Earlier in the year I answered an open call and had my proposal accepted for a site specific work as part of an artist-run competition run by Little Forest Land Art. The site is one of ancient woodland, on the edge of a meadow, on what was once a pig farm. A woodland path hasContinue reading “The Spring/Summer iteration.”
Category Archives: Artwork
Assemblage.
Over the past year I have been working on a series of sculptures that beg to be experienced as a group. Each individual employs assemblage techniques with salvaged materials ranging from discarded domestic fabric to brick, steel and fencing wire. These works are assemblages in a number of senses. Firstly, in the bricolage tradition ofContinue reading “Assemblage.”
On Thin Soil
I’ve recently had the opportunity to bring a piece of work together that has been in gestation for nearly two and a half years. In May 2020, in Covid lockdown, I noticed beech seedlings growing in the mud of a rural track normally driven on by off-roaders. Knowing that the vehicles would soon be backContinue reading “On Thin Soil”
Presenting the Outcomes.
I’ve now had a fantastic opportunity to bring the various strands of work from my time on Byway 745 together in an installation. Byway 745 Observatory is the Final Major Project of my MA at UCA Farnham, and I have had access to a large studio space over the past month in which to figureContinue reading “Presenting the Outcomes.”
Working with Video
I have the exciting prospect of an opportunity for screening my video works alongside sculpture, print and drawing in my presentation for the final major project of my MA. I have three pieces to present, two videos and a slideshow, all of which are made from my observations on Byway 745. One of those startedContinue reading “Working with Video”
Non-gallery Space
Having shown work in an empty West End shop last month, another opportunity to work with a non-gallery venue has just come to fruition. Maverick Projects in South London manage a series of buildings as locations for art events, including Safehouse 1 in Peckham. This is a stripped down, late Victorian terraced house, wedged betweenContinue reading “Non-gallery Space”
Among the Beech Roots.
Over the past month I have been completing a large scale drawing project started in Autumn 2020 from studies made in the landscape of the line of beech trees bordering Byway 745 and the litter collected from beneath them. The drawing measures 150 x 700 cm and had to be worked on in sections onContinue reading “Among the Beech Roots.”
The view from below.
Since June last year I have been making video footage of the canopy of trees that overhangs Byway 745 at the point where I have been observing a variety of phenomena. The plan is to assemble a loop that takes the viewer through the year’s changes. Excitingly, spring has sprung and the trees are leafingContinue reading “The view from below.”
Weaving in the litter
I have a large scale work in progress – a 7 metre long drawing using the line of beech trees that borders Byway 745. I’m in the planning stages of further work on this drawing, considering the various options for weaving imagery of the litter I’ve been collecting from the track beneath the line ofContinue reading “Weaving in the litter”
Becoming Geology
The group exhibition, Beyond the Boundaries, discussed in my previous post, is now fully launched and showing @undertowprojects on Instagram until 21st March 2021. The exhibition is an entirely online affair. However, the piece I have made for it will stand in my garden for the duration. The work was originally proposed for an urbanContinue reading “Becoming Geology”
Liz Clifford 