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Poniou: narrating changing experience of landscape
The project is a long-term enquiry that started with photographs taken in the aftermath of the 2009 storm and an installation in a river later that year. Through the winter and the spring of 2011/12, I have been visiting and revisiting the stream tracking it from Pennance to the cliffs with my camera, drawing and painting materials… writing… spending time… I set in place a system of rules using mapping, walking and journey as a performative research methodology with which to engage with the materiality of the stream, its unfolding narrative and signpost to cultural complexity.
The river will wind and flow through the ensuing narrative constructed and simultaneously unraveled through performance, layered image and text.
The blog & presentations of the work will try to understand the way the developing images are functioning: can material art practices function as metaphor for fluid processes of change and abruptions inherent in the unfolding of landscapes?
WELD
The Cruelest Day shown as part of WELD, is a performance centred on an installation in the gallery of my family’s Christmas tree. It alludes to worlds beyond the gallery, to narratives that may or may not have happened. Through the gentle humour of the bizarre tree the work becomes to uncanny, perhaps even unsettling. Much of my work invokes memory. It is as much about absence, what we don’t know as about what we do. The audience is left to fill in the gaps in the story…
"DEEP in the basement of The Exchange, Penzance, the exhibition, or project, WELD lived up to its claim of being diverse.
Review The Cornishman 01.03.12:
"Presented by CAZ (Cornwall Autonomous Zone), renowned for its open-ended projects, WELD, curated by Ann Haycock, and assisted by Ian Whitford, co-director of CAZ Project Space, was a weekend show of live art, film and installation by six artists who aim to develop their work in Cornwall.
All the work was linked and informed by Lionel Shriver's Post Birthday World, a book in which the story relates to a single momentary decision made by an individual, resulting in a narrative spread between two parallel universes. [...]
Veronica Vickery startled with her installation The Cruellest Day, in which she set up her family's Christmas tree and, with a mix of humour and the uncanny, came up with a performance which 'alluded to and invoked worlds beyond the basement of the Exchange'. [...]"
Springs Farm
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'It was then that' 2011 (right)
Oil on canvas, triptych (overall 3m x1.2m)
An ongoing project arising from an investigation of derelict homes in West Cornwall.
A series of paintings, an 'estate agency' www.boshomes.co.uk, writing & photographic research...
25/5
25/5 is a piece of work installed in the stream above River Cove at Treveal Farm Zennor, courtesy of the National Trust, in the aftermath of the storm that devestated the area earlier in the year, 2009.
This Weekend...?
This Weekend...? A series of six site-specific installations/events across Cornwall during the Summer of 2009.
BOSarts commisioned artists to undertake a period of research leading to a 'Weekend' - something fleeting, transcient and playful. Artists were asked to respond to researching these sites from the multiple view points of people who use them exploring the imbalances often experienced between residents, tourists, landowners and institutions.
Photo: from 'There Was' Continental Breakfast at Cape Cornwall 26th/27th Sept
Context: nostalgia, poetics or politics?
Seminar, Zennor, Sept 2009
This seminar brought together artists and people from across a range of disciplines to look at what could be said to be an increasingly contested territory: the rural. The seminar explored an approach to practice that sites itself amidst the complexities of context, that concerns itself with questions beyond the specificity of place: change, complexity, systems and power relations.
Photo: Chris Freemantle giving talk entitled 'Soil v2.0'
You can read his paper here.
The Bosigran Project - BOS08
A year-long commissioned residency with the National Trust in West Cornwall based at Bosigran Farm Zennor. The residency led to a collaboration with three other regional artists Rebecca Weeks, Ian Whitford & Andy Whall and a three week programme of site-specific & artist-led events, performances, installations and an associated educational programme. It was the fore-runner of BOSarts.
The artist as cultural agent: DIY (people, places and spaces)
Seminar at Treveal, Bosigran & Zennor, Sept 08 (part of the The Bosigran Project).
click here for a-n article
The 3-day seminar asked questions relating to how artists approach creating contexts for making work, both in terms of places and spaces, but also developing relationships across a range of dialogues and partnerships. Speakersincluded Jenny Savage, Jane Atkinson and Marcus Coates (artists), Paul Bonnington (archaeologist, National Trust) and Dr Caitlin DeSilvey (cultural geographer, University of Exeter).
Photo: Jon Brookes (NT West Cornwall Countryside Manager) chairs the session in a rather unusual setting... in the barn at Bosigran Farm, with Caitlin DeSilvey. Caitlin talked with us about her project curating discarded material remains in a Montana homestead.
'Contextually sited practice in rural areas'
Essay Jan 09: click here to read
The article proposes that practice in a rural area is diverse and inter-texual, and cannot be adequately defined in terms of its rurality or by a juxtaposition with the urban:
'So what is happening in the far flung cliff tops and hills of this land? There is no one thing that could be said to embody practice in a rural area – the processes and outcomes are as diverse as practice in any city. However they do seem to have critical processes, artist strategies in common that are often a response to the challenges of working in peripheral locations… '
This article was commissioned by artcornwall.org
PONDart
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