600 Pieces of Landscape.
Estuary
An installation of 600 small individual units made in the studio, all laid out randomly on three shelves in a studio shed.
Each unit is unique, of varying colour and tone, and represents some visual aspect of the estuary where I live. Some of the pieces are also photographs. The viewer is encouraged to explore what happens when they arrange these units together on one of several square boards provided on a workbench below the shelves; 2, perhaps 3 or more pieces at the same time.
You are encouraged to play your own game as you look at the relationships between different small manifestations or rather motifs of landscape and find ways that the arrangements you create explore your own personal experiences of being in the estuary.
Many thanks to Crane Garden Buildings who collaborate with this project and construct the exhibition spaces.
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A thousand years ago a Carmalite friary was built on the estuary’s banks.
It would have been a busy commercial hub with strong links to two nearby churches and the village just upstream.
Ships of reasonable size would have come and gone bringing all manner of life to the broad expanse of water that at times must have been like a busy lagoon.
There still exists a ruin of the friary gatehouse but for the most part it is a set of undulating banks in the grassy field. When it’s misty though, and at night, you can’t see the normal delineations of the landscape and it becomes easier to imagine what a landscape it might have been.
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It would have been a busy commercial hub with strong links to two nearby churches and the village just upstream.
Ships of reasonable size would have come and gone bringing all manner of life to the broad expanse of water that at times must have been like a busy lagoon.
There still exists a ruin of the friary gatehouse but for the most part it is a set of undulating banks in the grassy field. When it’s misty though, and at night, you can’t see the normal delineations of the landscape and it becomes easier to imagine what a landscape it might have been.
