Wendy Parkin

‘Unnoticed’ 2008

New Talent profiles new works by Fine Art students at Sunderland University. Wendy Parkin’s image has been selected to coincide with the exhibition ‘A Modest Proposal’, The show brings together artists from around the world who develop proposals to improve the world, or situations to change our outlook upon it – all of which are entirely logical, but which remain surprising or startling.

Parkin notes that the work makes concrete the traditional turn of phrase, ‘Time and tide wait for no man’. The characters depicted are “so totally absorbed in a conversation or enjoying an activity that the passing of time has gone unnoticed”. She queries whether we are all, to some extent or other, oblivious to our surroundings most of the time.