JANE AND LOUISE WILSON BACKGROUND JANE AND LOUISE
JANE AND LOUISE WILSON
BACKGROUND: JANE AND LOUISE WILSON ARE A SIBLING DUO WHO HAVE A SHARED DIALOGUE. THE TWINS ARE FROM NORTHERN ENGLAND.
EDUCATION: LOUISE STUDIED FOR A BA AT DUNCAN OF JORDONSTONE COLLEGE OF ART, DUNDEE. JANE STUDIED AT NEWCASTLE POLYTECHNIC. BOTH IN 1989. FOR THEIR DEGREE LOUISE AND JANE SUBMITTED IDENTICAL WORK WHICH COMPRISED OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE TWO WHO APPEARED TO BE MURDERING EACH OTHER, ONE BY DROWNING AND THE OTHER WITH A NOOSE. BOTH SIBLINGS RECEIVED MASTERS FROM GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE LONDON.
THEY WERE NOMINATED FOR THE TURNER PRIZE IN 1999 FOR THEIR EXHIBITION 'GAMMA' AT THE LISSON GALLERY IN LONDON. JANE AND LOUISE HAVE ALSO EXHIBITED ACROSS: EUROPE, AMERICA, JAPAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST.
MY INITIAL THOUGHTS ON THEIR WORK: WHEN FIRST RESEARCHING THEIR WORK THE PIECES I CAME ACROSS INVOLVED DARK AND DERELICT LOOKING SITES. THESE EXHIBITED ABANDONED LOOKING OR TRASHED BUILDINGS. THE SETS REMINDED ME OF SCENES FROM HORROR FILMS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS DUE TO THE CHOSEN LOCATIONS BEING BROKEN DOWN, UNLIT AND EERY LOOKING.
PRACTICE: WHEN THE PAIR LEFT ART SCHOOL THEIR INITIAL PIECES INVOLVED FILMING IN SMALL LIVING SPACES. THEIR INITIAL FOCUS SURROUNDED THEME OF ISSUES RELATING TO IDENTITY. THEIR WORK INVOLVES A COMBINATION OF FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE, CREATING THEATRICAL AND ATMOSPHERIC INSTALLATIONS. ANOTHER THEME WHICH WAS CONSIDERED DURING THEIR WORK INVOLVED THE 'POWER OF THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND', IN RELATION TO THIS ANXIETIES, PHOBIAS AND UNWANTED MEMORIES ARE ALSO A FOCUS IN AN ATTEMPT TO REVEAL REPRESSION.
Critic: “Their work is uncomfortable because its about memory and places, about loss and abandoned spaces” - ISABEL CARLOS (CURATOR)
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