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.”
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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”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Laying New Ground
Work has finally started on Byway 745 to stop it becoming more eroded and to allow access to it for a wider cross section of users. The County Council have subcontracted the work to a company who specialise in conservation groundwork. The three workers are setting about installing what is known as a French drainContinue reading “Laying New Ground”
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.”
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.”
Liz Clifford 