Editorial - Crease Issue 3

Crease issue three features the Elam Graduate Show 2004. The artists and writers in this issue pay particular attention to works featured in the Graduate show not only to address some of the more adverse aspects of such a show (short time-frame, space restrictions, few conspicuous titles to works and no artist commentary) but more importantly to give a variety of perspectives with which to critically position the work itself.

Of our writers, Chloe Lane discusses adhesives of the conceptual, risk taking variety, Pansy Duncan looks for the artist in a blackhole, Tahi Moore explores documentary and the necessity of lies, Helen Stewart is drawn in by windscreen wipers and Rachel O'Neill goes unconscious. The short reviews are back again and give a variety of insights into experiences of the Grad Show.

The poster image is composed of sixteen images selected from a group of 100 by graduate artist Brooke Woolley. The hand-worked mediations of old New York Book Review covers operate as double-exposures; the act of re-issuing the covers touches on ideas of relevancy, how the pertinence or value of information is subject to a multitude of influences. Crease Issue Three also doubles back on the Graduate show to emphasise the way viewing artwork involves a continual process of unfolding and refolding.

Chloe Lane, Rachel O'Neill and Susie Pratt.