Another element of research finds its beginnings in the make-up of Leeds’ new city museum that opened in 2008. Upon making friends with an assistant who worked there I managed to locate and attain a number of wooden panels that had some sort of use or pre-function: some sort of history that is unknown to me.
The strange thing is that they have perfect circular holes cut in them, the same point on each one.
I have begun to construct some sort of language with these boards: but they need a place to temporarily re-establish themselves….
Masking tape seems to be playing a part again, as some of them hang in my studio, left for days a then a little more is teased out of them
I’ve had them since April 2009: I wonder where they will end up.
Off hangs a tape measure: not so sure what this is for yet…
in getting to think about how the drawings are displayed: I have thought about framing the three paintings / drawings in order to present them altogether as a tryptic. they make more sense together.
the image attached to this post helps visualise this.
in have also been working on how the light installation shall be installed:making drawings from the things that will make it function. this will be scanned in and uploaded shortly…
This images was first uploaded onto the Transmission Gallery website under my profile.
take a look here
Transmission gallery: memebers profile
Here I wanted to play around with the notion of how something can be displayed, using visual language and concept in order to re-visualise something, work something out. Each of these nine drawings is taken either from a documentary photograph of a film being made, or is taken from a still of the film that has been made.
The film in questions makes a visual and physical link between the alter flats, the patterns in the design, the tools that were used to manufacture the temporary pendulum that the camera was swung from (several extension leads plugged into the mains above – in the attic). The film makes the connection, through function, between the attic and the publicly accessible floor in the church.
The drawings were separated and inserted into old slide frames. This makes a further reverence to how something is recorded / documented, how it is stored and then how it is displayed.
These are some images from a project I am currently working on: culminating in a visual exhibition, the work has taken on elements of research and exploration into architectural space and function. The subject is a church, in which the exhibition itself will be held. I am exploring notions of representation as the building is seen as a functional arena, a timepiece, and an example of period interior design. Furthermore the idea of hidden / non-public space that is functional to the place as a timepiece (the bell tower) will be represented in the physically accessible alter flats.
The symbols are taken from the design on the alter flats, yet are painted systematically to engage with the page and lines in which they fit. The other imagery is made up from notational script / ideas / scribbles as well as plans and forecasts of what will eventually be a self emanating light installation.
A recent exhibition at Wakefield’s Westgate Studios puts some of my work in context with the interior and exterior environment.
The exhibition falls under the name Artomata and consults the notion of artists in multiple disciplines working under the process of the artist as a machine.
This piece works with the idea of representation. the chess borad is painted, the painting is framed. the subject is the chess board, which is then presented as the the representation. where as the painting as it resides on the floor emenates elements of object, the things that is represented instead of the actual representation itself. the tools of communication and rules are the chess pieces, these are arranged and drawn into the space.
the whole piece interacts with the sun coming through the window. the pattern of gridded fire escape and the radiator inside the sash window. all elements of visuality that interplay with notions of representation.
