Helen Scalway
Textile Shop, Green Street, Newham E7
2009, digital print on aluminium
Helen Scalway is an artist primarily concerned with research into the visual representation of the experience of the contemporary cosmopolitan city. Her focus is on urban pattern and ornament which codes places and things, fills them with meaning and suffuses them with memory.
She writes: ‘I was looking for communicable structures through which to convey the shifting plenitude of the material and decided to explore the notions of “shop” and “museum”, echoing my research sites, the contemporary textile shops in Green Street, Newham, and the South Asian textile collection at the V&A. This chart was made as a result of my many visits to South Asian textile shops and conversations with proprietors, employees and customers. It’s an attempt to reveal more about the dynamics of the South Asian shop: not just the business dynamics but the imaginative (social, psychological) ones as well.’
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