Move

2019
MOVE exhibition, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster

group show with:

Kathy Hinde
Hannah Catherine Jones
Simone Kenyon
Jen Southern
Louise Ann Wilson

Move presents five artists whose work connects with travel, finding our way and routes through places and history.

I presented two works at the MOVE exhibition, Unstable Landscapes and Unruly Pitch. Both works were re-made for the exhibition, with their components taking on new relationships to each other. The exhibition co-incided with the initial date set for the UK exit from the EU, 29th March 2019. The juxtaposition of these two works made in England and Slovenia, combined deep local and historical roots with fleeting movements both unruly and unstable. Although neither work is a comment on Brexit, the presentation of them together reflected a sense of fixity and instability co-existing in their mobilities.

Unstable Landscapes was the outcome of a short residency with BridA in Sempas, Slovenia, in May 2017. The work builds on a practice of tracking and tracing of movement, and a translation of those movements into visual works and develops my interest in the co-production of relational landscapes, through the activities that take place in them. By sharing the activity of filming the work became a portrait of Sempas made by the actions of local people, animals, wind currents, field and footpath networks and ponds.

Unstable Landscapes was commissioned by:
RoR program run by BridA
Mestna Ocina Nova Gorica
Krajevna skupnost Sempas

Unruly Pitch is a collaboration with Anais Moisy, Chris Barker and Chris Speed, and was the outcome of a residency at the Uppies and Downies football game in Workington, West Cumbria. Commissioned by the National Football Museum in 2015.

With thanks to the Peter Scott Gallery, and LICA technical team for installation and construction.

Unstable Landscapes

Unstable Landscapes

This video was filmed with GoPro cameras that were held by children or fixed to their kites at a community event. It picks up the movement of people and bodies as much as kites.

This video was filmed with GoPro cameras that were held by children or fixed to their kites at a community event. It picks up the movement of people and bodies as much as kites.

At the same residency two dogs filmed together with two gopro's on harnesses. The videos are synched so that you see them move in relation to each other.

At the same residency two dogs filmed together with two gopro's on harnesses. The videos are synched so that you see them move in relation to each other.

The top screen is a video shot from a kite that I was flying down in the valley. This kite flew the highest, so is positioned above the others.

The top screen is a video shot from a kite that I was flying down in the valley. This kite flew the highest, so is positioned above the others.

Unruly Pitch in the background, Unstable Landscapes in the foreground.

Unruly Pitch in the background, Unstable Landscapes in the foreground.

The original elements of this work were revisited for this show. The video and map table mirror each other. A bigger video monitor than previous versions.

The original elements of this work were revisited for this show. The video and map table mirror each other. A bigger video monitor than previous versions.

The map was reprinted, and covers the whole plywood table top.

The map was reprinted, and covers the whole plywood table top.

The football was lose on the table, so that people could pick it up and look at the GPS tracks that are embossed over its whole surface.

The football was lose on the table, so that people could pick it up and look at the GPS tracks that are embossed over its whole surface.