- Venue
- Dean Clough Galleries
- Starts
- Saturday, February 7, 2009
- Ends
- Sunday, March 29, 2009
- Address
- Crossley Gallery Dean Clough Halifax HX3 5AX
- Location
- Yorkshire
Them And Us = labour of love. It's taken 3 years, money I haven't got, and a small circle of friends braving nasty English weather and unsociable hours. We travelled all over the place; forests, oceans, country estates, beaches, power stations …yes power stations, with a very VERY heavy furnace blowing glass birds and setting them free. Despite my own breath filling their bellies, the sparrows, crows, seagulls kestrels and swallows crashed and burned in their still boiling state. Sad I know. Infact the more life-like the birds became the more difficult it was to send them to their doom. I was just another man playing God, whilst the loyal Mr 'Glass Blower' Brown fetched the wings and the talented Mr Lindsay took the pictures.But why?I prefer the audience to interpret this work in their own way, but I have been known to say Them and Us is a comment on the Western notion that possessions improve our quality of life. It was murmured that I also pointed towards the collapse of primary industry in the UK as a point of concern, citing Wakefield as one of the places where scores of skilled labourers working in the glass industry have had their skills rendered worthless as more companies source cheaper imports from abroad.Come along on the 7th. I promise you will not have seen anything like this in your life before …because it has never been done before. Ha!
