'where to' is the continuing story of one caravan. It contains the inhabitation of a fictional character whose story is never complete. Each time the caravan is shown another layer is added. The project looks towards the stories of missing people, the desire to escape one life to assume another and the role of real or feigned amnesia.

'where to' was exhibited in Cork at the Southern Fruit Warehouse for Art Trail 2008.

Rachel Andrews, writer in residence for Art Trail 2008, wrote:

'...A little to the side of the warehouse entrance, a grey space, a sad sanctuary. Much of the story of the artwork, 'where to', 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 complete text

Art Trail

click images below to view previous manifestations of the caravan