Prison, palace

My mixed-media artwork from my residency at Margate Museum explored the materiality of language in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land in a site-responsive intervention. Juxtaposing the biographical, the fictive and the Museum itself - once a town hall, a police station, and magistrate’s court - the work was a form of scenario which re-considered tensions between memory and absence. While the focus of The Journeys with the Wasteland project was T.S. Eliot himself, my own project reversed the hierarchy to consider Vivienne Eliot and by extension issues around exclusion and counter histories