Lynn Cox Greater London, United Kingdom
As a blind artist who has lost her sight slowly over 30 years, I’m interested in how much of seeing is through the eyes compared to perceptions, sensations, memories and intuition. I essentially draw lines to investigate this relationship between visual and other ways of appreciating the world. So, my creations can be drawings, complicated interwoven wire sculptures, or even audio and video.
My artwork stimulates all of the senses and isn’t limited to sight alone; often it incorporates two or three sensual effects within one artwork layering the complexity.
My visual impairment has informed the work. As my sight has slowly deteriorated to nothing, I’ve learnt to gauge a room size by its echo/reverb, associate smells with locations and people, etc. Enriching the visual world with memory associations.
I’ve also always been interested in how we see and what we see, whether it is real, memory, longing, suggested to us, etc. I love the visual play with some drawings and seeing one image or another but never both within the visual puzzles – how can that be done through sculpture too?
My wire sculptures are meant to be slightly confusing when seen purely on a visual level, but when touch is added to them some of the ambiguity is resolved – but some still remains as I wouldn’t want to give you the whole concrete image. I like to play about with this visual narration, adding the senses to help clarify and enhance the artworks.
I’m also becoming interested in Psychohistory, which is my own term to represent the historical/memory similarities/ connections which create a psychological ambience. These notions come from my career as a Psychogeographer (using psychological sensations) to work with landscapes, now I want to go into an additional dimension of time too.
Artwork
Dogprint, Metallic tape on gallery floor, 2003
Triathon runners, Black paper and red wool, 2003
The Golden Octagon of a Tangy Undulation Disappearing into one Saffron Sigh, Audio artwork, 2001
Waxworks, scented wax on coloured card/board, 2009
Golden Fountain, Handwritten Laminated text, plastic, black card, gold pen, 2001
Double Take: Ride Away Front and Back, Black card, white wool, 2003
Ram’s Head , Chicken wire, plaster bandage, 2001
Socially Distanced Skirt WIP , Copper Wire, White Canes, 2021
Pat!!!! RIP , Photograph, 2005
My City, video, 1995
Please Touch!, Tactile disks, perspex, 2009
Cubic Dreams, Wood, mirror, 1995
Runaway, 2020
Champs Like Us, Perspex, rope, 2003
Shelter Me, Copper Wire, Oak wood base, 2024, £400
Disappearing Illusions, canvas board, coloured gel medium, 2022
Forgotten Lines, wooden frame, canvas, coloured gel medium, 2022
Viola II, Wooden frame, felt, chocolate, coffee, spices, herbs., 2016, £200
Playday, Wooden frame, felt, beads, 2006
Outrageous Lovelocked, Wooden frame, fur, hidden chimes, germolene, chain, safety pins, pad lock and keys, 2016
Abundance, Copper wire, Pom Poms, mirror base, 2022, £175
'Tree', Copper wire, pom poms, Perspex base, 2023, £200
Recall, Copper wire, Perspex base, 2022, £60
Remembrance, Copper Wire, Wooden Base, 2015, £250
Who Do You See, white canes, found object (dolls), 2017
Randomaker, Fake fur material, wooden frame, scented wax, 2016
Basketball Player WIP, Copper Wire, 2020, £80
Self Portrait, Copper Wire, wooden base, 2015, £450
Metaphor Me II (blue), Blue felt, coloured yarns, 2021
Collaborative Clusters (Favourites), wooden plinths, aluminium armature wire, found objects, 2017
Hands On, Holographic tape (on window), 2003
Wall Print, 2001, £250
Streamscape, framed colour photograph, 1998?
Metaphor Me II (yellow), Yellow felt, coloured yarns, 2021
Randomix, wooden frame, velvet material, chocolate, 2016
Voila I, wooden frame, felt, chocolate, coffee, spice and herbs, 2016, £200
A Cracking Good Time, Glass, ceramics (plate), 2001, £100
Anagrammatical 'Unsods', Audio, 2001
The Waiting Game, dynamo tape, mirror, Original: 2003 (reproduced 2018)
Le Tour, Rope and Pins (on wall), Original: 2012 (reproduced 2018)
Wiry Old Man, Copper Wire, 2013
Gaze of hu-MAN-ity(The Monster Who Will Save Us), Copper Wire, Perspex Base, 2023, £1,450
Grass in Greener, Velvet, upholstery material, 2001
The Winter Tree, Copper Wire, Perspex base, 2022, £100
Hands That Feel, Copper Wire, Wooden Base, 2015, £100
202020 Psychogeographer’s Tale and More, video, 2013
Lynn Cox London Working Walk OutSights 2020 , 2020
Art-iculate, Digital media, 2003
Fur and Hands, Copper Wire, Wooden Frame, Fake Fur, 2016
Pat!!!, Resin, Wood, Newspaper and Clothing, 2000
Architectural Hiss, coloured (dark purple)tape on white card, 2020