Chris Drury

I realise this artist has been added before but thought this work was very different from the other.

This work is more concerned with a kind of mapping...after a visit to Antartica Drury 'mapped' or documented 'data' using echogram technology.

'The ice here is over 4 km. deep and the underlying Earth is hot, so a lake has formed. each line of biro represents over a hundred years in time and accumulation. Antarctica has been covered with ice for around 900,ooo years, which is about the time man has been on the Earth. An echogram, which is a radar image bounced through the ice from an aircraft and imaged in a computer. The image itself can be 20 m. or so long'. An interesting and visual use of data!!!

Part2ism

Something more local!! Keith Hopewell is best known as 'Part 2' or Part2ism by many for pioneering photorealist graffiti in the late eighties and early nineties shown here, in ‘galleries’ around York. He has been slowly re-establishing his art for the last few years. Keith first caught people's attention once again with his cardboard cut out installations. He placed complex geometric type, as long as 30 ft in broad daylight around busy city centre's throughout the world. Never designed as commodity, but many of these works were left in the public domain for people to hijack & Keith was caught on the BBC news & also received editorial in the Times & Independent. “I just wanted to play with people's perception of what this art is about, like the first time I saw graffiti on the New York subway! It was an arthouse of its own, born out of suppression & creating something from nothing. It was about expanding your own space & taking things to their limits".His work concentrates on disposable graffiti interventions which are constructed from discarded pieces of cardboard repossessed from the streets. They are designed to modify our city environments & daytime pedestrian streets.

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Roger Hiorns ,Seizure,Art Angel

I went to see this intervention last year and the memory of it has stayed with me. An Art Angel project just outside Elephant and Castle....reuses a very rundown area of London and intervenes briefly. On reflection this module highlights how a project like this can generate interest in a community. The hoards of people flocking to see this work would not.....I'm sure, normally travel through this neglected but colourful area. I've included a link below for more details of the project.

http://www.artangel.org.uk/pages/present/present0808_seizure.htm