Installations
I prefer to exhibit my work in places where people spend time. Galleries are excellent venues, but it is my policy to engage a new audience wherever possible. I also find it interesting to engage with institutions like museums and libraries because it develops the work in interesting ways.
Something Rich and Strange
This was a major exhibition at South Square, Thornton, Bradford. It began with a call-out for sculpture for the garden. Later I developed this into an exhibition about the recycling of life, compost and biochemistry. I used painting, photography, print, sculpture and archival material
This exhibition also toured to The Soil Association Conference in Bristol.
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Enlightenment: Maps, Plants and the Triangular Trade
As artist in residence at The Leeds Library, I worked with the director and librarians to design an installation that would enhance the appeal of the library without affecting its function.
After a lot of research, I produced a display of library resources together with my own printed and constructed responses.
The exhibition and talk about the exhibition described a kind of journey into the archives and showed work inspired by the stopping points on the journey.
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The Land – Layers Through Time
This dual site exhibition was installed in Grassington, North Yorkshire. The Upper Wharfedale Folk Museum, situated in the main square, hosted the research and Installation, and The Wishbone gallery was the site for wall based framed work, artist books and catalogues.
This print project, based on aerial mapping, surveying techniques and satellite images, examined the evidence for history in the landscape. Called “The Land-Layers Through Time,” it questioned assumptions made about this landscape and analysed the way the past has been invented and obscured by the present.
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