Flowers and Cells

Work created with French knitting made by patients and staff during joie de faire (the making of stuff) project 2006-07 developed for the Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award. The Award consisted of an artist residency at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, Feto-maternal department. The outcome was three commissions for Radcliffe Hospital’s collection and Paintings in Hospitals loan collection and a solo exhibition at Menier Chocolate Factory gallery in London. See artworks: Spiral and Arabesques Flowers 0m90 H X 0m90 W x 5cm D (Paintings in Hospitals) Cells: 0m90 H X 1m35 W x 7cm4 D (John Radcliffe Hospital) Materials: French knitting made by artist, patients and staff. Wool, wire, sequins, wire and pins on boards. The award was managed by Paintings in Hospital senior curator Helen Bonar For three months Françoise Dupré visited the Feto-Maternal Medicine Department and through the use of spool knitting engaged with patients and staff. Miles of spool knitting tubes were assembled by the artist to create three artworks: Flowers, Spiral and Cells. Flowers is part of Paintings in Hospitals Loan Collection. Spiral and Cells are permanently on show in the Feto-Maternal Department. The residency was the subject of a symposium: joie de faire, held at Birmingham City University, School of Art in 2007. A publication containing the transcript of the symposium and information about the residency was published by Article Press and can be obtained through the distributor Central Books. (ISBN: 978-1-873352-69-4, ISBN: 1-873552-69-7)