26 April 16

Instruments of Industry

25th March - 11th June. A new exhibiiton of works by Hannah Leighton-Boyce. Sound Installation, drawings and graphic score developed during a 12 month residency in Touchstone's Gallery and Museum archive.
Venue
Touchstones Art Gallery
Starts
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Ends
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Address
The Esplanade, Rochdale OL16 1AQ
Location
North West England

Instruments of Industry; Sound installation, Blueprints (score) and Drawings created over a 12 month residency in Touchstones Museums’ archive. The work was developed in response to the archives collection of historic hand-tools and explores the resonance of these silent tools within their elevation to museum objects.

Instruments of Industry approaches the tool as an extension of ourselves; our contact, relationship to and being in the world. It draws on the connection between the Museum’s collection of trade tools and their resting place, Thomas Robinson and Son’s a former engineering works which now houses the archive. These prehensile tools have been elevated to museum objects and represent our pre-industrial relationship to work. Disembodied from the hands and minds that worked them, they are no longer ‘present at hand’ and remain at a distance, carefully preserved as an object of esthetic and historic value.

The work was funded through a New Opportunities Award by New Expressions 3, in partnership with Visual Arts South West, CVAN, Arts Council England and Touchstones Rochdale.New Expressions is a national approach to collaboration between contemporary artists and museums. It explores how partnership working can be structured to provide fresh approaches to collections and engaging visitor experiences across England.

http://www.hannahleightonboyce.com/

http://www.newexpressions.org/

http://www.link4life.org/whats-on/touchstones-rochdale/exhibitions