The name ‘Painted Deserts’ is more often associated with Arizona’s rocky badlands, but a new exhibition at SPACE shows how east London’s own ‘badlands’ are shaping up for 2012 and beyond.
4 May 2007
Angela Meredith
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Visual Arts
On May 24, 2004, Hackney-based artists Caroline Christie and Bobby Lloyd peered out of their windows and saw smoke rising on the horizon.
Since 2003, the pair had been photographing the changing landscape in the Lower Lea Valley, earmarked for development and now the site for the 2012 Olympics. The smoke proved to be not without fire and they were able to capture stunning images of the aftermath of the ‘Britart’ fire, in which an important chunk of the nation’s modern art collection was destroyed.
Angela Meredith is a freelance journalist/writer who covers the Arts, travel and leisure and consumer health. Her work has appeared on websites such as Men’s Health, Discovery Health and TravelZoo – and this year she worked on the launch of the website Moneypage.com as Travel/Leisure writer. She contributes accident and health and safety news to a personal injury website and has written extensively for the b2b journal Pharmacy Business. Angela is a former winner of Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate Award for new playwrights and has written for BBC TV. In 2007 she was short listed for the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook’s New Novel Award. She began her career as an actress and still acts occasionally. She is a full member of the NUJ and Equity and has a BA (Joint Hons) in Literature & History of Art and an MA in Literature.
