walk of art (2009)
This archive page documents my contribution to a project in which I worked alongside fellow artists Brenda Jet, Duncan Cameron & Claire Winfield in the landscape of North Devon. We now turned our attention away from the coastal environment on which we had focused before, and inland to the woodlands and open spaces of Exmoor.
Once again we were delighted to be invited to stage our 3 day "open house" event at Broomhill Art in September 2009. Thanks as ever to Rinus and Aniet for their ongoing support.
From the outset I spent my time exclusively documenting the other artists at work, including compiling a series of sound recordings of their activities. However, due to pressure of time and other factors, the planned sound collage was left incomplete, and my contribution to the exhibition consisted entirely of pinhole images & their related documentation. (But I'm still wondering if the sound collage might eventually emerge here one day...)
L-R: Esther Aida, Claire Winfield,
Martin Winfield, Duncan Cameron, Brenda Jet.
pinhole photographs
All of the photographs below were created using my home made pinhole camera and Ilford Delta 100 roll film. The typical exposure time for each outdoor image was around 10-60 seconds. When using such a long exposure, the inevitable subject movement results in a blurred image which is one of the hallmarks of pinhole photograpy. I feel that the use of a medium which records activity over an extended period is an appropriate method to capture the process of people at work.
For the exhibition, I printed a few selected images optically on A1 sheets of Ilford MGIV paper. The resultant prints, which included the film edge and enlarger frame border were roughly stapled to the wall and definitely showed the marks of their creation as artefacts of documentation.
while Claire photographs the photographer.
at the White Hart pub, Exford.
by the River Barle, near Simonsbath
collection cabinet. I make a brief ethereal appearance.
while Hayley looks on
additional info
As we were able to stage the Broomhill show as an event, rather than a static exhibition, all three artists were present throughout to chat to people about their processes. I had a few different pinhole cameras on display and I might even have won a few converts to this low-tech process!
