The Making of Strong Room:
Talk by Roelof Bakker and Jane Wildgoose

Wednesday 7th May, 2014
7pm - 8.30pm

The Original Gallery
Hornsey Library (First Floor)
Haringey Park
London N8 9JA (MAP)
Nearest tube: Finsbury Park then take the W7 bus
Overground: Crouch Hill

Free Admission
No booking required

In the digital world there is no need for paper, for pens and pencils, for handwritten notes, for printed documents, for files. There are no solid and secure strong rooms. There’s no wear and tear. There is no material, no physical presence, no volume, no weight.

Strong Room is a collaboration between London-based artists Roelof Bakker and Jane Wildgoose. Photographs of traces of past human activity are used as inspiration for writing about the loss of the tangible experience and the lack of physical presence in the digital world. The historical and academic importance of paper-based archives are explored as well as their potential to prompt the imagination and evoke memories.

Photographs from the Strong Room series won First Prize (Gold) at the London Photographic Association Still Life 5 competition.

This talk is one of the events taking place as part of the Crouch End Open Studios and is free to all who attend. It will be held in the gallery showing a group show of 30 artists work including the work of LIP members Eva Turrell and Lizzie Brown.