Imagined Land

Amy Thomas and Oliver Irvine have created a theatrical playground, playing on a juxtaposition of an imagined and real world: the natural and the pre fabricated.

The installation, like the imagination, has no boundaries. Viewer becomes artist, artist becomes viewer. The environment seeps out of  it’s boundaries and requires the embodiment of both the subconscious mind and the surrounding space.  Visitors are given a ticket, which is exchanged for a lump of clay at a hole in the gallery wall.  Viewers are asked to create objects from the clay that they feel will contribute to the unfolding environment.
 The visitors ideas are incorporated by the artists, who mould their precious clay objects into the installation. Over time the sculpted and installed objects become conjoined and calcified in paint and in clay, which is continuously applied by the artists in this imaginative land.  The work becomes a collaboration between artist and viewer and acts as a state of raw communication.

The ‘imagined land’ detaches itself from reality, and into the subconscious; it highlights a deeper understanding of our imaginative process. The collaborative act and contributions build up to create a large installation, and are designed to provoke the idea of personal creation in order for change and preservation of the current  environment.

 Visitors are not working in competition, but performing the same simple physical act that builds up a mass accumulation of personalized matter.

  The Installation becomes an evolutionary process as a new relationship has formed between artist, participant, space, material and time to create a cycle of change in an ‘imagined land’ of order and chaos.