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existing space to convey the affect of a prior experience of desolation with water dripping and oozing from a rolled carpet to the floor. At
Counsell's post-graduate exhibition in 1990, her work attracted attention with an installation with water dripping and seeping through lockers air vents in the
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featured a film installed in a tower block basement recording the sight atop a building and then the descent as the camera was broken from being thrown down it. She moved to France and began teaching at the École Supérieur d’Art de
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Counsell uses a multitude of media such as 16mm film, drawing, printed matter, sculpture and sound for context. She created works in disused buildings and gallery installations creating "new psychological environments through intense manipulation of time and space, architecture and object."
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in Fine Art in 2013. Counsell has gone on group or solo exhibitions all over the world to showcase her works which have also been covered in the press. Her works are featured in corporate and private collections in France, Germany, Switzerland and the United
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mounted on scaffolding plates forming a triangular shape showing a rubbish lorry being driven by a duo of rubbish collectors who pick up bags of rubbish down a one-way street.
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