EDWINA FITZPATRICK
Which album, film and book would you take to a desert island? “What’s Going On (Marvin Gaye); Orlando (Sally Potter); Forgotten Skills of Cooking (Darina Allen).”
Where is your studio and how long have you been there? My studio is both a room and an outdoor space in South London. I’ve been here for nearly nine years.
What is your earliest memory of art? Venetian glass walking sticks in Nottingham Castle Museum.
If you could own any work of art, which would it be? Lorenzetti’s The Allegory of Good and Bad Government fresco in the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena. Could you throw in the building as well?
When and where are you happiest? Now. Always now.
What is your greatest fear? Loved ones getting ill or dying.
If you could ask one question and receive a true answer, what would that question be? What is life like after death? (My husband died of Covid and I've just outlived my mother - she died at 61). I'm curious.
What is your greatest extravagance? Air travel.
Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to keep bees alive (I’m a bee-tender).
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes? A world without bees.
What to your mind would be the greatest of fortunes? Having complex and empathic understandings of our environments
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Having the memory that I had when I was 30.
What is your favourite drink? Potable water (and a cheeky little Argentinian Chardonnay).
What is your current state of mind? Combobulated.
Who is your favourite fictional hero/heroine? Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. Both he and she.
Who is your favourite fictional villain? Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva in Skyfall. Compellingly scary. Very much ‘he’.
If you had a superpower, what would it be? Time-space travel.
Which album, film and book would you take to a desert island? What’s Going On (Marvin Gaye); Orlando (Sally Potter); Forgotten Skills of Cooking (Darina Allen).
What would your ‘death row’ meal be? Pescatarian tasting menu and matching wine at a chef’s table WD-50 in New York (sadly now closed).
Which three historical figures would you like to have lunch with? Mahatma Gandhi, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela. We’d talk about changing minds.
What or who has been the biggest influence to your practice? Impossible to say. It keeps evolving.
Who will play you in the film of your life? Angelica Huston.
What would you do if you knew you could not fail? Make a feature film.
https://www.edwinafitzpatrick.com/
(Studio visit April 2017)
