Satellite Portflio 2011
Selected by Aid and Abet
On sale at Aid and Abet from 30th September 2011 http://aidandabet.co.uk/
Participating members featured in the first Satellite Portfolio are Dominic Allen, Jo Chapman, Polly Cruse, Nicola Naismith, Kate Parrott, Dominique Rey.
Nicola Naismith:
Old Mill
A3 hand drawn ink on graph paper
Explorations of hand and digital modes of production, work and manufacturing repeatedly feature in the work of Nicola Naismith as she presents ideas about the changing nature of making and working lives. Most recently she completed a residency at Hethel Engineering Centre where she explored and mapped some of the changes and developments in contemporary engineering from an artist perspective. Naismith views process as practice and integrates contextual research into her projects, she works to commission and self initiated projects.
In this edition Naismith has taken time to reproduce an image thirty seven times by hand using the inconsistencies of pen and ink. Presented on graph paper the work makes reference to precision, only here it is of the hand drawn kind. The Old Miill is an image from the Hethel residency, the machine is situated in the workshop and shares a space with a Computer Numerically Controlled mill which is designed to eliminate human error and the occurrence of variability.
