Maeve Laurence, While you work, 2023

AiR’s The Valley Room

‘While you work’ (2023) considers who is making and mending the things we use/eat/need everyday and the places where this labour happens through observing/collecting/collaborating in a paradigmatic contemporary industrial estate: making – bread, kebabs, woodwork, signage, ducts, sculpture, clothes, ice-cream; mending – radios, cars, windscreens, dough mixers. Maeve collaborated with thirteen neighbours working on the Hastingwood Trading Estate to create incidental drawings with their everyday materials and processes - blood, rust, red oxide, grease, sawdust, dough, oil, clay, atomised paint, steel dust, hot air.