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Monday, 9 March 2009

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!!!

Friday, 27 February 2009

Rona Smith


"Arbitrary and accidental incidents act as a starting point for a series of installations and sculptures that explore themes of process and transformation."
"For High Rise, a typical breeze block stands upright slowly absorbing rainwater collected in a discarded wheelbarrow. A distinct water level is visible on the brick's vertical surface, rising and falling depending on changes in the atmosphere."
This stuff is being exhibited in a gallery; I am quite interested in perhaps documenting the same kind of things but outside the white cube. Why not just leave the objects where one finds them?