Four residencies at four divergent sites: Hospitalfield House, a site of Scottish significance for the Arts & Crafts Movement (2003); Prestongrange, an industrial Museum, East Lothian (2002); America’s oldest shopping mall (2001) and finally Dimbola Lodge, a house on the Isle of Wight (2000). How and why do these sites remain resonant?
Nicky Bird is an artist whose work investigates the contemporary relevance of found photographs, and hidden histories of specific sites, investigating how they remain resonant. She has explored this through photography, bookworks, the Internet and New Media. In varying ways she incorporates new photography with oral histories, genealogy, and collaborations with people who have a significant connection to the original site, archive or artefact. Read More …
