New Walls Margaret Roberts

Margaret Roberts's exhibition New Walls examined both the social dimensions and phenomenological relations of the gallery space, through a site specific installation in which she reconstructed the walls of the Blue Oyster.

As Ali Bramwell writes in Unstable Memory: 10 Years at the Blue Oyster in 'Old, New, Borrowed, Blue: 10 Years at the Blue Oyster' - "New Walls foregrounded the physical and social experience of negotiating the gallery and instigated a phenomenological study of audience behaviour in the space. The institution of the Blue Oyster Gallery is understood in concrete terms that can be interrogated; literally as a building and also as the specific group of people who constitute a gallery’s main function; of generating art experiences."