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OPEN STUDIO ‘Letting the Light in…’ Justine Cook has been artist in residence at Gore Quarry over the last 12 months. It is possibly the first residency of it’s kind and Justine will be opening her studio as it comes […]
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Too long away…
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Equinox Yesterday was the first day of Spring. I have placed two stone pieces outside my studio in full sun. My intention is to leave them there from the Spring Equinox to the Autumn Equinox and trace the daylight by […]
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The day after my last post I was taken ill with pneumonia and hospitalised. I thought only old or compromised people got pneumonia not fit healthy people! Anyway, it’s taken a while to get back on top of things and […]
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On Sunday I was allowed into the quarry on my own for the first time. It was a gloriously sunny day with crisp white snow underfoot. Magical. I got to wander around and just look and think for an hour […]
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Nobody told me they were blasting yesterday, they forgot. To see a blast firing in the snow… So today I climbed up the hill and over the security fence to photograph the quarry in the snow. A landscape devoid of […]
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I’m finding photographs as well as film are becoming important. I’m using them more and more to make connections, or just to ask questions. The boulder just outside the studio window is intriguing me. Why is it there? Why hasn’t […]
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It seems appropriate to post about explosions on bonfire night. As part of my exploration of how the stones in the quarry fracture, I’ve created a small work of fractured stones held together by the shot blast wire.
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Water and a sink – the studio can function…
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Process The way in which we create work has come into focus for me at the moment. Because I am in the ‘spotlight’ so to speak by my hosts, I feel that I should have work to show them. They […]
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After posting I went on to read Jane Boyer’s latest entry and indirectly she made me remember an incident this week. At a meeting with my arts officer, she kept refering to my work as ‘conceptual’. Do you know, I […]
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A series of blastings and filming them. Not all good ‘blasts’, not all worth filming but somewhere in the middle… The quarry manager calls them ‘shot blasts’. Stood waiting for a blast, the siren blaring, I ask what the holes […]