Faded Paper : Sara Mackillop

9 Jul-4 Sep 2011

Overview

Sara Mackillop’s quiet, understated work takes everyday objects, such as jigsaw puzzles, record sleeves and felt tip pen caps, and configures them in ways that realign our perception of the world. For this Spike Island installation she uses paper reclaimed from a disused notice board at her part time university administration job to stage a work that slowly evolves throughout the period of the exhibition. Partially covered in posters and flyers, the pieces of sugar paper were bleached by sunlight into ghostly patterns revealing traces of their previous role as a backdrop. Mackillop has documented these X-ray-like images as they were when she came across them, and now hangs them in the bright Project Space where the colours will fade away in the sunlight.