Helen Chadwick

''Shifting from early institutional and architectural critique to personal poetic installations photography projects and sculptures British artist Helen Chadwick (1953-1996) produced a wide-ranging body of work in an assortment of media. In this book Stephen Walker looks beyond the apparent variety of this work and identifies a consistent range of issues and enduring interests. br/> critical of the impact that limiting political philosophical and scientific constructions have on identity chadwick''s art can offer insights into a number of major enduring questions: The relationship between body and space self and world; between art and science; between artifice and nature; between theory and practice the creative self and the creative process. Walker combines a close reading of chadwick''s notebooks and research with a broader investigation of their ongoing relevance for artistic and architectural work today.'' .