Join artist Eloise Hawser for a guided walk along Oxford’s Thames Path to Newspaper House in Osney Mead, exploring the history and infrastructure of local newsprint in Oxford.
Eloise Hawser is one of the commissioned artists part of Barbara Steveni: I Find Myself. Find out more about her below.
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Eloise Hawser is a conceptual sculptor and mixed media artist. Her work seeks to locate our sometimes strained, hidden, or lost relationships with the material world, and dwells on sites and spaces which organise ‘material life’ in a consumer-saturated society.
Her particular focus on infrastructure explores the systems that discipline and shape our daily lives, whether transport networks or waste management processes. Her work considers the interplay between the histories of sites and those who have shaped them, in turn revealing how infrastructure acts to filter and organise social and material life.
Eloise’s approach involves the isolation and/or recuperation of objects and raw materials from their familiar contexts, as well as the insertion of herself into processes and spaces where artists do not usually appear. This entering-in then creates opportunities for public engagement, and her work frequently includes walks and visits to functional sites usually inaccessible to the public – and she becomes a navigator of the roles of observer, agitator, and guest. Central to her project is the sifting-through of our multiple attachments to material things – scientific, practical, emotional, and so on. This exploration has led her to research skeuomorphs, trace waste-to-energy processes, and consider medical technologies that map the human body.