WSA
Jane’s final degree show at Winchester School of art consisted of installation, video, photography and scale model in cake. The subject of these disparate forms of art were the Utopian aspirations of post war politicians and designers as seen in the listed building Park Hill in Sheffield. In assessing the ‘poetic’ images of this development she took
1. The building gutted for refurbishment through which the streetscape of Sheffield can be seen: the layering of the new on the old.
2. The actual unique form of the building constructed in cake where the cake is a metaphor for urban renewal and a symbol of celebration of the original aspirations, although in cutting and eating it, it could be seen as the demolition of those original altruistic ideals no longer held by our neo-liberal society.
3. The cobbles in the landscaping which were from the original Victorian streets of the area.
4. The video is in a form which brings together 1 to 3 showing the construction of the cake alongside the refurbishment of Park Hill. The cobbles and the structure both feature in it.
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Early preparation work for this was a study of the work of Le Corbusier at Unité d'Habitation at Marseille.
