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Aldo Rinaldi and Katherine Daley-Yates discuss northcabin, a programme of site-specific commissions in an unusual venue in Bristol from 2008-09.
The first project I experienced at northcabin was Sovay Berriman's piece Cabin Tactics which took place in the spring of 2008. For the project the artist pasted sections of paper marked with a graphic motif onto the side of one of two disused operating cabins that flank Redcliffe Bridge. I remember the appearance of the work well as Berriman's intervention had significant visual impact (causing viewers to stop and look again at a structure that most take for granted). The work also featured in a review in a-n Magazine, September 2008. Katie Daley-Yates, the project initiator had approached us to inquire into the use of the cabins for site-specific commissions in late 2007 in what appeared to be an adjunct to her ongoing studio work. At the time Katie was an MA student in Fine Art at the University of the West of England. Permission was granted by Harbour Estates with the usual provisos and agreements needed and Berriman's work was quickly followed by a suite of further commissions. All of the projects at northcabin have built on the heritage of the space, and its particular characteristics in a playful, and often hugely polished form. One such example is Chloe Brooks' work...
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