i received these photographs of the art exhibition on the map from the exhibition curator at hastings museum in the e-post today…it looks good; i hope to get to see the exhibition before it closes in june 2012 (and visit the newly opened jerwood gallery, which is also in hastings)...
Clare Brewster, The little birds, papercuts (left wall); Carl Jaycock, Blue Blood - We all want the world, four digital prints (centre right);
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Judith Adler, Floorboard Crossing, digital photographs (left); Sally Underwood, Triptych, knitted textile (centre); Jazz Green, Earthbound II & III, mixed media on panel (right);
Judith Shaw, Icelandic Journey I & II, paint and photographic image on paper (left);
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Jean Davey Winter, Wetlands - Mapping, acrylic on canvas (centre);
[exhibition photography © 2012 Alexander Brattell]On the Map features the work of eighteen contemporary artists whose work is variously inspired and informed by maps, cartography and mapping the environment. (I have two works in this exhibition). 'On the Map' is at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, curated by Catherine Harvey, exhibitions officer & keeper of world art.…On the Map: Historic Maps & Contemporary Map Art10 March – 17 June 2012Hastings Museum and Art GalleryJohns Place, Bohemia Road, Hastings, TN34 1ETview location on google maps...
a new exhibition on the map
two of my recent 'earth/bound' artworks have been selected for a forthcoming art exhibition, on the map, at hastings museum and art gallery.
[on the map, hastings museum & art gallery]...on the map (which includes a display of hastings museum's collection of historical maps) opens to the public on saturday 10 march 2012 and the exhibition is open daily until 17 june 2012....
[earth/bound ii 2011, detail]the above image is a detail of the textured surface of the painting, earth/bound ii. see a few more of the earth/bound series of mixed media works on panel on my new paintings page - and of course, this painting can currently be seen in the on the map art exhibition, if you are in sussex or the south coast region of england, uk....on the map features the work of eighteen contemporary artists whose work is variously inspired and informed by cartography and mapping the environment.there are also some special events in conjunction with the on the map art exhibition. here is a list of the events at hastings museum & gallery in march 2012:travelling around our worldfree museum trails & activities on the theme of transport and exploration(daily; enquire at reception desk)the unbuilt room : seth kriebel saturday 17 march 2012a performance game for five people at a timeevery half hour from 11.30am – 3.00pm(free) map-making workshop : ed boxall saturday 17 march 201211.00am to 1.00pm and 1.30pm to 3.30pm(free)mapping hastingsan illustrated talk by steve peaksaturday 24 march 20122pm£4 (includes tea & cake)visit the hastings museum and art gallery website for more information on the on the map art exhibition and related gallery events....On the Map: Historic Maps & Contemporary Map Art10 March - 17 June 2012Hastings Museum and Art GalleryJohns Place, Bohemia Road, Hastings, TN34 1ETView location on Google Maps...A satellite view of Hastings, courtesy of Google Earth
Image © 2012 Google © 2012 Infoterra Ltd & Bluesky...
time travels
i have finally got around to cataloguing some artwork (from slides) from my student days in london...
shifting perspectives 1991
[detail... 25cm x 25cm]shifting perspectives, 1992... what i said about this work at the time..On a map, a river is shown by a simple line, with no indication of flow or force. Rivers are primary routes of exploration and navigation, shaping the surrounding landscape. All of these rivers (the twenty five longest rivers in the world) are made in high relief, with handmade paper and resin using moulds, recreating a geological process, arranged in ordered segments to evoke the charting and cataloging of the environment... underneath each tile is the total length in miles of the river in white vinyl lettering.(this piece of work was in my degree show and was later exhibited in the new contemporaries)
on the road (to newcastle) 1991, 48 ins x 64 insbased on a street map of newcastle, this piece explores how we are directed to move through a manmade environment. the dotted white line passes once through each square oblivious to the road infrastructures, and the red route roughly follows the same course, but is limited by traffic and road systems..
[detail of on the road..]my original idea was to create a series of large works based on major cities of the UK, but i only got as far as Liverpool..
[liverpool landscape; the left side..]
[liverpool landscape; detail]
[liverpool landscape, taken before completion of the right side, 96 ins x 64 ins]
[liverpool landscape 1991, showing left and right sides of work]in 1991, i wrote: on the left is a street map of liverpool, a metallic relief resembling a printing template.. i am planning to emboss each corresponding plate onto the earth coloured tiles, producing a positive and negative. the tiles mirror a landscape as seen from above, as in aerial photography. it comments on man's mark on the environment, showing the unique imprint of a city centre, as roads are determined by geological and sociological factors.