About Janice Kerbel

Photograph by Sarah Ainslie

London-based Canadian artist Janice Kerbel frequently produces work in the form of plans and studies (for instance, wall-mounted gardens for council flats, or respiration gardens for gyms) that promise to be realisable but are never to be fulfilled. Her internationally-exhibited projects include: Underwood, a series of love letters to the seasons; Bank Job and 15 Lombard St, the meticulously detailed plan for robbing one of London’s city banks; Home Fittings, studies of buildings that show where to step without creaking or casting shadows; and The Bird Island Project (www.bird-island.com), the fictitious development of a paradise island resort. To create Nick Silver Can’t Sleep Kerbel for the first time developed a work in conversation with and for a specific group. This Artangel Interaction commission was also her first play.