Art Friday: Kirsty Hall
Posted in Individualism on 10. Jul, 2009
I first discovered Kirsty Hall in 2007 as she blogged about her daily artwork for The Diary Project. Drawing on a sealed envelope then posting it to herself each day, she charted an entire year.
Both artist and curator, Kirsty tries to capture and embody memory in her pieces. Often working in series, she creates haunting, evocative works of sculpture, textiles, photography and drawing. Her use of everyday, almost insignificant objects as her working medium only adds to their beauty.
She often works with vast quantities of pins or pieces of thread. What I particularly admire about her is that she always works alone and all the intricate, repetitive effort is entirely hers.
Kirsty is a prolific artist with a lot of work to choose from. I have selected the following works as I feel they embody the crux of her ideas.
You can find Kirsty at her website kirstyhall.co.uk, Flickr and follow her on Twitter.
March Object 06 © Kirsty Hall
Quiver Close-Up © Kirsty Hall
Burning 01 © Kirsty Hall
28th November © Kirsty Hall
This week’s Art Friday was written by August.
I was away for the weekend so I only just saw this but thanks so much for the link, I really appreciate it.