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\nE-mail:librarycant@uca.ac.uk  \nuniversitycollege  \nforthecreative arts  \ngtcaoterburyepsom fornham  \nmodstoneondrocheste  \nCanterburv.New Dover Road.Canterburv.Kent CT13AN 01227817314  \nThis book is to be returned on or before the last date stamped below  \nFines will be charged on overdue books  \n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n\n们0  \n10  \nFEB 2005  \nNEW D0VER ROAD  \nGANTERBURY  \nCT13AN  \n# Julie Roberts\n\nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nhttps://archive.org/details/julieroberts0000unse  \nPresented by  \nGlasgow Print Studio28th September -26th October 1996  \n&  \nTalbot Rice Gallery,University of Edinburgh  \n11th January -8th February 1997  \nThe faces along the barCling to their average dayThe lights must never go outTbe music must always playLest zwe should see zure zwe areLost in a haunted woodCbildren afraid of the darkWho bave never been bappy or good  \nW.H.Auden  \nConsciousness is a path through the haunted wood.Stray too far and you will quickly get lost.Youwill he holnloe in tho bnde of hiddon toror Vou  u    r find        …                  tWIll be nelpless in the hands of hidden terrors.You may never find your way back---or that iswhat you are supposed to think.  \nArtists have for long explored this apparently dark and dangerous territory.The Surrealists mountedgrand expeditions into it's interior kitted out like Victorian explorers.Sigmund Freud was their guide.Julie Roberts work in this catalogue includes a painting of Freud's desk and chair.Thus at one level,she presents an immediate affinity between her work and theirs.Continuity with Surrealism has beenone of the most consistent features in art in the last decades,so Roberts is part of the mainstream.But much of this continuity has been through the radical anarchic visual language that linked theSurrealists use of automatic drawing to the subversive imagery of Dada.It was a way of trying toreplicate the fluidity of the unconscious mind far beyond the conventional borders of consciousness.t was also intensely individualistic.  \nBut Roberts goes back to the original inspiration of some of the Surrealist painters and film makerswhere the artists effort was directed to exploring those borders themselves and making us consciousnot only of them,but of how close they always are,how the lines that define them are drawn bysociety,not the individual,and that what lies in the darkness immediately beyond those lines isperhaps more forbidden than simply dangerous.  \nCharacteristically,Roberts takes an object,paints it with intense and vivid realism and sets it,completely isolated,in a field of strong,unbroken colour.It is not the flux of experience,but the  \ndisturbing power of the fixed image,sharply focused,that she presents.She captures the potency ofactual and particular things.It suggests how close that edge always is and points to the way thatthings are deployed to warn us to keep away from it.The very lack of visible context in her paintingspowerfully conveys how the object implies it's own context,creates it's own magnetic field of meaning.  \nA painting of Freud's desk and chair was first shown as an installation in a gallery in Sweden,the OlleOlsson Huset.The work assembled in the exhibition explored the presence of this edge and theconsequences of the way respect for it is enforced even in the context of domesticity.  \nThe gallery had formerly been a private residence and home to Olle Olsson,the Swedish naive painter.In the painting Teenage Suicide a female lies across a single divan with her doll at her side and ahandkerchief covering her face,a tragic isolated figure.In contrast,The Infanta Margarita's Blue Dressis an image of perfect---unnaturally perfect---childhood,the dress's symmetry devised as armouragainst such destructive emotion.The Dining Table summarises the family order based on 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