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Invigilating c.1980, responding to the whole visual environment


Eleanor Engle

Transcript
You know, at the age 19, 20, it was really, I think it was probably very influential on me. The fact that, it wasn't just that it was pictures all over the wall, but it was that everything was, sort of, mixed in together. Lots of people said, 'Oh, it's so nice because it has such a peaceful atmosphere there', but I think for me, really, it was just that it was a... the whole thing was a whole visual environment. Visual language is not the thing in Cambridge and that's what I was pining for, that's what I wanted. Being in that environment, you know, having the excuse to be there for two hours on a Saturday to let people in, but really it was so that I could just soak in that whole... and look at, really just, not just soak in but actually look at all that whole visual environment - it's pebbles next to wild flowers next to Gaudier-Brzeska, a bit of thing, a bit of sculpture... I suppose because I sat on that table letting people in, that really sunk into me somewhere.