Lisa Wigham/The Two a.m. Press: No More Last Minutes
As part of the next phase of Blackpool Culture Shops Lisa Wigham has created an installation for the window of 89-93 Church Street (the old Bar Red), St John’s Square, Blackpool. The work will be onview from Saturday 10th September 2011
This installation offers an impressionistic view of journeys, transience and comings and goings in the artist’s home town of Blackpool.
The artist uses vinyl lettering to present fragments of text that trigger thoughts in the passer-by, both in daylight hours and through the night.
Lisa uses traditional printing methods or commercial graphics processes to make images and text that adapt to their location. In each case she maintains an interest in finding tactile and poetic ways to use materials.
This installation muses upon its proximity to the Winter Gardens during the current change of season, when the Illuminations are lit, a chill meets the air and people gather in the halls and ballrooms, while nostalgia for summer creeps in.
The artist draws on conversations and observations from her years of being out and about in various social scenes. In this part of town people gather or pass through by day and after dark. Shoppers, workers, clubbers, weekenders, sub cultural convention visitors, strollers or speed walkers: en route to a cash machine, running through the fountains, leaving work, walking home.
The text in this display is extracted from books written, printed and published by the artist under the name the Two a.m. Press. This work is distributed and exhibited internationally in bookshops, galleries and museums.
Lisa Wigham’s No More Last Minutes is part of the Culture Shops programme. The opening reception for Culture Shops Phase 4 will be held on Saturday 10th September, 6pm at FYCreatives, Church Street, Blackpool.
The launch event will coincide with the opening of the next Supercollider exhibition Ill Be Your Mirror in the gallery space at FYCreatives.
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