A DAY’S WORK, 2019
Exhibition catalogue for A Day’s Work, SKK Soest, 2019.
Curated by Susan Morris. With an introduction by Morris and essays by Margaret Iversen and Michael Newman.
FROM THE INTRO: On the evening of Saturday 27th October 2018, I went to bed around my usual time but woke the following morning an hour earlier – at least according to the clock, which had shifted back from British Summer Time to Greenwich Mean Time. I could stay an extra hour in bed, which might be wise, given that for the next few weeks my fellow citizens and I were about to enter the dangerous period after the clocks change when we are more likely to feel depressed, have a traffic accident or make mistakes at work. The clocks always go back (or, six months later, “spring forward”) in the wee, small hours of a Saturday night/Sunday morning – the logic being, I suppose, to give us a day to recover from this manipulation of time before work begins again on Monday morning. Yet for an artist, who works in her own time, surely the hour of the day and the day of the week are irrelevant? I work when I want to, or when I can. Nevertheless, the rhythms of my working life are in lockstep with those orchestrated by the society I inhabit. If I need materials or technical expertise, for instance, I must respect the fact that the art supply shop or printer’s opening hours correspond to those defined by law as a ‘working day’ – generally nine to five, Monday to Friday. I have to get up.
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