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Elizabeth Price

When Elizabeth Price undertook a Research Fellowship with the University of Glasgow Library in 2020, the Turner Prize winning artist found a kaleidoscopic world beneath her feet. The vivid swirls that pattern the carpets lining the Mitchell Library in particular led to two new commissions about to go on show at the University’s Hunterian Art Gallery.

 

UNDERFOOT (2022) is a moving image work drawing from the photographic and pattern book archives of carpet manufacturers, Stoddard International Plc, and James Templeton and Co. Ltd. A complementary textile piece, SAD CARREL (2022), sees Price embark on her first non-video work in five years.

 

Commissioned by the Hunterian and developed with curatorial organisation, Panel, Fiona Jardine of Glasgow School of Art, and Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Price’s new constructions mine the sort of social histories that won her the 2012 Turner for her video, The Woolworths Choir of 1979 (2012).

 

With vinyl records forming a recurring motif in SAD CARREL, as a former member of 1980s indie band, Talulah Gosh, Price perhaps understands more than most how the production line of pop can open up new worlds. Price points as well to the patterns on the Mitchell’s carpets as having an “unexpected psychedelic effect. If carpets imagine another space, what space was/is imagined here.’    

 

Elizabeth Price, The Hunterian, Glasgow, 11thNovember-16thApril 2023

https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/exhibitionprogramme/elizabethprice/

 

The List, November 2022


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