Jan Pottinger-Glass

Jan Pottinger-Glass sets up encounters with female archetypes, which embody both positive and negative qualities. The figure of the ‘witch’ or ‘shamaness’ occupy this position, symbolically living on the boundary between civilisation and the dark aspects of the wild wood. In a collaboration with ‘Shroud Woman’ she will perform and document ‘rites’ that are a contradiction in terms. For Big Case Pottinger-Glass has proposed an alchemical experiment, concocted from the grounds. The residue of her intention will be left in the Glasshouse for the duration of the exhibition. Her own mythologising runs a pagan parallel to the stories surrounding Lauriston, like the latter its sincerity is questionable. Belief in her ‘spell sculptures’ is voluntary.