BOB aka CAROLINE HICKSON

PETER: How did you come about doing this work
CAROLINE: This piece is done in collaboration with David Thomas’ work and it was about landscape and my response to his work, I did’nt know what I was going to do until the last three weeks, it’s a bit obsessive. I wanted something to be 3D, David’s a painter who works in layers .
PETER: What’s it called?
CAROLINE: Edges. The title came out of a conversation I did with David about landscapes about horizons being the extent of our sight, what we can see. When you look at an horizon, that is the limit of your visual sense so I wanted to incorporate that into the piece. So it’s landscape format and it also works the other way as well.
The prints on the paper are taken from the edges of my fingertips so it’s the extent of me and they are all monoprinted and they were produced using my fingertips. So it’s edges in many ways.
PETER: Have you ever seen a piece of work by Anselm Kiefer, The High Priestess.
A series of lead books, inside are these beautiful distressed landscape photographs work, they are books but the contents are hindered by the weight of the form. Your work reminds me of the book format and your concerns with landscape.
CAROLINE: Yes it’s definitely got references to books, it’s what I really like, books. I did see an exhibition where one of the pieces was a book made up of the edges of books.
PETER: Could you explain the concept behind this exhibition, is it like Blind Date for Art?
CAROLINE: Yes this is IN TWO MINDS exhibition, where different Artist’s were picked out of a hat and paired off with another Artist from another studio. I was paired off with David Thomas from Aire Valley Art Group and I’m part of South Square. I think that people responded to the challenge, working with someone at random, that was the whole idea, it was a way of introducing Bradford Artist’s to introduce each other in a more dynamic way.