Travelling Companions
Presented by CRASSH, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge.
This exhibition is now reopened until 3rd December 2021
The exhibition Travelling Companions has been conceived by curator and academic Ro Spankie, in collaboration with Fay Ballard and Judy Goldhill.
The exhibition builds on the success of Breathe held at the Freud Museum London in 2018 and conversations triggered by the objects on Sigmund Freud’s desk. Both artists have been investigating memory, home, spirit of place, and the role of evocative objects in people’s lives. Fay draws the belongings she retrieved from her father’s house after his death. Judy photographs the night skies, together with, the massive observatories and telescopes that allow us to look beyond this world.
Alongside the exhibition fellow travellers have been invited to describe their travelling companions in image and text as part of Objects of the Week. Released in digital format these can be viewed at http://arbart.crassh.cam.ac.uk/travelling-companions-online-exhibition/.
Ranging from representations of self, of home, of someone loved, to more practical things that the individual can’t travel without, these objects both expand on ideas in the exhibition and form a reminder that none of us travels empty handed.
Click below for the online catalogue.
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28826
Travelling Companions Q@A with Judy Goldhill, Fay Ballard and curator Ro Spankie
Film of installation and conference on Who or What is your Travelling Companion? at Alison Richard Building, Cambridge