Exhibition

Tilla Crowne: Official Memories

30 Jul 2022 – 28 Aug 2022

Regular hours

Saturday
12:00 – 17:00
Sunday
12:00 – 17:00
Thursday
12:00 – 17:00
Friday
12:00 – 17:00

Free admission

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Thames-Side Studios

London
England, United Kingdom

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  • 161 / 177 / 180 / 472 Bus stops are located; east-bound and west-bound: Woolwich, Warspite Road (6 mins walk)
  • North Greenwich (Take the Route Bus 472 towards Thamesmead Town Centre)
  • Woolwich Dockyard (8 mins walk) and Charlton (12 mins walk)
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​The Official Memories series by Thames-Side Studios-based Tilla Crowne (Studio TB-253) explores commercially produced tourist slides, examining through them the messages and images the place wanted you to take back home with you.

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They serve as the records of the memories you were meant to have of your trip, but were they the ones you actually had? How much do they tell us about how a place sees itself, and the self it wishes to project onto others? Onto these slides are stuck butterflies – partly obscuring the official images, the butterfly wings becoming part of the projection, light streaming through the wings and imposing their pattern upon the image. They represent an inconvenient truth, an element of reality juxtaposed against the flatness of the slide.

Concentrating on drawing and installation, Tilla's work explores themes of identity, memory, sexual violence, and the body. Largely autobiographical, she uses biological materials such as broken eggshells and living matter – plants, insects, fungus – as media, either drawing directly onto them or using them to transform objects and spaces. 

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