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Five2Watch: Work


Axisweb has selected five artworks featuring contemporary artists whose work conatins aspects of work and labour: Tessa Bunney, Lucy Stevens, Trevor Burgess, Emily Hesse and Ellen Bell


From the series FarmerFlorist, 2016

Tessa Bunney

My ongoing project FarmerFlorist explores the vibrant local 'artisan' cut-flower farms which have recently sprung up in the UK and is a celebration of domestic growers past and present.

Tessa Bunney

The Workforce Symphony, 2017

Lucy Stevens

The new soundscape The Workforce Symphony has been produced using a mixture of field recordings, interviews and oral history archives to produce a narrative that explores the rhythmic sounds created by industrial machinery, the patterns of voices recounting stories and the natural environment. The composition is layered with sound recordings gathered from factories, workshops, vintage industrial machinery, parks, wildlife and interviews with retired industrialists and manipulated to mimic the sounds of industry or stretched, repeated and reversed to produce new and unexpected audio samples. 

Lucy Stevens

Fish Crate 4 (Billingsgate, London), 2016

Trevor Burgess

Oil on board
From The Market Paintings

 

Trevor Burgess

Fruits of Our Labour, 2015

Emily Hesse

Labours past and present. Mixed media sculpture.

Emily Hesse

Work, 2017

Ellen Bell

An ongoing performance project where I perform acts of sewing in public places

Ellen Bell


Published 22 September 2017

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