MAYOR OF LONDON
Transport for London
A project inspired by Southwark May 2009
Jessie Brennan, LU staff and students from The Charter School Impossible Buildings: Interpreting Place ART ON THE UNDERGROUND
London Underground Impossible Buildings: Interpreting Place Jessie Brennan, LU staff and students from The Charter School Taking as a starting point the different ways in which artists draw from the world to create their own imaginary places, artist Jessie Brennan worked together with London Underground staff and students from The Charter School on a project to explore the area that connects Southwark Underground station and Tate Modern. The expedition started inside the station, where participants looked at and recorded their impressions of the built environment, architecture, materials and surfaces. They then went to look at a range of artworks at Tate Modern. Inspired by this journey, a series of three-dimensional models and drawings of ‘impossible buildings’ have been created. Together, these works reveal and reflect an array of individual interpretations and a multiplicity of interests in the world around us. A selection of the work is shown here and further images can be viewed online. This project was developed alongside Peter McDonald’s residency and billboard commission, Art for Everybody at Southwark Underground station. For more information or to leave a comment visit tfl.gov.uk/art
Jessie Brennan studied at Cardiff School of Art & Design and the Royal College of Art, London. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, including ‘Over and Over Again’, Sadlers Wells, London (2007), ‘Divination’, Brunswick Gallery, London (2008) and ‘Black Light’, Brook Gallery, Devon (2009). She is a visiting university lecturer in drawing and leads projects for a number of galleries in London. In 2006 she was a recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Bursary and awarded the Augustus Martin Prize in 2007. Inside: LU staff and students from The Charter School, drawings and models, 2009 Front cover and central fold-out poster: Jessie Brennan, Impossible Buildings, 2009 Pencil on paper
MAYOR OF LONDON
Transport for London
A project inspired by Southwark May 2009
Jessie Brennan, LU staff and students from The Charter School Impossible Buildings: Interpreting Place ART ON THE UNDERGROUND
London Underground Impossible Buildings: Interpreting Place Jessie Brennan, LU staff and students from The Charter School Taking as a starting point the different ways in which artists draw from the world to create their own imaginary places, artist Jessie Brennan worked together with London Underground staff and students from The Charter School on a project to explore the area that connects Southwark Underground station and Tate Modern. The expedition started inside the station, where participants looked at and recorded their impressions of the built environment, architecture, materials and surfaces. They then went to look at a range of artworks at Tate Modern. Inspired by this journey, a series of three-dimensional models and drawings of ‘impossible buildings’ have been created. Together, these works reveal and reflect an array of individual interpretations and a multiplicity of interests in the world around us. A selection of the work is shown here and further images can be viewed online. This project was developed alongside Peter McDonald’s residency and billboard commission, Art for Everybody at Southwark Underground station. For more information or to leave a comment visit tfl.gov.uk/art
Jessie Brennan studied at Cardiff School of Art & Design and the Royal College of Art, London. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, including ‘Over and Over Again’, Sadlers Wells, London (2007), ‘Divination’, Brunswick Gallery, London (2008) and ‘Black Light’, Brook Gallery, Devon (2009). She is a visiting university lecturer in drawing and leads projects for a number of galleries in London. In 2006 she was a recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Bursary and awarded the Augustus Martin Prize in 2007. Inside: LU staff and students from The Charter School, drawings and models, 2009 Front cover and central fold-out poster: Jessie Brennan, Impossible Buildings, 2009 Pencil on paper