For the past few weeks, I have been thinking about and making (I use the term very loosely here) an installation for the
Kunstpodium T exhibition in Nottingham. This is a group exhibition and is part of the Aprrentice/Master Project which paired together emerging artists from colleges all over Europe with 'Master' artists in order to hold a series of exhibitions.
I will be exhibiting at the
Backlit Gallery in Nottingham, UK with two Dutch artists Gerrit Bruins and Michelle Verscheijden, a Belgian artist, Bram Demunter, and our Master artist,
Geoff Diego Litherland. Our exhibition is called 5 Points of Connection and opens on March 5th.
The installation uses as its starting point Nottingham city and my recollections as a child of Nottngham Forest winning the European Cup in 1978. I make connections from there as far as Tilburg, whose football team my grandfather, (the splendidly named Fred Fitton), coached from 1948 - 50. Along the way I got to know a lot more about him and also a little bit more about how I like to make work as this was the first sizeable chunk of work I have done without a tutor peering over my shoulder.
I didn't make any prints but did employ a commercial printer and used repetition throughout. Altogether there are 6 pieces:-
an altered analogue photograph, reproduced 250 times and screwed into paper balls
a handwritten account from Wikipedia of Maradona's 1986 'Hand of God' goal, reproduced on red paper 250 times and screwed into paper balls
a red wall, composed of 2000+ red cards
25 different digitally altered analogue photographs of my grandfather with Longa, the Tilburg team he coached
a photograph of goal posts from my home town of Kilmacthomas, 2015
and
a sound piece which you can listen to
here or the link is here:-
I will of course be posting images from the show itself, which, now that the work is underway, I'm really looking forward to.
