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art people place: July 2015
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Wednesday, 1 July 2015. Animal Tropes and Enchanted Woodlands. Animals in the woods, The Hunter and the Hunted. I have been researching appearances of animals in folklore and myth. I started doing this alongside my Reliquary Project, to think about what animals represent to us and how this has changed over the centuries, but inevitably this interest has started to influence other projects I'm working on. Becoming animals, Colwick Woods. In Saints and Animals in the Middle Ages. Their current project, Vie...
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art people place: Schrödinger's box, a cat reliquary
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Saturday, 14 March 2015. Schrödinger's box, a cat reliquary. Digital x-ray, 2015. I particularly like this experiment because it was truly collaborative, crossing scientific techniques with art and humanities (which is what archaeology does, really) and something I wouldn't have done if I hadn't been working with Dr Richard Thomas. It came about as a result of conversations and thoughts on what you can and cannot see. I'm making another piece about this. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Click here to ...
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art people place: September 2014
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Monday, 15 September 2014. There have been substantial developments in my work over the summer. A transition, perhaps. My thinking about walking continues, however there has been a re-focussing, taking me from wider views to details; from landscapes to objects. Intervention as part of Refractal, Kings Wood, Corby, Northamptonshire, 2014. Map of the River Nene. One of Miles and Dacombe's own interventions is represented in The Art of Walking exhibition, currently on at The Museum in the Park in Stroud, Gl...
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art people place: Display and burial
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Friday, 6 February 2015. Archaeology is a continuous play between the hidden and the displayed. Sketch for Wrapped Bone,. It is curious that the things that prehistoric people would have displayed are now gone, the act of displaying them making them subject to corrosion by the elements. Whereas the things they buried were then preserved. In order for us to then dig them up and reveal them again, and display them in museums. However, prehistoric people buried their special things. The relic container, the...
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art people place: March 2015
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Saturday, 14 March 2015. Schrödinger's box, a cat reliquary. Digital x-ray, 2015. I particularly like this experiment because it was truly collaborative, crossing scientific techniques with art and humanities (which is what archaeology does, really) and something I wouldn't have done if I hadn't been working with Dr Richard Thomas. It came about as a result of conversations and thoughts on what you can and cannot see. I'm making another piece about this. Wednesday, 4 March 2015. Or, an object that you ca...
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art people place: Surveying Bradgate
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Friday, 17 April 2015. It’s a lonely walk from the car park. I'm looking for the archaeologists, somewhere on the park they've been surveying for a few days. The weather is changeable, one minute warm sun and the next heavy dark clouds and driving rain. As I walk along the path the rain turns to hail stones and it's really chilly. I watch them for a while, mapping this other viewpoint. Mapping and re-mapping, mapping materiality, mapping by metal, stone, wood, soil. The measuring is done for the day, and...
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art people place: December 2014
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Friday, 12 December 2014. I began the project by reading around the subject and considering what it is about the bones of animals that interests me. I’ve been rummaging through the boxes in the collection at the University, sifting my way through like a bone picker looking for something useful,. Intrigued by the curious interior shapes of all sorts of creatures. I will start by just getting to know them. Monday, 1 December 2014. In Residence in the Bone Lab. Contents of a drawer in the Bone Lab. The proj...
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art people place: February 2015
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Friday, 20 February 2015. The past is not behind us but beneath, and the ground we walk on is nothing more than a pit of bones, from which the grass unstinting grows.". Olivia Laing was writing about a place in Sussex, but I thought about her words as I sat on a bench in Bradgate Park. Leicestershire, looking out over this landscape. I'm already thinking about the area in a different way. I watch the people enjoying the winter sunshine, walking the paths and tilting up the slopes, not giving a though...
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art people place: A Reliquary for a Hen Harrier's Wishbone
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Friday, 13 February 2015. A Reliquary for a Hen Harrier's Wishbone. Reliquary for a Hen Harrier's Wishbone,. Acrylic, gold leaf, 2015. I have just completed this reliquary. The box is a plastic specimen box from the Bone Lab; the design is in gold leaf, based on a medieval manuscript illumination. The box measures 5.5cm x 4.3cm, and just under 2cm high. The wishbone of a hen harrier would fit inside exactly. Click here to read the RSPB's appeal for the hen harrier. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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