They both took part in Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool, 2009. They will participate in a forthcoming exhibition organised by the group Bru’d at Edinburgh College of Art, 2010.
Abigail Barr and Emily Dowler’s collaborative work has been informed by the concerns of their individual practices. Abigail Barr has developed work, which exposes and highlights the act of arrangement and placement of sculptural objects. Her method of work is closely connected to the process of drawing, which is characterised by flux and revision. Emily Dowler is interested in the interplay between colour and everyday objects; she explores and exploits the innate colouration of ready-mades in the production of work, which encompasses sculpture, drawing and installation.
In the collaborative sound work Word Association Barr and Dowler have formed a written script derived from a dialogue of questions and answers, which is performed aurally. The work based upon the spontaneous expression of thoughts and words, is responsive and reactive while simultaneously measured and ordered. A metronome is used to provide an aural signal to give the spoken words a similar value and tempo.
