Cracked Eggs (2016) — Social Art Library

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Aliyah Hussain, Clara Casian, Lisa Lorenz, Mike Redmond, Lauren Velvick, David Wilkinson

A photograph depicting the full modular 'Cracked Eggs' publication featuring work by Aliyah Hussain, Clara Casian, Mike Redmond and David Wilkinson. Photograph credit: Lisa Lorenz

Cracked Eggs is a mutable response to the copious work of Christopher Joseph Holme (1952 - 2010).

During 2016 creative practitioners; Aliyah Hussain, Clara Casian, David Wilkinson and Michael Redmond were commissioned to work with and respond to this remarkable collection. Holme was an unknown painter who can be construed as an outsider artist, but whose oeuvre also contradicts such a designation, comprising paintings, sketchbooks and diaries.

This project was a curatorial experiment towards finding an appropriate way of exploring and exhibiting the collection of work by Christopher J Holme, raising questions around the designation 'Outsider Art' and privileging a deeper one-on-one engagement over mass-viewership.

More information: https://cjh-cracked-eggs.tumblr.com/

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Lauren Velvick

Lauren Velvick is variously a writer, curator and/or artist based in the North of England. She is currently a Director and Contributing Editor of contemporary art and writing publication Corridor8, and is a regular contributor to Art Monthly. She was recently Associate Curator at The Art House, Wakefield and Assistant Curator at Humber Street Gallery, Hull. Departing from an educational background in history of art, her practice has consisted of projects to excavate and reassess cultural histories, and attempts to destabilise the category 'artist'. At present Lauren is engaged in a project to harness and focus the incidental, communal creativity and storytelling fomented by economic precarity and online communication.

https://l-velvick.tumblr.com/