Calendrier Oct '06

Calendrier, French for Calendar, has been chosen as the name for Emily Hill's exhibition as the works that have been compiled document a calendar year. Each piece visually alludes to a different element of time keeping recorded in the duration of a calendar year. These illustrate how we mark time in repeated series, such as: days of the week, months or seasons. The titles of her works are clues to the repeated unit of time that is suggested in the work: equinox, seasons, years, months, weeks, days.


The subject matter illustrates how there are mundane and ordinary, abstract and complex ideas and issues that arise over these repeated blocks of time, some of which we notice others we fail to detect. A similar approach is taken with the works, some are clear and require little translation or signposting, others are abstract and only a hint is given for what they may represent.

Throughout this process Emily has used a selection of old calendars as surfaces to begin many of her works. These provide a sense of recycling time or seasons already passed as a way of moving into the future. For the most part she has used mixed media with a strong bias towards oil painting.