Shifting from early institutional and architectural critique to personal poetic installations photography projects and sculptures British artist Helen Chadwick 1953 1996 produced a wide ranging body of work in an assortment of media In this book Stephen Walker looks beyond the apparent variety of this work and identifies a consistent range of issues and enduring interests Critical of the impact that limiting political philosophical and scientific constructions have on identity Chadwick s art can offer insights into a number of major enduring the relationship between body and space self and world between art and science between artifice and nature between theory and practice the creative self and the creative process Walker combines a close reading of Chadwick s notebooks and research with a broader investigation of their ongoing relevance for artistic and architectural work today Helen Chadwick Constructing Identities Between Art and Architecture International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art