POST-UNI CONVERSATIONS: a conversation between Lis Mann and Joan Skelton Smith
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Joan Skelton Smith
A Walk in the Woods
Frames from video
Joan Skelton Smith writes: On 10th March 2010, Lis Mann and Joan Skelton Smith met at Joan’s home. Lis brought her Tabernacle MA project for discussion. Joan gave Lis a tour of her studio and received Lis’s input on her video project, A Walk in the Woods. Joan is hoping to stay in touch via email and a blog while she is cruising down the French canals this summer.
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Lis Mann
Welcome, A Place to Be
Family images printed onto silk with an inkjet printer, woven to make a cover, the table cloth
has the silk images stitched together.
The tabernacle was made of aluminium poles, which were
collapsed and errected at different venues in Oxford.
The wooden stool was also in kit form.
The overall size was roughly 6ft x 6ft.
Lis Mann writes: The whole structure of Welcome, A Place to Be was transported in stencilled canvas bags which I pulled through the streets of Oxford on a porter's trolley for three days. The piece I am stitching is a family history on silk in black thread. The idea was to engage with members of the public and share memories with them. The first image is by the Austrian Black Pine in the Botanical Gardens in Oxford and the second is the tabernacle being exhibited at OVADA, Oxford.
I hope to invite Joan back to my studio to continue to share ideas around trees and landscape, which we both use as our inspiration. Much of our conversation was around the problems of continuing to do meaningful work when having to rely purely on self motivation, as we both have come to the end of courses; this is a question we would like to find answers to.
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