We have recently returned from this residency with the National Trust, met some lovely folk (four hundred plus visitors) and put together this short film which we hope captures some spirit of time and place…
The poem found, with the impromptu reading in the film by actor Clive Woodward, is taken from Killick (see earlier blog posting).
The National Trust have agreed our residency at this site for 8-14 May 2020
at the Former Paraffin Store, St Anthony Head, Roseland, Cornwall:
I have a sense of reaching the final stage of this project, with fifteen sculptural objects made, fifteen short films completed and now a poetry pamphlet, with fifteen poems, each poem having fifteen lines. (The number fifteen relates to the number of bezants, which appear in Cornish heraldry).
I have cut the paper, printed one set of pages and sewn up the first pamphlet. Please have a look at my earlier research notes on the Killick project. Perhaps I just need to give the pamphlet one last look…
A return to wire mesh and stone, shown in the photograph below (see earlier blogs) – possibilities as art object(s) arising from the juxtaposition of the materials leading to thoughts to with place, defence, containment, protection, scale and scope. I like the rust coloured leaf and the rust on the wire mesh…
Two boughs must have broken off in the wind/snow which swept the moor some weeks ago and I only noticed them yesterday. After trimming the boughs there were masses of beautiful flowered stems on the ground. I collected these up and left a note by the studio which read “please help yourself”…
I used four branches to make the killick, Camellia (see research notes on Killick)
So, the branches came from Bodmin Moor and the stone was found at Hannafore near Looe. The photographs show some of the making process in the studio, the sculpture in the garden, by the Camelia (top right) and under studio lighting, with shadow. I seem to have left the flowers in place…
Constructed from one of the rocks found in Cornwall on the shore near Looe and magnolia branch trimmings, Magnolia is a new killick.
There are three photographs below, the first documents part of the killick making process, followed by a close up of the rock, with the magnolia tree just visible in the background and a final photograph taken under studio lighting, with shadows (see blog notes on Killick Project).
Thank you for looking…
found and photographed on the shore in Cornwall – now in the studio…
recent stone finds, destined for new work(s) or the continuation of a current project(?) together with snips of galvanised wire, coated in pvc – not a favourite material – I picked these up from the ground and could not seem to throw them away…
in my search for a section of chain link fencing for a project, I came across this wire mesh and stone which resonated for me – the idea of containing and protecting seems to be a feature of my current work…
The studio roof is now fixed and the culprits, 40 rusty screws, is a current work in progress (apparently 95% of the leaks in metal roofs are due to poorly fitted screws, which rust and let water through)
