I Want to Offer Myself Up
card, glitter, the artist's hair, vinyl, 250 x 310 cm
2015
"'The work of Rebecca Lindsay-Addy deals quite subjectively with the artist’s identity but also draws in wider issues of cultural identity. She has, in a way, ‘collaborated’ by researching family photographs and finding there a familiar pattern on a favourite bedcover. She also involved family members in making the pieces for the installation, together, on the time-honoured kitchen table. The bedcover pattern forms the basis for her deployment of an arrangement of modular discs across the wall of her given space (again she utilises and emphasises the corner and displays the modules from wall to wall.) The modules are colourful and glittery, they look machine-made from a distance but on closer inspection are hand cut. On many of them you find traces of the artist’s hair attached. Fortunately she was on-hand to talk about the way that people are fascinated by her big, frizzy (perhaps part-Afro?) hair and tend to “touch it without asking.” In the midst of the modular pattern you find a few words written, apparently communicating a certain passion on the part of the artist, or of the artwork itself “I WANT TO OFFER MYSELF UP” They transform the rest of the work into a kind of sacrifice or votive device and so the hair and the glittering circles become, not only about proximity, perspective, privacy and personal and wider culture but also a kind of belief system in which art-making resembles a prayer." - Paul O' Kane - https://750wordsaweek.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/csm-graduation-shows/