Texts

Absent Authors, by Sacha Craddock

This essay appeared in the exhibition dossier for the exhibition Absent Authors at APT Gallery London.

Extract
Fascinated by Isabelle Graw, who writes of the imagined relation between the purchaser of an artwork and the artist themselves, Fitzmaurice plays with the way in which a generally inanimate object is still…read on

Absent Authors, curator’s statement

In 2021, supported by Arts Council funding, I curated a group exhibition at APT Gallery, London.

Extract
My idea for Absent Authors first took shape in 2018 after reading various texts by - and in response to - the German art critic Isabelle Graw who claims that each artwork somehow “contains the ghostly presence of the absent author”. Read on