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| Tracy Boness - #unsettledgallery No.2 (Pipe Crack Site) |
Does love endure forever? Does a bad
penny always turn up? During this Valentine month the artists and
writers from CollectConnect explore this flip-sided theme with an
exhibition of 32 miniature sculptures. These objects are placed in
public places (#unsettledgallery), helping us to remember those who
we hold dear - or cast off those who we would rather forget. Every
day throughout February we will be featuring one of these
tokens/pennies on this website. A writer will also use the art as
inspiration to create something new and fresh.
Art - Tracy Boness / Words - Ginny
Reddick
The queen was especially frightening
today. “I was promised. Promised. Where is it? Where? Is? It?”
Her inflection was nonsensical, her eyes missed some essential human
thing and the rage burned erratically. Anything could happen now - to
the princess or to one of the others. She clutched the locket
tightly. It burned her palm. A talisman against the queen but a
vulnerability as well. It was filled with herself. She had loved and
was loved. Her mother was long gone but she remained, in her and in
the locket.
This latest storm subsided and that
night she went to the river alone. (Better on her own terms.) She
threw it far and her mind’s eye watched it sink to unknowable
depths where it could never be taken from her.
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| Tracy Boness |
Tracy's Love Token resides on a tiny
mossy ledge in the aptly named Pipe Crack Site in Bermondsey, part of
the #usettledgallery No.2 near London Bridge. The #unsettledgallery, as
its name suggests, is an evolving space that we have been populating
with art. The London Bridge area is a thoroughfare for thousands of
commuters each day. The Tate Modern, White Cube and Jerwood Space are
close by, Guy's Hospital sits within its boundary, alongside Europe's
tallest building, The Shard. The area has been targeted by
'terrorists' in the past and people queue in a long line every
day outside the Immigration Centre on St Thomas St. It has given us
plenty of inspiration already but we hope it will now become a
breeding ground for both our own art and other artists too.
Tracy Boness (b. Canningtown, East
London) studied for a BTEC National Diploma in Art & Design at
East Ham Community College then a BA Hons Degree Fine Art at West
Surrey Institute of Art & Design. She consistently exhibits her
work, undertaking commissions and taking part in community based
workshops. Painting and drawing are essential to her work practice.
Recent black and white drawings take inspiration from 18th Century
engravings and botanical drawings of the era. Boness also likes to
experiment with new materials, sometimes sewing and layering surfaces
to create tactile pieces of work.
Instagram
- https://www.instagram.com/craftylittlehouse100/
Ginny Reddick is a writer and educator.
She was one of the artists who exhibited at the first ever
CollectConnect exhibition, Open Fridge, in March 2010. Although there
has been a 9 year hiatus between that exhibition and this one she has
curated numerous CC projects including the Walthamstow street art
favourite HideBird.
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