Part 1 - 2004 and 2013
2221 paintings exhibited together as a complete idea, a multiple and interwoven whole. Each painting is 10cms x 8cms
Numerous drawings A4+A5
16 x 1hour films
Hand bound artist book, edition of 200 containing 2parts of text in
Russian and English, 1part photographs and a 30minute film on CD
Objects and artefacts
Part 2 2013 on-going
At present 191 paintings
10cms x 3cms and 26cms x 21cms
Numerous watercolours and drawings
1 x 30 Minute film with audio
unloud2 publication
Primarily unloud is placed
in context of a long tradition of picture making, aesthetic questions and
particular narrative traditions most prevalent in northern and eastern Europe. Each
of the artworks that make up unloud is a response to a direct
encounter with something; a place, a person, an object, an idea, an emotion or
a question experienced on The Solovki Archipelago in northern
Russia or in relation to its associated narrative histories.
The proposal is to create a space for discussion, a montage, an interwoven whole constructed from numerous elements, the artworks are not
fixed by definition or in any way a direct ‘documentation’ they are created in
order to open up possible narrative directions for others.
so I’m thinking of this as:
the elements of something presented that immediately precede and follow an experience, that points towards its taking place.
the elements of something presented that immediately precede and follow an experience, that points towards its taking place.
How do we account and discuss our inter-related
shared histories today?
Contesting and resisting the pervasive binary documentary narratives unloud asks
how the ‘image’ and the act of ‘making images’ combined with ‘where the image performs’ can offer ways to question, negotiate,
communicate or describe moments of erasure
or remembering in direct
reference to cultural narratives of violence, faith and place.
The artworks
align themselves with unfolding dialogues that are exploring how to (re)
integrate images, actions and words through
art into historically active critical conversations concerning the
representation of our transnational histories, cultural heritage and the
negotiation of how we construct cultural memory for others today.
Zones of activity
unloud
takes particular ‘places’ in northern Russia – Solovki Archipelago and
the Arkhangelsk oblast, places and narratives in Lithuania, Latvia, Poland,
Eastern Siberia and northern Norway to examine how the significance and the
values that landscapes, sites, architecture, human narratives and artefacts
hold for individuals and communities can be utilsed using art as a tool
construct and question social imagination.
The process is continually
driven through extensive on site fieldwork "with my feet on the ground" over the past 11years making film,
drawings, photographs, texts, interviews and exploration in private and
National Archives. The resulting fieldwork
is then developed at the studio in Sheffield, UK. This is intended to extend
the analysis of the ways in which
unloud can initiate translation and serve as a form of transmission and
circulation of ideas and question forms of knowledge between geographical
locations, historical moments and cultural contexts.
