Sioban Piercy | Waiting Object (Four), 2021
Artist's Book- Archival inkjet on waxed Japanese Kozo paper
Media Dimensions: 58 x 50 x 10 cm
Image Dimensions:
Edition of 7 (with unique variations)
Installation
Piercy’s work considers the object we call ‘a book’. She draws attention to the book as a strange fabrication in which the very simple elements of marked paper, card and thread are transformed into something so much other than the sum of their parts. She uses the materials and conventions of book binding in unusual and inventive ways to enable us to realise the book as a liminal space where relatively modest bits and pieces are transmuted into complex architectures of the mind and where our thoughts, explanations and stories have been constructed, shaped, and held. She aims to help us to see anew this astonishing object and reflect on it as a contraption of our meaning making. She studied at the Royal College of Art, London and has received numerous awards including the International Print Triennial in Cracow, Poland; the Printmakers Council of Britain, London; British School at Rome scholarship. Her work is in the collections of the Arts Council of Ireland, the Ashmolean, Oxford; the V&A, London; the Instituto Nationale Per la Grafica, Rome; among others. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Printmakers (RE) and winner of the society’s residency at the Scuola di Grafica in Venice in 2019. She is a regular exhibitor in the Summer Show at the Royal Academy. London.
Artist's Book- Archival inkjet on waxed Japanese Kozo paper
Media Dimensions: 58 x 50 x 10 cm
Image Dimensions:
Edition of 7 (with unique variations)
Installation
Piercy’s work considers the object we call ‘a book’. She draws attention to the book as a strange fabrication in which the very simple elements of marked paper, card and thread are transformed into something so much other than the sum of their parts. She uses the materials and conventions of book binding in unusual and inventive ways to enable us to realise the book as a liminal space where relatively modest bits and pieces are transmuted into complex architectures of the mind and where our thoughts, explanations and stories have been constructed, shaped, and held. She aims to help us to see anew this astonishing object and reflect on it as a contraption of our meaning making. She studied at the Royal College of Art, London and has received numerous awards including the International Print Triennial in Cracow, Poland; the Printmakers Council of Britain, London; British School at Rome scholarship. Her work is in the collections of the Arts Council of Ireland, the Ashmolean, Oxford; the V&A, London; the Instituto Nationale Per la Grafica, Rome; among others. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Printmakers (RE) and winner of the society’s residency at the Scuola di Grafica in Venice in 2019. She is a regular exhibitor in the Summer Show at the Royal Academy. London.
Artist's Book- Archival inkjet on waxed Japanese Kozo paper
Media Dimensions: 58 x 50 x 10 cm
Image Dimensions:
Edition of 7 (with unique variations)
Installation
Piercy’s work considers the object we call ‘a book’. She draws attention to the book as a strange fabrication in which the very simple elements of marked paper, card and thread are transformed into something so much other than the sum of their parts. She uses the materials and conventions of book binding in unusual and inventive ways to enable us to realise the book as a liminal space where relatively modest bits and pieces are transmuted into complex architectures of the mind and where our thoughts, explanations and stories have been constructed, shaped, and held. She aims to help us to see anew this astonishing object and reflect on it as a contraption of our meaning making. She studied at the Royal College of Art, London and has received numerous awards including the International Print Triennial in Cracow, Poland; the Printmakers Council of Britain, London; British School at Rome scholarship. Her work is in the collections of the Arts Council of Ireland, the Ashmolean, Oxford; the V&A, London; the Instituto Nationale Per la Grafica, Rome; among others. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Printmakers (RE) and winner of the society’s residency at the Scuola di Grafica in Venice in 2019. She is a regular exhibitor in the Summer Show at the Royal Academy. London.
