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2/2/2019

Industry in out of the way places

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​So, I've cleared the decks, and am now looking at new subject matter: evidence of industry in out of the way places. I have always had a fascination with industrial landscapes, having grown up with it in my family.

Back in 2007, I made a series of works based around a scrapyard. It was full of life and interesting colours and shapes. I'm now turning my eye to Cumbria's industrial identity. This is how I'm defining the project.

  • Industry as defined as 'hard work', encompassing domestic, wartime, and children's jobs, as well as more conventional activity such as manufacturing and mining.
  • Site specific - all industry, from all time, but with a deliberate focus on out of the way places, such as above 200m. Mountainous regions such as Cumbria, have attracted certain types of industries and work, and the nature of these is very unique due to the geography of the area.
This is how I'm going to approach the work
  • exploring the use of oil paint in the depiction of landscape and structures.
  • exploring oil pastels, soft pastels, charcoal and graphite as portable media to annotate the anatomy and atmosphere of remote sites.
  • Not so much focusing on the depiction of form, but the work done in creating it. That is to say, the forces that have been involved in the formation of what we see in the landscape, deriving from human hand or machine.
  • I'm very much influenced by Anselm Kiefer, the materials and methods of the artwork re-enacting or acting as metaphors of the original events.
  • I am also influenced by Turner, who was fascinated by monumental forces harnessed, by human machine. He would endure long periods of exposure in mountainous terrain and exposed conditions, as he strove to gain a lived experience of processes, and industries. His 19,000 sketches are a record of this exploration. 

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  • Home
  • Artworks
    • 'Into the interior' textiles
    • Cumbrian Mining paintings
    • People
    • Journey Portraits, 2022
  • Community Art
    • Memoirs of Doris Riley 2024
    • Maryport in Painting, 2023
    • Co-research with Kirkgate communities, 2022
    • story of we 2022
    • Journey Portraits, 2022
    • Light trails 2021
    • In Open Spaces 2021
    • Make it Now
    • Lockdown portraits 2020
    • How a Painting Speaks, 2018
    • These Four Walls 2017
    • Talking Tales 2017
    • Home is where the heart is 2017
    • Dreaming of home 2016
    • Life of a House, 2017
    • Dialogue with E numbers, 2014
    • Hour of the Star
    • Film Archive
  • News
  • ABOUT
    • Bio
    • Exhibitions
    • Experience
    • Reviews