Lindsay Rothwell

Instagram: @lindsay_rothwell

Website: http://lindsayrothwell.com

Bio: Lindsay Rothwell (b. 1976, Johannesburg, South Africa) lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work investigates memory and place using the architectural model as a container for human memory, and merging gaming software and 3D-modeling tools with art and architectural history. Rothwell received a BA in Studio Art from UCLA in 1998 and an MFA from Mills College in 2019. She has exhibited work at the Royal Academy of Arts, London; St Joseph’s Art Society, San Francisco; the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art; Gallery 120710, Berkeley; and more. She is the author of the 20th-century chapter of 30,000 Years of Art (Phaidon Press), and has taught at CSU East Bay, Mills College at Northeastern University, The British Library, and CCA. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the City of San Francisco.

Statement: Lindsay Rothwell 16’6” 2019 3D Model, Digital Video with sound 8:08 minutes Using the language and tools of architecture, 16’6” explores the embedded memories held within a space, and uses the architectural model as a container for human memory. Considering the house as an extension of the self, Rothwell uses the planes of the room to destabilize the normative authority of single-point perspective, and to unpack the layers of memory and culture embedded in our walls. In the Middle Ages, English landowners divided their lands with 16’6” rods. Sixteen and a half feet designated the space one serf was expected to work. 1000 years later in Victorian London, thousands of terraced houses were built for the working and middle classes. Each house was 16’6” wide. These buildings still stand.