Snapshot 02: Temporary Gatherings by Niamh Chisholm

Snapshot 02: Temporary Gatherings by Niamh Chisholm
Reception Corridor, John Lennon Art and Design Building, Liverpool School of Art and Design.
December 15, 2023 – January 26, 2024
Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm
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Snapshot presents Snapshot 02: Temporary Gatherings by Niamh Chisholm.
The project explores temporary gatherings of people in spaces within the university, that are specific to the BA Fine Art course. These gatherings include artist talks and lectures. Chisholm records where everyone is sitting on A6 pieces of paper in pencil, with a single dot representing each person. From this she embroiders the mapped-out drawings onto cotton squares, each approx. 11×11 inches. These pieces explore transient spaces, relationships to space and memory, and capture a brief moment in time, immortalising it.
Niamh Chisholm is a Level 5 Fine Art student. Her practice usually encompasses oil painting and textile-based work, specifically embroidery. She is continuously interested in ideas around permanence, space, memory, and documentation. Chisholm explores these concepts through creating series and archives of work that are often detailed and clear-cut in their visual appearance.
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Snapshot is a permanent display programme of sequentially changing creative outputs. It provides an impression of each participant’s practice located in a liminal space in the School, where visitors only spend fleeting moments travelling to other spaces or waiting to enter classes.
The project is the result of an ongoing open call to all visiting researchers and practitioners, staff and students of all levels on all programmes at Liverpool School of Art and Design. It presents incomplete, transitory views of research-and-practice-in-progress; a window into a brief moment in time of a given academic year. Utilising redundant gallery furniture stored in the public space of the reception corridor, the displays are selected on aesthetic criteria of how to best animate the space they occupy, projecting forwards in time the potential each work holds.
As the year progresses a living archive will develop on the concrete pillar next to each pair of vitrines, providing information about past and current displays.
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Developed by Dr James Schofield, Dr Hana Leaper and Dr Christine Eyene (Exhibition Research Lab), and managed by students from the MA Exhibition Studies programme.
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