Confabulations

Vivien Atkinson

September 25 - 12 October 2024

Do objects have memory? 

There was a time when the gleaming, silver-plated teapot, sugar bowl and milk jug stood on their silver-plated tray in the china cabinet among the ornaments and the delicate porcelain cups and saucers.  Orphaned on charity shop shelves.

Pots and pans in daily use, grabbed from cupboard or drawer, filled, stirred, baked - a kitchen filled with chatter and comfort.  Once smart, light-weight aluminium tainted with the rumour of Alzheimers and tin with its propensity to rust, now unwanted inheritance.

Is there a way to wake and celebrate the layered/fragmented traces of use held by these objects?