It’s been awhile since wrote in this blog, Been busy working and family things… Now my son back in school and my daughter started college Friday I can get back to doing work. Met up with a good friend yesterday […]
Well, i attended my first northern carboot this morning, and certainly didnt allow myself enough time. The sellers filled the race course fields and i couldnt believe what was on offer – i could have spent the day there. I […]
Alison Lumb, 'Encounter IX', acrylic on canvas, 2009.
Gavin McClafferty, 'Revolutions (GreenStar7)', 2009. Courtesy: the artist. Installation view
Nicola Dale, 'A Secret Heliotropism'. "As flowers turn towards the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism the past strives to turn towards that sun which is rising in the sky of history" Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History
The work is a visual analogy for the constantly shifting way in which we understand events in history, which changes depending on our position - geographical, political, moral or philosophical. Just as a flower follows the sun round the sky, we too change the meaning of historical events to suit ourselves. Over the course of a year, each of the 320 pages were painstakingly hand cut into a leaf pattern so that the leaves stretch out from the book towards a source of natural sunlight, as though the book itself were growing and changing in the same way history does.
Alan Edwards, 'Kolyma Tales', Acrylic, 2009.
Emily Speed, 'Inhabitant', 2009. Photo: Jens Sundheim.
Tom Ireland, 'Untitled (Neil Armstrong)', polaroid, 2009.
katherine Jones, 't-shirt graphic design'.
Danny Mooney, 'Looking After Everybody', Acrylic on Canvas, 2009.
Peter Heselton, 'Nexus', Mixed Media Drawing on Somerset paper.
Trimester by Helena Eflerova & Kye Wilson
Julie Parker, 'City Shirt', Human hair and thread, 01/09/2009. Photo: Julie Parker.
