SENSE OF WORTH /

As we continue pooling together our residency findings for the show. Of yet - the work is stacked, placed, merged, layered in various formats in a variety of ways. This fusion of a multitude of fragments is starting to reflect the dynamic of the collaboration. An exchange between the business/ the workers of the tile factory, of the organisation - Ceramic City Stories- and between the artist. We are adopting the aesthetic of the fragment in an attempt to offer something that has been brought together. To adopt anything suggests to take hold, to merge and to blend together- in this sense- its synonymous with the fusing of myself and Fearn's primary mediums. (The material - Fearn and the immaterial - Amy)  Fit and positioning is so far meaningful in the installation of  the works. As we're lacing the visual aesthetic of our own contemporary art practices with the conditions of the environment, its important for us to consider and stay sensitive to how these stark contras

Place-Specific / Site-Specific  From Lucy Lippard's 'Notes from a Recent Arrival' 1995 , we can learn much about what it means to create work in a place rich in history and current activity. "Any place is diminished when it becomes a mere backdrop for mainstream art. Art that illuminates its location rather than just occupying it is place-specific rather than site-specific..." Here Lippard articulates the importance of sensitivity to the location of art production. There is great significance in a sense of community and identity within this pottery/tile industry - Lippard notes "When history fails a community, memory takes up the task. If history comes from above and outside, from teachers and governments, stories are told from the inside at ground level ." We hope to generate a narrative, a discussion surrounding experience both shared and individual, all drawn back to the place. In merging two worlds for a weekend and exploring the weight

~ Amy

Changing Space - Logistics  Work produced for the exhibition is starting to be shaped by conversation . Extensive discourse around the logistics of gathering (documentary) material led us to having in depth discussion around the preciousness of business and process.   As we are responding to the sense of worthiness surrounding the social value of tile making at the mill and the value of our studio arts practice in public contexts. I intend to create new space within the building that directs attention towards a feeling from the environment . By opening up the contained space, I'm thinking about collective reflection on memories associated with the place. My response to the conditions  in the mill comes from examining in detail the nature of the environment. As my process involves capturing an essence from a moment and reiterating that back to an audience.  I've picked up on a particular feeling in conversation with the resident workers at the mill. One that is roo

CLAYHEAD @ WINKHILL MILL