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.”
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Verge
I recently took advantage of an opportunity open to CAS Associate Artists to takeover the gallery space at St Mary’s Chapel, Andover, Hampshire. I used the Chapel for a week to test and document new work that is concerned with the life of the verge. The journey to and from Andover along the major trunkContinue reading “Verge”
The Spring/Summer iteration.
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Intervention: Rubbish Cairns.
Here is an update from the Byway cairns project. It’s a month on since my last post charting the growth of these collections of salvaged detritus. Autumn is setting in, so leaves have been adding themselves to the cairns, alongside the collected waste. I have been reading Jane Bennett’s “Vibrant Matter” in which she arguesContinue reading “Intervention: Rubbish Cairns.”
Intervention: Rubbish Cairns, Byway 745.
To get round the problem of being too selective with what objects are worthy of taking back to the studio, I’ve decide to work with collecting on site. Since August I have been picking up every piece of plastic waste I find on the Byway and have made 4 distinct piles to the side ofContinue reading “Intervention: Rubbish Cairns, Byway 745.”
Plastic finds on the Byway.
I’ve started recording where I find the plastic fragments used in my work with a simple photograph on my phone. The location and date is logged. An objective record akin to forensic evidence. However, I can’t help myself making an aesthetic choice. I’m drawn to the jewel like quality of colourful vehicle reflectors pressed intoContinue reading “Plastic finds on the Byway.”
Liz Clifford 