Dartington College of Arts, Devon

For several years I had been burying works under perspex in various gardens, including at Café Gallery, and observing the varying nature of decay. I would, for instance, put a real daffodil, a plastic daffodil, a silk daffodil and a photograph of a daffodil each beside the other under perspex. All their vibrant, fresh colour matched for the first day and then swiftly diverged. Another piece was 2 rabbits, a brown one and a white one holding each other, slowly becoming indistinguishable from each other and from their form as they decayed

“One of her more private works shows her use of performance as a site of commemoration. In 1987 she was invited by Rose Garrard to create a live work at Dartington College of Arts in Devon. She marked the boundary of landscaped and farmed land at the extremity of the Dartington estate, ritually burying personal objects given to her by students and people working on site, intending at a later date to extend the performance through digging them up. Going back at the same date four years later and by now a mother, she found this inappropriate and instead marked the occasion in a series of staged photographs which mediates on boundaries—between life and death, real presence and representation. The work documents her baby son flanked by two dead rabbits, the baby laughs, happily performing this still life/still from life/evocation of death in life. The objects remain buried on the symbolic line between one world and another.”

Extract from Women’s Art Magazine