Kim
2017
marble, xerographic print, rock with algae and concretion
29.5x23x1 cm
From the exhibition, Stollen (All I Want For Christmas), Test Space Spike Island, Bristol, UK
5 November 2017
18 August 2017
DriftAdrift
DriftAdrift, Relaxed
2017
Tyre strips (flotsam, jetsam, lagan), sofa
Dimensions variable
2 July 2017
William Dyce, Pegwell Bay updated.
The Dyce family is fully clothed. The women shawled and heavy skirted, gather
souvenirs and shells from the beach at low tide. Beyond them, the lowish chalk cliffs stand
over the receded tide, and above the whole scene, the distant tail of Donati's comet. William Dyce's painting of Pegwell Bay[i]
depicts an activity unchanged, and the bay itself, with its cliffs and strata, sweeps
to the west towards Sandwich and the Stour Estuary. Little moved over time, a site of ancient and
recent disembarkation. Hoverlloyd (later
Hoverspeed) operated cross channel services from Ramsgate to Calais up until
1982; the modern archaeologist or dog walker can explore the remains of the
hoverport. White markings are still
visible where the ramps enter the bay, and in the delineated parking zones partially
covered in scrub. The SR.N4 hovercraft, cossetted
in a great heavy skirt like the ladies in Dyce's painting, was powered by four
Bristol Proteus engines, one of which is preserved at Bristol M Shed museum. These powerful but thirsty engines propelled
the craft forward and also inflated the large black skirt that acts as a cushion
between hull and water and land.
I slipped into the sea below the West Cliff
beside the harbour, some children were playing on the sand, occasionally
running and paddling up to their wastes.
The water takes on a milkiness, chalk leaching a fine sediment that
drifts with the current until a point some twenty yards out where it meets deeper
bluer water, the whole mixing in swirls of khaki, white and cyan. May sea temperatures are around ten or eleven
degrees Celsius.
In his account of his father, Life,[ii]
Edmund Gosse writes. At
the head of the procession, like Apollo conducting the Muses, my father strides
ahead in an immense wide-awake, loose black coat and trousers, and fisherman's
boots, with a collecting basket in one hand, a staff or prod in the other. Then follow gentlemen of every age, all
seeming spectacled and old to me, and many ladies in the balloon costume of
1855, with shawls falling to a point from between their shoulders to the edge
of their flounced petticoats, each wearing a mushroom hat with streamers.
[i] William Dyce (1858-60) Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858. Oil on canvas. Tate Britain
[ii] The Life of Philip Henry Gosse (1890). Philip Henry Gosse was a pioneer of marine
science and a populariser of natural history.
27 June 2017
19 June 2017
The Dream of the Mythical Room (studio June 2017)
The Dream of the Mythical Room
Xerographic print, frame, clamp, dowel, fixings
H. 105cm/dimensions variable
The Varne
Oil on canvas
40x30cm
Untitled (Verge)
Oil on canvas
40x30cm
6 May 2017
May Day May Day All Works Will Be Shown
Test Space
May Day May Day All Works Will Be
Shown
u MAP: Z3
An open call photocopy show where all works
responding to the title are shown, launched as part of Spike Island Open 2017.
May Day May Day All Works Will Be Shown is
an Open Call Out Photocopy Show of work from around a hundred national and
international artists, writers, performers, creative and noncreatives. In these
perilous times the exhibition title focuses on the ideals of democracy and
solidarity; as the title proclaims, all the submissions are shown without the
hierarchy of a selection process. The ubiquitous photocopier is the champion of
countless zines, home publications, pamphlets and the world of mass
reproduction. This exhibition celebrates the birth of the xerographic printer
in the last century and its continuing role as a voice in the digital age.
The exhibition runs from 29th April to 14th
May, forming a main part of the Spike Island Open Weekend 2017 programme.
Preview: Friday 29th April 6pm till 9pm.
Test Space
Spike Island
133, Cumberland Road
Bristol
BS1 6UX
Curated by: Mark Samsworth, Helen Grant, Julian Claxton
23 April 2017
Skye 2
Test Space, Spike Island 11 - 26 March 2017
In January
2017, Test Space International and Volkskammer, Berlin presented Operation
Skye, a series of works, performances and interactions which took place at
Kilmuir, North Skye, Scotland.
Operation
Skye takes its
title from the 1944 code name for the World War II radio deception component of
Fortitude North, which simulated radio traffic between fictional army units. In
this exhibition, the artists chose to respond – or not – to this history,
taking into account the vagaries of the weather, geology, morphology and myths
associated with this westerly location.
Skye
2 forms the
second part of this exhibition, relocating these works (or what remains of
them) to the more traditional gallery environment of Spike Island’s Test Space.
Here they are stripped of their original context, where the unpredictable
weather and variable light levels dominated the works to the extent that some
were impossible to install, and others were damaged or destroyed.
The exhibition
includes work by artists Julian Claxton, Tom Goddard, Helen Grant, Will
Kendrick, Jo Lathwood, Milo Newman and Natasha Rosling, Mark Samsworth, Solveig
Settemsdal
As the rain lashed down the gentle
curves of the dish uncurled into a flat untuned disc. The high wind took the machine and it flew
across the field at a rate of knots, both urgent an immaculate. Single channel, sound, configured for 48 seconds during exhibition.
https://topfloortestspace.wordpress.com/2017-2/skye-2/
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)