Up to Northumberland next weekend, for an exchange project with VARC. Myself and another four artists from the NewBridge Project are involved in a project called Response: A Rural / Urban Conversation. (http://www.varc.org.uk/news/2011/05/28/response-a-…) Bascially, this involves camping there for three days (yes, I know, I’m a bit stunned that I’m going to be doing this too) and making work on-site to show on the Sunday evening.
I’ll be making a series of pin-hole photographs of the surrounding landscape, which is really gorgeous – wild, sparce and open – which will then be projected in one of the old outhouses there. The walls in the outhouses are pretty rough and crumbly, which the photogrpahs will be projected directly against, kind of so the exterior landscape is becoming part of the interior space. This will be following on from the pin-hole work I was doing in the snow back in December. Looking forward to this, as I get to run around with a load of customised sweet times, and set up a darkroom in a old coal shed.
In September, Jenny Purrett, the current VARC artist-in-residence will be coming to work at the NewBridge studios with us for part two of the exchange. The work from High Bridge will be re-thought / re-worked in relation to the urban location before we show it again.
