24 Oct–24 Dec 2007
Although she uses video, photography and performance in her practice alongside painting Alma Tischler-Wood regards all her work as painting. Alma will use her Space for 10 Residency as an opportunity to retrace her Chinese roots and the domain of colour field painting.
Alma has been considering the importance of weaving, and about how this may have inspired grids and maps. As Manchester will be her home and workplace she will trade upon its links to an industrial past as a starting point for her inquiry. As a great trading centre Manchester has been a melting pot for many cultures, races, and ideas.
Painting is a tremendous vehicle for ‘thinking’, because it is both an emotional and a philosophical pursuit. At the retinal level the viewer is simultaneously able to perceive both the weave of the canvas and the image of a pattern. Manchester also enjoys a special historical status for the development of textiles and she will be exploring some of its secrets to see whether they will inform her work as a painter.
For the Space for 10 Residency Alma will create work that invites the viewer to peer below, underneath, aside and inside the works. These are paintings that attract this rewarding curiosity, like the playful impulse to look inside a box or around a corner.
Ultimately, Alma is hoping to create a new space for painting.
