Installation and Private View – Salisbury Arts Centre

The final hang last week at Salisbury Arts Centre took just 3 days, which was quite a feat!  Curated by Amanda Wallwork and me, and set up with the help of many other step in stone artists and a team at Salisbury Arts Centre, including Visual Arts Manager Louise.    As part of the installation , Tessa Farmer has re-created a miniature environment in the entrance display case of her skeletal fairies and other creatures interacting and emerging from fossils, some on loan from Somerset Earth Science Centre.  Ralph Hoyte has also re-created his GPS-triggered soundscape ‘ANTICLINE’ to listen to via smartphones around the grounds of the centre.  This can be downloaded via this link.   The artwork includes a selection of indoor and outdoor pieces from our 6 venues last year.

We had our Private Vew on Friday evening (19th Aug).  It was lovely to have so many of the artists together again, many who haven’t seen each other since last year’s project.  Numerous visitors came, expressing their interest and enthusiasm for the subject, our work and the exhibition as a whole.  “An intriguing multi-media, sophisticated exhibition!” We are pleased with the information/artist panels, which really help to tell the story.

Below are some images from our installation and Private View.  Do come and visit the exhibition (runs ’til 24 Sept)!

Fiona Campbell  22/8/16

More on-site experimentation.

Spent a terrific couple of hours in Fairy Cave quarry as the sun went down, this silent and huge sunken world echoing with the calls of roosting crows. Excited to find clear animal tracks along the retreating muddy margins of a large puddle but without my plaster casting equipment this evening so I had to console myself with the experimental collection of lost metal artefacts by using a large magnet to ‘drag’ for treasure. I only collected a series of small pins and nails but I think the techniques has potential and I may rig up a simple wheely mechanism so that I can keep the magnet pointing straight at the ground as I walk the quarry. Made notes about horizon features and considered my mapping ideas and the recording of tree silhouettes before returning to the van, parked amongst the derelict buildings in the dusk.

 

Duncan Cameron  29/6/15

Richard Long in Bristol

Went looking for Richard Long on the Downs in Bristol as part of the upcoming Arnolfini exhibition. Just thought as its stone and stuff could be posted here as being of interest (Ralph Hoyte)

 

Ralph Hoyte  22/6/15

An afternoon of Trials

Yesterday was an afternoon of trying out some of the felt pieces in two of the quarries:

Fairy Cave – trying out the best location for a number of small white balls in Fairy Cave.

The “Island” of choice for “homing” the white balls against the steep wall of the quarry.

A sample small white ball beside some of the new flowers that have grown up since my last visit to Fairy Cave Quarry.

 

Westdown Quarry – trying out felting a huge stone!

The process:

Choosing a possible stone  and   wrapping the stone to make a template

The felting process with supervisor!                  Its hard work keeping track of what is happening!

                     

“Trialing” out the piece on the stone in Westdown Quarry.

 

Suzie Gutteridge  5/6/15

 

Drawings

marks in the stone

strata

Cath Bloomfield  3/6/15

An abundance of stones

An abundance of stones, this time at Westdown Quarry, means there is always somewhere to put things.

Fiona’s sculpture in progress takes a rest

It got quite warm so coats were abandoned…

…a cardigan (and a mollusc?)

My sketching table

These creatures have been here quite a long time,

whereas this is a lot more recent

and this one didn’t need (fell off?) a stone.

Is this really going to work?

And finally, Jack takes a break

Bronwen Bradshaw, 17.4.2015