Ash Steps (Title Withheld)

Ash Steps was made in response to the context and architectural features of the Bank Gallery and created onsite for the exhibition, Preparing the Site, curated by Emma Rae Warburton and Anna Viani. The exhibition explores how material processes and methods of display are used to alter the physical and metaphorical function of things and the sites that they occupy. Inspired by this climate of change imposed on the gallery, Preparing the Site aims to explore ideas of total physical and conceptual transformation by enveloping the space in art and materiality. Ash Steps is one of three works. Paper Pillar and Cube are also in the exhibition. Ash Steps is a work within a work, comprised of paper from the 2007 project, SPIKE IT. Jeannie’s practice often involves processes that re- form material or its presentation and form for new artworks. This new exploration of ash involves; collecting, burning, stoking, cooling, panning and sifting on an almost industrial scale.