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' One of my earliest memories is of playing inside my father's geodesic dome. He built it from clear plastic, in the Buckminster Fuller style, on the edge of Prospect Bay in Nova Scotia. Later, when I was about 7, he built us a yurt with a spiral maze entrance. This started something I have never been able to let go. I made homes for myself in trees, in holes in the ground, old cars, from barn junk, wherever I could find a space that looked good for hiding. I see everything as a potential new world in miniature.
These days its an obsession with Prospect and Refuge. Venturing out from those spaces, hunting for treasure and running back to the cave. Anyway I have a longstanding art-interest in spectacle, precious materials, theme parks, science fiction, manufactured nostalgia and orchestrated public space. And of course landscape. I tie these together with notions of the commonwealth and it’s a bouquet of post-colonial, political, popculture weeds.
This collection of recent work plays with those things.'
Pandora grew up in Canada. She spent her teenage years in the Montreal punk scene and emerged with permanent scars and a problem with hierarchy. After moving to London she made graphics and designs for bands and corporations for many years, and still does. She holds a BA in Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, an MA Art in Architecture from University of East London and is working on an MA in Landscape Architecture. Her work has been in numerous exhibitions in Canada and the UK. She is currently working on a public art commission to design a footbridge in Somerset and on landscape projects in North Wales.
Her fixations are past visions of the future, spaces of incarceration, the human zoo and the need for topiary.
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