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”
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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.”
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.”
Public Engagement – Winter Sculpture Park.
This ambitious exhibition curated by Gallery No.32 on public access land in Bexley, South East London has now drawn to a close and the work is being removed from the site. The install back in February was challenged by the arrival of Storm Eunice that blew some of the works over even before the showContinue reading “Public Engagement – Winter Sculpture Park.”
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”
Wheatham Hill.
Having set myself the challenge of making observations in the landscape over the summer, I now return to the problem of curation of that information. I have a collection of rubbings, drawings, photographs, videos and collected materials. I also have graphic information relating to the geology and contours of the site which has been realisedContinue reading “Wheatham Hill.”
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”
Liz Clifford 