Grid Systems

Horizontal Composition 1 & 2 – Click on the image to view image sequence.

I recently read about Sarah Morris the artist who is currently “facing accusations of plagiarism and a multimillion-pound claim for compensation from six artists who argue that she has stolen their work… The six allege that Morris’s set of abstract paintings entitled “Origami” – a series of at least 37 works – are merely coloured-in copies of their intricate origami representations of hummingbirds, grasshoppers and other animals, birds and insects, produced using the centuries-old Japanese craft of paper-folding.”

I bought “Grid Systems” by Kimberly Elam some time ago drawn to page upon page of line diagrams in grids with the very intention of committing the exact same crime of “colouring-them-in”. Weather I have done enough to make these my own is debatable. Maybe not yet, though I don’t anticipate the Tate buying them for large sums of money but I may be tempted if they came knocking.