Over the past year I have been working on a series of small assemblages made from plastic waste collected during my daily walk in the Hampshire countryside. These ‘bouquets’ and ‘floral tributes’ were started during my residency at Chapel Arts Studios, discussed in my previous post. The experience of the daily drive on busy AContinue reading “Memorials to lost trees.”
Category Archives: work in progress
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.”
Observations of Brutality and Resilience.
Over recent months I’ve been working with my own photographs and drawings of barbed wire fencing stapled to trees to develop a body of work that begins to express links between the abuse of nature and our bodies. Observing the resilience of these trees that grow around the brutally stapled wire, and seeing forms reminiscentContinue reading “Observations of Brutality and Resilience.”
Under the Surface.
During March and April this year I was able to witness and record a major human intervention on Byway 745. The rutted chalk track was being ‘repaired’ to allow more even public access to users of this Byway Open to All Traffic. I have hours of video footage and many still photographs that need toContinue reading “Under the Surface.”
Learning new skills.
I have been collecting images of vehicle tyre tracks from Byway 745 for some time, building up a series of mono prints made by lying thin paper directly into muddy ruts. Once the mud is dry the image becomes rather faint and indecipherable, so I’ve been puzzling over how to make something stronger, and alsoContinue reading “Learning new skills.”
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”
Making It Public.
It is time to show new work and a great way to do that is in a group exhibition. The opportunity has arisen as part of the Fine Art MA I am doing at UCA Farnham. Having had to postpone a previous show last year because of the pandemic, the group set about planning anotherContinue reading “Making It Public.”
Viewpoint – point of view.
I have recently been reading artist, writer and film maker Hito Steyerl’s essay In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective in which she charts the rise of linear perspective as the dominant tradition in Western Art and the triumph of today’s ubiquitous aerial view. The view from above has become a norm ofContinue reading “Viewpoint – point of view.”
Drawings, photographs and litter.
Drawing from observation is part of my art practice. This is undertaken in the landscape as well as in the studio. Drawings are made from natural forms and from the found objects that appear in my three dimensional work. I am currently experimenting with ways of reconciling this 2D part of my practice with theContinue reading “Drawings, photographs and litter.”
Liz Clifford 