As of July 20th you can see the Black Middens works at Bellingham Heritage Centre.
Show runs until 22nd August.
See link below for details about venue
bellingham heritage centre
Monday, 2 July 2012
Friday, 29 June 2012
further work
After the VARC project finished I carried on working with the material I had gathered. These four paintings came out of the arrangement of place names on an OS map of the area around Black Middens Bastle House. I chose the place names that have colour in them (High Green Manor for example), then created 'landscapes' with them.
This photograph shows the paintings on show in the board room at NetPark, a technology park just outside Durham.
the video installed at VARC
This is how I displayed the digital animation / video I made with all the information I gathered during the project. It is a small coal shed, just room for one person to sit inside and become fully immersed in the work.
The work that came out of the project
After a very long period of neglect (very long!!) I am finally getting round to posting images of the work that has come out of this project. Above is a painting that is directly related to the diagram in the last post.
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
The birth of Black Middens
Well it has been a long time since I last wrote an entry here! The Black Middens Project has come to some sort of a conclusion, but it is by no means over. It was a surprisingly pleasant birthing process, absolutely a labour of love!
Since I last wrote here I have had my head down editing together all the information I gathered on my various forays to Black Middens Bastle House. Phil made a great sound piece with the sounds he captured on site. He also convinced me that I had the right voice for the layer of sound that forms the structure for the whole piece. I wanted to use all the co-ordinates I had noted down for the places that encircled Black Middens on the OS map as a framework for my editing so Phil sat me down in front of a microphone in his sitting room and I went through the list.
Above is the diagram that formed the structure for the piece.
Since I last wrote here I have had my head down editing together all the information I gathered on my various forays to Black Middens Bastle House. Phil made a great sound piece with the sounds he captured on site. He also convinced me that I had the right voice for the layer of sound that forms the structure for the whole piece. I wanted to use all the co-ordinates I had noted down for the places that encircled Black Middens on the OS map as a framework for my editing so Phil sat me down in front of a microphone in his sitting room and I went through the list.
Above is the diagram that formed the structure for the piece.
Sunday, 21 March 2010
more measurements
Myself and Phil Ogg were up at Black Middens on the 12th March.
I took more measurements with the Colour Cue. I'm working on connecting the Bastle House with surrounding places which have colours in their names. Once again I circumnavigated the bastle house this time with a compass. Using calculations I'd made from an OS map, I took colour measurements and photographs in a bid to relate Black Middens to places such as Green Eyes Craggs and Greymare Moss. This information will feed into an animation I plan to make for presentation at the VARC ten year anniversary celebrations (early June at High Green).
Phil (who is a sound artist and musician based in Allenheads) took himself off in search of sounds to record. He made about 40 recordings which was no mean feat, it is very quiet at Black Middens!!
We are going to get together this week and see if we can work with the sounds in relation to the ideas I have for drawings and animations. Working with sound is a new direction for me so time will tell what will develop out of this latest visit to the Tarset area.......
I took more measurements with the Colour Cue. I'm working on connecting the Bastle House with surrounding places which have colours in their names. Once again I circumnavigated the bastle house this time with a compass. Using calculations I'd made from an OS map, I took colour measurements and photographs in a bid to relate Black Middens to places such as Green Eyes Craggs and Greymare Moss. This information will feed into an animation I plan to make for presentation at the VARC ten year anniversary celebrations (early June at High Green).
Phil (who is a sound artist and musician based in Allenheads) took himself off in search of sounds to record. He made about 40 recordings which was no mean feat, it is very quiet at Black Middens!!
We are going to get together this week and see if we can work with the sounds in relation to the ideas I have for drawings and animations. Working with sound is a new direction for me so time will tell what will develop out of this latest visit to the Tarset area.......
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
visit 14th to 16th February
It was crisp up at High Green, the snow had retreated, though soon to reappear, and I made head way with the Black Middens Project. Although it was head down and concentrate on the task in hand for most of the time I did indulge myself with a couple of photos of the landscape I travelled through one early morning.
finally getting out into the field
It felt like a long time since my last visit to Black Middens during the Bastle Weekend, but finally I managed to get over to High Green for a couple of days in mid February. I stayed with Jilly, the current artist in residence at VARC. This was great as not only did we have good conversation about art and life but, I could get started good and early. As with most of my work the task I had set myself over the two days was labourious and time consuming, but not I might add unenjoyable. It is easy to get distracted by the beauty of the vast open landscape, but I had to stay focussed on the task in hand. My mission was to record colours at Black Middens with my great new gizzmo the Pantone Colour Cue.
I decided on a simple approach taking a line of thread around the circumference of the building and measuring at hand-widths apart. This resulted in 187 measurements of colour, which I recorded in my notebook. I now have to decide just what I'm going to do with all this information!
I decided on a simple approach taking a line of thread around the circumference of the building and measuring at hand-widths apart. This resulted in 187 measurements of colour, which I recorded in my notebook. I now have to decide just what I'm going to do with all this information!
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