Traces, 2020-2022 / In collaboration with the cleaners Julie Haygarth, Janette Nelson, Phillipa Whitehead, Linda Buttle, Rinku Shaw, Agnieszka Stankiewicz, Elzbieta Orczykowska, Martin Bennett, Angela Joss, Amanda Dixon, Angela Chesters, Josie Platt, Jake Haygarth, Yvonne Rawcliffe, Christine Southern and Mariola Orawiec, working at Lancaster University.
Specifications
Acrylic on canvas
Various dimentions
DescriptionTraces is a year-long research-based project sculpted by conversations with cleaners at Lancaster University. These conversations started in late 2021 at various locations across the campus from the library to students’ accommodation.
This performative painting was made in the University Library, primarily by the library cleaners on a typical working day. More than 80 cleaners from across Lancaster University joined, many of whom hadn’t seen each other for the last two years of the pandemic. The collective painting is now the legacy of all these conversations, and is installed in the University’s Library as a monument to the cleaners.
Traces was supported and commisioned by Lancaster Arts
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