'A little to the side of the warehouse entrance, a grey space, a sad sanctuary. Much of the story of the artwork, From Where to Here, is on the inside - the neglected toothbrush, the lonely plants, the ache at the heart of the soulful singer on the radio. The missing, nomadic resident. Teresa Gillespie, installation creator, has something to say about the protective walls needed by all, the human urge to forge even a melancholic domesticity out of a chaotic, rambling existence. This is space turned into place, shabby and small, but a somewhere. From the inside confines, the outside becomes an undefined blend of sound and colour: the slim line of a branch, dressed in red and purple, arriving at the window, a blackbird's head cocked, a flash of yellow and black. The fragile entity rattles and shakes – is it the passing trucks, or could it be something more sinister? Like Kubota's van, this artwork is changing its surrounding space, but here it is the inside place, self-contained, disassociated, that disturbs the outside, turning it blurred, hidden, insecure.'
- Rachel Andrews |