'What Do You Dream Of?' (2020)

By

Sarah Dixon

A photograph of an old red British telephone box with artwork displayed in the top window frame.

A photograph of an old red British telephone box with artwork displayed in the top window frame.

 

A decommissioned red telephone box on Summer Street in Stroud (UK) became a temporary art gallery, viewable from the outside - making a Covid-safe art show in spring 2020.

I asked my neighbours on Summer Street to respond to the question, ‘What Do You Dream Of?’. Participants created work for display in the small glass panels of the phone box, measuring between 37.5 x 17 cm and 6 x 17 cm."

An opening ‘Public View’ event took place on 31 May at 3pm, with viewings spaced at safe distances. Visitors took turns walking around the box and enjoying the art and reading out poetry from the works to the other visitors who stood in the road and along the path by the phone box.

I would like to explore further the possibilities, both material and symbolic, of phone boxes and other public space relics of outdated technology. This was a small but impactful project.

The project was supported by Create Gloucestershire and Strike A Light with Cheltenham Festivals

To view a PDF of the publication What do you dream of?, scroll through the document below:

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Sarah Dixon

Born in London, raised in Cyprus and the Middle East, and now based in rural England, Dixon is a socially-engaged conceptual artist using primarily painting, participation, performance and installation. Her work explores collaborative art making and ideas around how the 'human social organism' can be reinvented. Self-taught, By training a biologist, she has worked in the Amazon, the Hindu Kush and elsewhere. As co-founder of The Women’s Art Activation System, with Sharon Bennett - she activates women’s art, specifically pushing at the limits placed on middle-aged women with children. Her work has been shown at the ICA, QUAD Gallery, Oblong Gallery and on a cyberbus in Moscow. During the 2020 pandemic lockdown, Dixon created a phone box community art show, performed via Zoom at Grace Exhibition Space New York, received an Arts Council England Emergency Grant and took part in UNIDEED 2020 virtual residency in Biella, Italy.

https://sarahdixonfineart.co.uk/

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