Allotment

Allotment is a solo exhibition at the Maison Municipale Frugès-Le Corbusier, Pessac, France from 2nd April to 1st June 2014. In the early 1920s the industrialist Henry Frugès invited Le Corbusier to design a series of dwellings for workers in Pessac near Bordeaux. He asked that the whole district be regarded as a laboratory, in which Le Corbusier would be able to put his theories into practice. The expression, laboratory, could imply that the experiment was finished when the buildings were constructed. However, it is clear the residents considered the estate as an on-going project with which to engage. Since 1926, the site has continually changed and regenerated as local people have personalised homes by imposing their own ideas on individual buildings. This work can be thought of as part of the cycle of regeneration of ideas. The prints present a personal critique and interaction with the Quartiers Modernes Frugès and the modernist aesthetic of Le Corbusier through the medium of printmaking. Prints in the exhibition are of three types. digitally produced and printed as Giclee prints; text posters are limited edition silkscreen prints; three-dimensional intaglio monoprints.