Past Exhibition

New Walls.

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Tuesday 20 -
Friday 30
June

2000

New Walls

An exhibition by Margaret Roberts titled New Walls.

Margaret Roberts's exhibition New Walls examined both the social dimensions and phenomenological relations of the gallery space, through a site specific installation in which she reconstructed the walls of the Blue Oyster.

As Ali Bramwell writes in Unstable Memory: 10 Years at the Blue Oyster in 'Old, New, Borrowed, Blue: 10 Years at the Blue Oyster' - " New Walls foregrounded the physical and social experience of negotiating the gallery and instigated a phenomenological study of audience behaviour in the space. The institution of the Blue Oyster Gallery is understood in concrete terms that can be interrogated; literally as a building and also as the specific group of people who constitute a gallery’s main function; of generating art experiences."