Mine and Andrew’s exhibition at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, (Lister Park, Bradford) is up and running and please visit and make comments. The video above captures a few moments at the pv and gives a sense of how the work occupies the gallery space. Documentation of the sculpture is below and the 2D images can be seen at the “final images” post.
The central sculpture in the gallery is 3m x 1.8m and about 50cm high. I’ve used a lot of materials collected from the Watershed area , with stone contributions from the farm I grew up on in Halifax, (only just outside the watershed), which sadly is not worked any more, semi derelict- appropriate and poignant for the themes I have been dealing with: our intervention in and complex relationship with the landscape. How we mark the land and use its materials , how the landscape inhabits and co-exists, with shades of dominance and submission on either side.
There are about 240 people in there.
There’s a section where they are dressed in black, white and grey.
There are 10 images printed and mounted on di-bond: they are all below on a different post.
And there are Andrews poems – which work beautifully in the space. I like the way , at times and without prior discussion, our work shares the same thoughts – particularly with our mutual interest in the “outside-inside”, in different kinds of space with the vast and the personal. So, no forced interaction or collaboration but definately a meeting place.
Before entering the gallery , I have a piece of work which is an interpretation on a sculpture standing next to it, by Lombardi, called Susanna. I’ve put the explanatory text panel here and just want to say that my sculpture is quite simply re-adjusting the narrative to give Susanna a more optimistic scenario. It still looks at the issues inherent in the original- voyeurism, control, independance but my Susanna has built her own place where she can be naked and safe in comfort and without risk.
