“A Room for Mrs Brown”
Christine Collins
9 Nov → 1 Dec 2007

‘There are no Mrs Browns in Utopia’, states Virginia Woolf, lamenting the lack of character, in the characters, of the fiction of the day; the creation of utopias without the creation of a real representative of humanity, to occupy the space and see it for us.

Are there no Mrs Browns for Utopia?

Apparently, Modern architecture died in 1972, on July 15, at 3:32 pm in St Louis, Missouri, as the Pruitt Sound housing scheme was detonated. Under the weight of the life of real characters, modern architecture crumbled. Utopia went missing in the rubble.

Are there no Utopias for Mrs Brown.

Christine Collins' new sound installation, developed for West Space, takes a look.

Christine Collins completed her Masters of Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art in 2003, with the assistance of a Samstag Scholarship. She has exhibited in Glasgow, Rotterdam, London and Mexico City and in Australia at CACSA, Object Gallery, Artspace and First Draft.

This project has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts SA.