ArtShot
at U:1
13 -14 October 2008 11am - 7pm
Private View - Saturday 12 October, 6pm - 9pm
SCULPTURE - PHOTOGRAPHY - SOUND ART - VIDEO
Rachel Cornish
Carol Harvey
Buff Lancaster-Thomas
Stormsmith Nomi
Nic Thompson
U:1 Studios, Oxford Avenue, Peverell, Plymouth PL3 4SQ
MAP
'High Tide' (2008) - Video still
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RACHEL
CORNISH
The experience of being conscious of the present, and
the complex relationships between memory, time and space
are fundamental to my work.
‘How Long is Now?’, a playful video piece,
embraces both the simplicity and complexity of something
that we understand through experience, but cannot easily
explain. Times and values may be allocated to events as
a way of organising our lives in a linear fashion, but
the question, ‘When do I experience something happening?’
bears a unique relationship to memory and mental reconstruction.
The video, ‘High Tide’, a response to these
questions, is a new work.
Rachel
Cornish (web)
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CAROL
HARVEY
What
is there in a key?
We keep things or ourselves and others safe by locking doors,
the boundaries between in and out, them and us. This vision
allows for a choice by the individual in the safety of their
own space but what happens when ‘the other’
is in care of the key?
My work concerns the displacement of people through no choice
of their own, the complex emotions that govern our sense
of identity and the defences the mind has to make in order
to adjust to a system in which the body is governed
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BUFF
LANCASTER-THOMAS
My
current body of work, “Flowers from Death Row”
has emerged directly from my friendship with a convicted
man who has lived on death row, in the USA, for 10 years,
and with whom I have been corresponding for some time.
We speak occasionally by ‘phone and I have also
visited him in prison. Art is his main avenue of creative
expression, despite the limitation on his work being the
restriction of materials to HB pencils and ballpoint pens,
in his own words:
“I
discovered a reason to live in the place I was sent to
die”.
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As an issues led art practitioner, I find the notion of
capital punishment particularly problematic. Through my
own art and a creative collaboration with my friend, I
hope to reach a meaningful resolution of this contentious
issue. Many artists have dealt with death in their work,
but the idea of the death penalty in the 21st Century,
to me, seems a barbaric anachronism.
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STORMSMITH
NOMI
I
make dynamic and meditative pieces using a palette of everyday
modified sounds. Currently I am focusing on the disintegration
of the idea of ‘self’ as separate, whilst moving
towards the idea of ‘self’ as deeply interrelated
and connected with all life. I am aiming to distil the qualities
of disintegration preceding rebirth and the crumbling of
old concepts of identity. The work traces eruptions of grief
at the loss the known, and fears in embracing the unknown.
Surrender reverberates with both terror and joy.
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NIC
THOMPSON
If
it can be fixed, defined or held in some sort of conceptual
grid, then this is not my work. If by reaching to grasp
its slippery tail, it gets away, you may say that you have
caught a glimpse of what I am doing. That is not my work
either.
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