New Defence Exhibition
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Archive
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Venue:
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Location:
London
For ‘Deep Spoils’, the Glasgow-based Scottish artist’s first exhibition in Wales, Claire Barclay has responded to the history and architecture of Swansea’s Mission Gallery by reconfiguring existing works alongside new elements. Anneka French discovers more about her distinctive practice that draws on industrial motifs to explore materiality and memory.
“A Haecceity has neither beginning nor end, origin nor destination; it is always in the middle. ” Alan, Taylor, Haecceity (he ke’ti) 1996- The University of Texas at Arlington, http:///www.uta.edu/english/apt/d&g/haeccity,html A week into my residency and the installation of […]
Over the past few weeks as my residency approached I have been revisiting the mossland locations from within the scan data. This process helps me to focus on the memory and experience of being in place and then translate this […]
studio activity, February 2018.
HI I’d like to find a professional exhibitions photographer to document developing and finished work to show case, or possibly in the event to respond to. It would work better if the photographer’s own work is concerned with texture, light/ […]
Somerset Art Works invited London based writer/curator Angela Kingston to review ‘In The Air’, a sound installation created by artist David Ward for Somerset Art Weeks 2017.
This Professional Development Bursary was to pay for mentoring from curators to help me develop and contextualise my practice within current curatorial thinking. Aiming to examine and reflect on my work and make future plans for directions and potential outcomes.
A long overdue post… After completing my Graduate residency at AirSpace Gallery, and working on my work for a while, I decided to take the plunge and apply for New Art West Midlands 2017. I did not feel confident enough […]
This post is a reflection on the challenges of developing my theoretical position and how this underpins my practice and work. As my research is practice-based, theoretical writing is optional but is something that I am interested in. However it […]
Not only has the a-n bursary allowed me to spend time in the studio intensively experimenting with different projection techniques and editing videos, it has also given me the time to research forests. I have done this by immersing myself […]
I’ll be giving an artist talk on 24 January on my commission, Echo at Pyramid Arts Centre, Warrington, in association with CVAN and Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival and alongside artist Ellen Sampson. All welcome, full details and booking (free event): http://warringtonartsfestival.co.uk/event/artist-talk […]
‘Fire and Ice’, on show at the UK’s award-winning art space for art + environment, explores nature, light and power, raising questions about energy use, over-use and climate change.
Huge thank you to writer Sara Jaspan for this insightful new piece of writing about my work – Spatial Conversations.
As ice carved its way through Cheshire thousands of years ago, wetland bowls were left behind creating a unique ecosystem unlike any other. A century ago, sphagnum was used as an emergency field dressing known simply as a soldier’s saviour, […]
Haecceity is a commissioned residency as part of the 2017 Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival. Over the coming months Tracy Hill will explore wetland locations around Warrington. Specifically Hill will be examining our human relationship with these post industrial spaces.
i sit and get myself comfortable. above the laptop is a view into the garden, the naked strands of willow are being toyed with by the ebbing breeze. with great excitement i edit and upload the images from last week. […]