the solution fell and the crystals began to grow. The remaining liquid was pumped back out and sent for special chemical recycling.
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