Geodesic Endeavour

Geodesic Endeavours 1 - 4

pen and sticky labels on tracing paper on heavy weight paper

(A series of drawings developed from and as apart of the investigation into 16 Frames, 16 Explorations) 

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Geodesic of geodesy

Geodesy study of shape and area of the earth

Geodesic Line shortest possible line on surface between two points

(Oxford Compact Dictionary and Thesaurus)

16 Frames, 16 Explorations (From There To Here, From Here To There)

Inside

The dimensions of the floor in Room 1 of the Red Gallery in Hull are, 360cm x 455cm. Taking it down to tens from hundreds, and rounding the number to a whole number, the dimensions are, 36 x 46. 3 + 6 = 9, 4 + 6 = 10. 9 x 10 = 90, 10 x 10 = 100. 90cm x 100cm are the dimensions of each of the 16 frames. 

1 gallery space, 16 frames, 16 explorations.

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The frames resemble a space, their dimensions taken from that space, they are born of that space. A frame works as a focussing tool, a view finder if you like; a frame focusses the eye, focusses the mind. I intend to use the frames to focus exploration of my home town.

Outside 

I have recently moved back to my home town, Macclesfield, a mill town that made it's money from the silk industry. Macclesfield is situated to the west of the Peak District and expresses the contrast of old industrial buildings with great natural beauty. 

I have lived the majority of my life in this town, but have been in flux moving between it and Manchester for the last five years. On my return this time I felt I knew little of it, especially it's rurality, and felt a strong urge to explore, to discover and forge a new relationship with an old and familiar, yet surprisingly unknown place.

Mapping

On page 4, grid reference 4,B to 4,C of the Kingston Upon Hull AtoZ, Osborne Street can be found. The Red Gallery is located at number 19, Osborne Street. On page 40, grid reference 4,B to 4,C of the Macclesfield AtoZ you will find Macclesfield golf course - The Hollins. On Friday 21st November, 8 sites where selected in and around this area. The sites where restricted by the use of a frame laid over the top of the map which expressed, in centimetres, the pre-calculated dimensions of the frame (9cm x 10cm). Rural locations were my focus.

Presentation 

In the time between now and the exhibition at Red Gallery I will take the 16 frames out to each of the 8 sites selected. At each of these sites I will measure out the actual gallery space dimensions and within that area create a site-responsive composition using the 16 frames. Each composition will be photographed from the same angle. Once in the gallery space I will recreate the exterior works and photograph them. All photographs will be taken from the same angle, the corner in which I imagine I will be standing once inside the gallery space. 

The 16 photographs will be shown along with the 16 frames. 

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Art as a tool for exploration. 

Artranspennine 08

Hello and welcome to my blog, and this, my first post. 

What follows are images taken during the exploration of a work entitled 5 Forms, 5 Sites, 5 Explorations, which took place from 13/6/08 - 4/7/08 for the exhibition, Artranspennine 08. The work was conceived in collaboration with Simon Wess, under the name WessandBaskeyfield, but for the most part was worked through by myself. Below is an extract from a body of text included in a booklet we created to accompany our endeavours:

'On Friday 13th June, in the hub of Manchester City Centre, our journey begins. from this point we will work for the next four consecutive weeks in four different locations forming four corners of a rectangle surrounding the Greater Manchester area and beyond. we will be working in familiar and unfamiliar surroundings, but viewing all with openness to creative potential. Our path will take us in a clockwise direction moving from North, to East, to South, to West...'

From the beginning of our journey in Manchester City Centre we then worked in Rishton, off Junction 7 of the M65, Torside, the Pennines and Ecton Hill, Macclesfield. 

Works

White Forms, Manchester City Centre, Friday 13th June

Sheet, Rishton, Junction 7 off the M65