Each toward the other, 2019 (exhibition)
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Each Toward the Other, a three person show with Nicola Ellis and Joe Hancock exploring spatial and visual degrees of freedom by leaning, handing, dwelling, pinning, resting and sitting. 20.7.2019 – 9.11.2019 Bury Sculpture Centre, Moss St, Bury BL9 0DR.
Pouring down, Drawing out ~ was cast on site at Bury sculpture Centre and responds to a section of the gallery [formally the library] where there used to be a spiral staircase to access the library archives below. Down, through and back again was a site-specific work for Bury Sculpture Centre. Sited in a part of the building that was originally the library, the work responds to a section of flooring in the gallery where a spiral staircase led down to the archive. The individually placed pieces of copper function as an act of repair and reflection on the spaces we inhabit. Finding the edges is a frottage of the section of flooring in the gallery beneath Down, through and back again. Left handling ~ is a development of a series of works in which I use a candle and its residue – soot – as my tools. Within these ‘sooted’ works materials and surfaces lean or rest upon each other for support. In Left handling, a small piece of frosted glass that measures the span of the artists hand is partially covered in a later of soot, it’s edges show the marks where the thumb and smallest finger held it. During the exhibiiton, insects were attracted to and rested upon the sooted surface, leaving behind traces of thier movement. Propositions II ~ . Two pieces of brass sheet and steel bar are covered in a thin layer of soot, each piece of steel both leans upon and props up the thin brass sheet.
Image credit: Jules Lister |
