'Transcribed [Repetition]'

Cabinets in the doorway of 6 Triumph Rd, Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham, which I've just completed setting up.

The exhibition copy for the display states:

'Drawing, Walking, the 'Edgeland'.

Lines on a surface, mimicking the natural, highlighting the man made, concerned with our yesterdays, informing today, the micro and the macro in the environment we no longer see.

Gears Phenomenological approaches, and haptic marks let the eye wander, whilst interrogating and elucidating on our notions of reality'.

'Mass [Transcribed]- 1 & 2'

I've been working of sculptures ready for the latest Backlit Gallery group show. These are made using found objects as a template along with working into the surface of the forms and are around 1m in height.
The pieces allude to landscape, to past and present, and have a strong haptic quality to the surface.
The exhibition at Backlit runs from the 6th - 21st Feb 2016 - Thursday to Sunday only each week, 12 noon until 5pm. 

'Catching Words[Prelude 1850]2015'© N.Gear

The 'Catching Words' project alluding to the process of Wordsworth pacing his top terrace at Dove Cottage,Grasmere,has taken place at the Wordsworth Museum,Grasmere.
Search 'Catching Words' on YouTube to see the interview I did about the installation; the materials used & the reasons the work came about.

https://youtu.be/8Vp9RRtPj7g

'Catching Words' © 2015 N.Gear

My 'Catching Words' project is ready to go to the Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere, The Lakes, UK and will run from the 19th Sept to the 3rd October 2015.

It considers William Wordsworth's process of pacing the top terrace at Dove Cottage whilst he composed his poetry, trying to find the 'right words'

'Two Sided Form'© 2015 N.Gear

Continuing with the theme of casting from found debris this two sided form has been completed.
It's finished with walnut crystals similar to the process Henry Moore undertook with his plaster sculptures.
This line of enquiry builds on my recent drawing work 'Edgelands', links to research on Wittgenstein, and alludes to the Coxmoor landscape that I've stepped through.

Inspired by the exhibition currently at Yorkshire Sculpture Park of the work of Henry Moore particularly his use of plaster I've been completing casts of found debris, collected whilst walking. It continues to consider what we don't (or choose not to) see in the environment and alludes to an archeological find; a sense of the past revealed in our present.

'Catching Words' proposal for A.L.L 2015

Whilst walking I find that thoughts and ideas meander through my mind and then in the next moment can come into sharp focus, even whilst observing the physical environment I'm in.
This process of moving from one reality to another is one which Wordsworth would have recognised as vital to his own creative process, and the act of 'catching words' for his poems.
My proposal for Art language Location 2015' gives the viewer a way of exploring these notions of reality and creativity that Wordsworth would have experienced.