Date: 2017
The Cuts, 2017 – HD Video loop (15′). This was screened at University Centre, Taunton in Somerset. A lamb being expertly butchered, in reverse. During the Prospectus project “making space in time: an art school without a building” I was within a group of artists, thinking of the body as a collection of organs, the evolutionary process of life forms into multicellular organisms. I was driving past a huge abbattoir to and from work and I was thinking of artists, how they can collaborate, or not. Wondering about my role as an individual as part of a collective and about our project as a provisional organ, a metaphorical placenta, existing for a specific short lived purpose.
Paper Cuts, 2017 – inkjet prints, 3 prints in a set, print size 99 x 85 cm, Edition of 50 (to link to SHOP). Paper Cuts were presented in Falmouth Art Publishing Fair 2017 – FOMO and the Speculative Art School @ UoG Arts Festival, Hardwick Gallery in Gloucester. A series of drawings and text making up 3 ordinance Survey sized “maps” were gleaned from the artist’s notes made during meetings and conversations. They were created with photographs, ink, watercolour, drawing and collage, using a smartphone camera and a desktop printer. Wholly subjective as a document, the work reflects the fragmentary voices in a collective process and the scattering of ideas, as words or images and migrate to and flourish in another person’s mind.
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Credits
Delphine Jones Graphic Design
David Colman Butchery