I have been tackling the growing pile of 2D work relating to Byway 745 Observatory. This includes contour drawings used to build 3D work, numerous photographs, frottage and observational drawings made on site. A great prompt to get on and use some of this material to create stand alone work has come through an MAContinue reading “Oil spill and tyre scrubs.”
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Working with plants and lights.
How to curate living elements in sculpture is a challenge Danh Vo has risen to in his current show at White Cube, Bermondsey. The visitor is greeted in the space outside the gallery by a pavilion bedecked in makeshift wooden planters while in one room of the interior space plants dominate the display, grow-lights suspendedContinue reading “Working with plants and lights.”
Wheatham Hill.
Having set myself the challenge of making observations in the landscape over the summer, I now return to the problem of curation of that information. I have a collection of rubbings, drawings, photographs, videos and collected materials. I also have graphic information relating to the geology and contours of the site which has been realisedContinue reading “Wheatham Hill.”
Being in the landscape.
I have recently been in, been-with, the landscape through the experience of working on this series of drawings, on location, beneath the remains of a once-laid beech hedge. That laid hedge, now grown out, its stock-proof boundary-making function replaced with wire fencing, is a marker between public and private land. I place myself in theContinue reading “Being in the landscape.”
Among the Trees.
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London. Open Wednesday to Sunday until 31 October 2020. I was hoping to see this exhibition before lockdown but my plans were thwarted. So perhaps I have relished the opportunity to visit it all the more as there are still not many exhibitions open. In addition, I now find myself workingContinue reading “Among the Trees.”
Byway 745 Observatory.
Byway 745 Observatory with direct drawing. I have recently started making daily drawings on a 10 metre section of Byway 745, deciding to home in on, rather than pass through, the space. To establish a kind of “observatory” examining the whole space from the trees at the top of the banks down into the chalkContinue reading “Byway 745 Observatory.”
Isa Melsheimer at KINDL, Berlin.
Isa Melsheimer is a Berlin based artist who explores our human relationship with nature through the study of architectural form intersecting with living matter. The materials she uses range from concrete and ceramic through stitch and gouache to living plants. I visited her exhibition at KINDL, Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (22.3.20 – 5.7.20) onlineContinue reading “Isa Melsheimer at KINDL, Berlin.”
Intervention: Becoming Geology.
Byway 745 with intervention. Photograph by Liz Clifford. Since my excursion in May to collect up rubbish collected over 10 months on this ancient Byway, I have resolved a piece of work that encases the collection within a gabion basket structure. The work consists of four 40cm cubes, three of which are full of theContinue reading “Intervention: Becoming Geology.”
Scholars’ rocks. ‘Elegant Friends for a Lofty Studio’.
Scholars Rock in the Form of a Fantastic Mountain. Taihu limestone. MET Creative Commons Zero An MA trip in lockdown. To replace a planned physical trip to London the group voted to visit galleries virtually in another city. Shanghai was the city we chose. The brief was to find an artwork and respond to it throughContinue reading “Scholars’ rocks. ‘Elegant Friends for a Lofty Studio’.”
Intervention: The Lockdown Effect.
In late April and early May seedlings took root on the muddy track, where normally they would have been mown down by recreational vehicles. Along with what seemed like a more-vigorous-than-normal onset of Spring, these little plants appeared to be benefitting from the lockdown against Covid-19. However, it soon became apparent that drought, along withContinue reading “Intervention: The Lockdown Effect.”
Liz Clifford 