Open Space

Open Space is a series of meetings and research visits over eighteen months initially between artist Caroline Wright and national curator Ben Borthwick and latterly with curator Naomi Siderfin.The meetings will be recorded through this reflective blog and will document the making of a new body of work by Caroline Wright. A regional event will conclude the project in 2011

Sunday, 6 February 2011


Today was the day for a visit to the studio by Caterina Riva, curator at Form Content.

We met at Cambridge station and travelled to Wysing by car. The morning was spent looking at my work and generally exploring common ground, areas where I might develop my ideas and where Caterina might have an interest and be able to support me.

It was not an easy path to describe what is an all over the place oeuvre. In the end I decided to plump for the 'most recent work first' pattern and work backwards – why is it that one's most recent work seems the most engaging? That is, of course, until time and tide decide otherwise. I was able to make some useful decisions from our conversations - further development of the drawings in the Unburied Dead series, a strategy to approach the possible Latitude commission and the need to archive and organize the documentation of my work, the latter being much overdue.