Test Space exhibition: Anne Deeming

About

The objects Deeming designs and makes look familiar and usable in some way, and yet they are not. They exist as amalgamations of everyday utilitarian objects with features that can trigger multiple associations with something you have used or seen before.

The Gaps Between is the culmination of a research and development process undertaken in 2015–2016, supported by a grant from Arts Council England. It brings together the work created and acts as an invitation to the viewer to actively engage with the haptic nature of the work through touch. More broadly Deeming’s practice investigates the slippage between the familiar and foreign, domestic and industrial, the useful and useless. She examines the gaps between sculpture, contemporary design and applied arts.

Test Space is programmed by studio holders based at Spike Island and offers artists a chance to exhibit new works and test ideas. Artists from within the Spike Island community and beyond are included.