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Surveying Landscape

Thompson, Brian (2012) Surveying Landscape. , Otter Gallery, Chichester, UK.

Item Type: Show/Exhibition

Abstract

This was an exhibition curated by jointly by the University of Chichester and the Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel Sculpture, UK.

The Otter Gallery has a collection C20 British artists including Henry Moore, Patrick Heron and Graham Sutherland. The exhibition was a 2 person exhibition with the American sculptor, James A Wade Jr. My contribution was 24 sculptures and 6 digital prints. The exhibition was a key dissemination point of a period of fine art practice research; extending previous work based on journeys in Landscape. The research addressed new approaches in relation to scale and materials in sculpture revealing the methodological approaches in engagement with actual landscapes in association with the WALK research group at the University of Sunderland.

A new direction was taken in the way the journeys by foot were mapped and recorded by date and companions. Routes from satellite images and maps provided information for templates cut by computer aided design and manufacture. Dissemination was via:

1. The work itself exhibited in: The Otter Gallery, University of Chichester 7.12.2012 – 27.1.2013.

2. An associated 40 page publication “Surveying Landscape” with a foreword by Pam Brown Director of the Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel Sculpture and an essay by Sam Cornish. The publication is a full catalogue of the exhibition and contains full colour images of all my exhibited work.

3. The sculpture “River Wear (Blue Glass)” was exhibited at the ICA Gallery London as part of the City of Sunderland’s Launch of its creative Industries strategy October 2010.

The supporting portfolio contains images and details of all work exhibited and the associated Publication.

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Image (PNG) (High Street from Thirlmere, Charred Oak, 13.5x5x1.5)
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Image (PNG) (River Wear Blue Glass, Cast Glass, 7x7x3.5)
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Image (PNG) (Bowsey, Cast Iron, 5x5.5x2)
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Image (PNG) (MOSS to Grove, Cast Iron, 6.5x6.5x1.5)
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Image (PNG) (Forest Corner, Porcelain, 4.5x5.5x1.5)
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Image (PNG) (To Crumma, Porcelain, 5x5.5x1.5)
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Image (PNG) (Top Gate Group, Cast Iron)
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Image (PNG) (River Wear Grey Glass, Cast Glass, 7x7.5x2.5)
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Image (PNG) (River Severn at Ironbridge, Cast Iron, 14.5x5x2)
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Image (PNG) (By the Derwent at Cockermouth, Float Glass, 3.5x5.5x1.5)
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Image (PNG) (Meeting of the Waters, Cast Iron, 7x7.5x1.5)
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Image (PNG) (On the Narrow Road, Porcelain)
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Image (PNG) (PRINTs Helvellyn by Striding edge, 30x22)
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Image (PNG) (PRINT High Street from Petterdale 16x12)
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Image (PNG) (PRINT Dalton Walk to Top Gate 16x12)
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Image (PNG) (PRINT Yudaki Falls, 16x12)
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PDF (Invitation to Surveying Landscape Exhibition)
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More Information

Depositing User: Arabella Plouviez

Identifiers

Item ID: 3334
ISBN: 978-0-9558949-2-3
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/3334
Official URL: http://www.chi.ac.uk/otter-gallery

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Catalogue record

Date Deposited: 24 Jan 2013 11:38
Last Modified: 02 Jul 2019 09:07

Contributors

Author: Brian Thompson

University Divisions

Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries > School of Art and Design

Subjects

Glass and Ceramics > Glass
Fine Art > Sculpture

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