Dispossession

This artwork featured in Give Me Shelter (2009). 

Susan Grant’s work, Dispossession, echoes the memory of the succession of lost communities such as those razed to make way for Humphry Repton’s grand design of Attingham’s parkland, which included the diversion of roads and the River Tern. The work addresses the shift from an agricultural and industrial to leisure-driven land-use. The shape of the work was inspired by a hand-painted map in Repton’s Red Book for Attingham showing the original river course. Using tiny house-shaped forms that reference the game of Monopoly, this work reflects Susan’s interest in the symbols of Pop Art and propaganda. The use of red references the political associations of power and revolution and the polarised views that such developments can encourage.

Image: Susan Grant, Dispossession, plastic, steel rods. Installation view, Give Me Shelter, Attingham Park, 2009. Image courtesy Meadow Arts. 

 

About the artist

Susan Grant

Susan Grant exhibited in Give Me Shelter, Attingham Park, 2009.

Image: Susan Grant, Dispossession. Plastic, steel, rods. Commissioned for Flow, Donlleywood, Nr. Kielder Water, by Art Circuit, 2007.