Textile Projections
What's difficult to see in these video's is what actually happens just as the eye sees, which is a textile painting with a projection of the same thing falling upon it - the eye sometimes sees the static textile and sometimes the moving projection which confuses the eye as it switches back and forth. It's actually in that liminal space that the piece works within.
CentreSpace Bristol Exhibition 2017, 5 Textile Projections
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The image below shows the textile paintings on the wall prior to projection of moving images on to them
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The video below enables you to see what an exhibition of these kind of works is like for an audience
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Exhibition at Centrespace Gallery 2014 'The Birds' Textile Installation
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The Birds: some years ago I went to the Somerset wetlands to capture the murmuration of starlings that happens yearly in Winter. The difficulty in this work is that as it was to be a painting it meant that the camera could not be moved to follow the birds. WHich meant I had to go back several times until the birds actually came - but also we picked a spot in the sky where they would come again and again. Here's the result
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Exhibition at Centrespace Gallery 2017 'Cradelbridge' Installation
Cradlebridge uses a variety of strategies - one of which is textile projection.
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VENICE 2022 'The Aspen Papers'
The Aspen Papers is a short dramatic piece intended to be projected into a Gauze 'Cave' (as mentioned in re:staging photography this is a 10 foot x 10 foot cube draped with gauzes or muslin, where in this case the video is projected into the same space that members of the audience go into and experience the work as an immersive space.' |
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