CURATED BY Sophie Buxton, Rob Smith, Lesley Guy and Alan Boxshall

http://www.arthouses.net/

PRESS RELEASE (excerpts):

ArtHouses is an annual event in which the homes, gardens and public spaces of Whitley Bay become the venue for contemporary visual art. Through hosting artworks in people’s homes, ArtHouses develops unique situations to exhibit and experience artworks.

Alexandra Hughes -

Flinking: "an object neither floating nor sinking in water” (Wilson 1993) is an installation made for Arthouses.

Flinking situated in a living room includes photographs in qualities of transparency, opaqueness and iridescence, wrapped over the architecture and furniture. Through cut-out shapes resident objects become suspended in a spatial collage of fragmented matter, video and imagery, such as, dogs in fields, hair, hands, balloons, glaciers, oceans and oil spills; captured by both artist and householder. Orb-like, net-like and horizontal structures invite close examination from the public and in places, the physical insertion of limbs and heads.

Flinking presents an ambiguous, lively and sensorial space with forms full of nuances and oddities, engendering both dream-like reveries and slippery notions of contemporary environments.