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Julia Maddison, Paper Bag, 2016
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Julia Maddison, Shakespeare's plays and Miss Isabel Pole in a green dress (installation view), 2017
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Julia Maddison, Sick Bed, 2016
Event
Shakespeare's plays and Miss Isabel Pole in a green dress
26 Apr 2017
Event times
Wednesday 26 April, 18:00 - 21:00 (or by appointment: 07908618016)
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 17 East End Road
- London
England - N3 3QE
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 82, 125, 143, 326, 460
- Finchley Central (Northern Line)
As the culmination of a 6 month residency in the basement space of Stephens House in Finchley, Julia Maddison has created an installation about suburban secrets and the misery of war, inspired by the history of the building and the local area.
About
"He went to France to save an England which consisted almost entirely of Shakespeare's plays and Miss Isabel Pole in a green dress walking in a square."
Taking its title from the misguided spirit in which Septimus Warren Smith had gone to war in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, this is a show about thwarted hopes, sickness and suburban misery.
Julia Maddison has had a 6 month residency in the atmospheric cellar of Stephens House in Finchley. Drawing on the house's history as a First World War hospital and as an air raid shelter in the 1940s, she has been working on an installation about fragility, and the futility and confusion of war. Using paper, thread, family photographs and scraps, she has been slowly piecing together an underground museum of untold or misremembered stories.
