1 – 31 March 2007
SEVENTEEN
Collis sits her work meticulously to be over looked, to be dismissed as being something that has happened or as something that is in the process of about to happen.
Susan Collis’s work is dealing with issues about the ephemeral, traces, ghosts, left overs, and preconceptions of what is of high or low value.
The very process of the work is the work, there exists a wonderful poetry within the existing work as process and the making which is high craft.
What appears as paint drips across the gallery floor, miscellaneous paint drips of various different shapes and sizes dripping with ease from the entrance of the gallery into, or does it trail from within the gallery to exit ? Has the paint been spilt from the preparations, of the oncoming show ? Upon close inspection the paint is revealed to be perfectly cut mother of pearl, inlayed within the wooden floor of the gallery.
A very convincing trope-l`oeil and a nice play about meaning and process.
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