East Anglia Estate Great Cornard Art Project

As part of rounding up the Anglia Estate, Great Cornard Art Commission I am running a number of assemblies in some of the schools that took part in the project. The first is tomorrow at Pot Kiln School. It will be good to return to see the students and let them know how their ideas informed the final work.

some contacts

http://www.keep-art.co.uk/collab_book.htm

http://www.commissionseast.org.uk/cstudy/louth.html

http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/archive/casestudies/oxbridge/images.php

the last book

I have been looking through the bookartsnewsletter put together by Sarah Bodmin at UWE www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk and thought that some of the work I'm making at the moment is starting to explore notions that are part of the call for submission put out by the National Library of Spain called the last book project - contact Luis Camnitzer at lastbook.madrid@gmail.com for more information

bookhandbook

The day has been spent making the 2D 3D with tubes, wire and fishing line. Looking to expand notions of the book.

At what point does a house become a home?

The work for the Distillery Pond Albany Gardens Estate in Colchester has reached the point where the consultation period has come to its end and the final designs have been created. At what point does a house become a home? The concept for the work came from the idea of carving a home out of the raw material of house. I thought of the idea of discovering home, almost like a form of archaeology and somehow this might mirror the works surroundings and people developing a community within Albany Gardens. This idea is linked to the history of the space. On the site of Albany Gardens there used to be a number of buildings. The function of the majority of the buildings was as a laundry; they included a warehouse and employee housing. The shapes of these buildings have been researched through talking to past employees and previous residents and members of the community who can remember the site before it was developed and researching old maps and photographs. The work will consist of two blocks of granite with roughly cut outside surfaces. The inside surface will be polished and the collected memories of previous residents and members of the community who can remember the site before it was developed will be cut into the surface.