I’ve been building on my site specific project with found detritus as presented in my blogpost of January 4th. The latest intervention has involved taking hand built gabion baskets into the landscape and filling them with detritus from the two Rubbish Cairns I have been monitoring on Byway 745 since last summer. Whilst lockdown againstContinue reading “Intervention: Fieldwork.”
Author Archives: lizcliffordart
Under(cover)
Debate around the politics of litter explored by Rosemary Shirley in her essay Keeping Britain Tidy: Litter and Anxiety 2016 have prompted me to take a closer look at my own reactions to what I find on my walk. My submission to the Instagram Open Call Under(cover) takes photographs of discarded tissues from the firstContinue reading “Under(cover)”
Traces of the Technosphere.
My submission to the group show Unsettling Focus, to be held at The James Hockey Gallery, UCA, Farnham, has finally come together. The work consists of several elements – plaster and steel sculpture, digital print and video. The work presents a future for the plastic detritus I collect on a 4000 year old track inContinue reading “Traces of the Technosphere.”
Substrata
This work consists of a stack of hand built gabion baskets filled with collected materials from the landscape. The largest layer is chalk, then flint, brick, concrete, plastic and metal objects, earth and moss. The chalk layer represents the vastness of geological time, and the work references human impact on the fossil record as wellContinue reading “Substrata”
Traces from the Technosphere. Walking the track.
Circular Walk 2019 screen print. Liz Clifford. This is the starting point for the various strands of my current work. A circular walk I’ve been making almost daily for 24 years. In the screen print below, the orange line represents the trace of the walk across the contours of the landscape. That landscape is in theContinue reading “Traces from the Technosphere. Walking the track.”
Gordon Cheung’s “Home” at Edel Assanti.
In this show of paintings and an installation, it was the installation that I was most drawn to. The work, titled “Home”, was originally shown in Hong Kong in 2018 and comprises eighteen screens hanging perpendicular to each other. The screens are lattices made of bamboo and newspaper. In this gallery they are suspended partlyContinue reading “Gordon Cheung’s “Home” at Edel Assanti.”
The World After.
Gallery exterior with window installation for The World After by David Blandy.Photo by Liz Clifford I was really lucky to catch this fabulous show before it closed recently. “The World After” by David Blandy at Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. The project was part of a larger initiative, New Geographies, a three year partnership acrossContinue reading “The World After.”
Intervention: Rubbish Cairns.
Throughout the Autumn I have continued adding to the collections of plastic waste as I walk on Byway 745 – the Rubbish Cairns I started building in August 2019. Torrential rain has scoured the chalk ruts which are repeatedly attacked by off-road vehicles. Churned up mud and fallen leaves then re-cover the chalk. Detritus isContinue reading “Intervention: Rubbish Cairns.”
Fossils at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
The UCA MA Fine Art group made a visit to Oxford this week. First port of call was the Museum of Natural History where I was bowled over by the vast collection of fossils. There was time to make drawings and have a really good look at the exhibits. What I found immediately striking wasContinue reading “Fossils at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.”
Fictional Fossil
Ford Fossil 2019. Plaster. Liz Clifford I have been working with plaster rather than chalk recently to move my embedded objects forward. Up to now I have embedded the actual objects in the material but the work pictured above is made entirely from plaster. I hope this new approach will enable me to work onContinue reading “Fictional Fossil”
Liz Clifford 