A few of many photographs taken from the Gasworks in Whitby. The site is filled with the most random industrial looking structures and vehicles; Large diggers, derelict boats and even a hovercraft just to name a few. The site sits between a river and a railway track presumably so barges and trains could transport coal to the gasworks in order for it to produce gas. The Gasworks is obviously out of use now as coal-gas is no longer produced in the UK. Although I have always been aware of this place i know little about it and am currently trying to gather information and old photos as a form of data. The randomness and intrigue of the site is what initially drew me into visiting.      

Richard Wentworth

Hi all...again!



I have found an artist who I thought creates the sort of photographs that I'm wanting to base my Outside the White Cube on; objects that belong to someone or belong inside that have been placed outside in an "un-natural" environment...basically objects that you wouldn't really see in this type of scenario; giving these objects a different meaning.

This artist is Richard Wentworth, and he describes his work better than I can, so here is a quote of his which I think best explains his photographs:

'I have always been very puzzled about the raw and the cooked. Am I sitting on a tree or is this assemblage of wood a chair? What draws me in is how things are convertible and how humans give meaning. There is something about mutability that I have always been attracted to. I mean, what is a television that is sitting on the roadside miles away from the electricity supply? Is it still a television? It's something to do with being dead yet alive. It's the small human acts that reach out to my way of seeing. Without someone being able to raise a brick and deposit the right amount of mortar then there would be no walls. That's all a wall is really - a lot of brick raising. A little human act multiplied. A half brick raised, though, can be a murder weapon.

My work is also attached to the limits of purposefulness. If something is discarded you can read that and see that it's been rejected. To me, there is something terribly beautiful in that. Formal things are incredibly important to me. I always see the crack in the glass before I see the window. I have always had this "sickness". I am interested in the aberrant.'

Wentworth

Katie =)

just deriving via the web and found theis old photo of york. Looking into bootham bar and found it of interest. think its a lovely photo.

JR-
"The hippest street artist since banksy"
JR is a 25 year old french artist working out of Paris. He is a self described "photograffeur", a hyprid of Photographer and graffiti artist.

JR has made his mark around the world turning unconventional spaces into large scale photograph galleries, for example train carriages in Kibera, Africa, or the
security wall in Isreal. A lot of his
work helps the communties he works in, for example in africa by pasting hhis photographs on slum roofs he in turn made them water proof.

Artist: Zarina Bhimji

This is one of a collection of five stills and a short film Zarina Bhimji exhibited for the turner prize in 2oo7 . These images were collected over a period of many months when bhimji spent days travelling the trade and imigration routes in Uganda, talking to people from all the places she came into contact with. Uganda has a colourful history partly from suffering from Idi Amin and the migration and uproar that this causes. Ifound it particularly relevent her as she closely anlysis the movement and pathways of people and place.

Title: Shadows and Disturbances
Date: 2007
Media: Ilfochrome Ciba Classic Print
Dimensions: 1270mm x 1600mm
Additional info: Aluminium mount, TrueVue Museum Acrylic and frame (2007)

Constant

Constant, New Babylon: (Sector Construction), 1959