The Peoples Museum of 1962 - Doyle photographs Taken 9/10/08

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Untitled Craft Project 2010 (Tracy Island Series), 2010




The irreverent association of the television personality Anthea Turner in the naming of the prize is the initial focus of this work. I have produced an object which manifests this relationship as its context. I have decided to recreate a seminal Blue Peter 'make' in which Turner constructs a model of Tracy Island from the popular children's TV series Thunderbirds.

This project has been conceived by myself and two other artists as a means of commenting on aesthetic judgement. The fact that the work finds itself in a prize competition with no overarching theme - and where all three pieces are formed with identical intent – the judgement will, in all-likelihood, fall to aesthetic judgement alone. It is my intention to bring this approach to artistic reading to the fore.

The way in which the work has been made is in direct response to the democratic nature of this prize. In reference to this democracy, as an artist I have decided to follow instructions that anyone can follow (through You Tube video content), I therefore aim to remove any skill-set or technical ability from the intended commentary at hand.

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