'[Out Of Play]' N.Gear 2015

My work into the 'Eye' image is complete and is preoccupied with ideas around Phenomenology ,how do we see the world and what's our understanding of reality?
In addition Agnes Varda the Film Director said of her work 'I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see'.

Continuing with collecting material whilst I walk I'm exploring our notions of 'seeing' through the theme of the 'Eye'
The debris is transformed and then taken back to the landscape from where it's been 'found' to be photographed in situ'.
The image includes elements of iconography such as the oak galls, which originally were used to make ink, and allude to the process of mark making. 

'Bound together in step' N.Gear 2014

Two faces; one Wordsworths' original life mask juxtaposed against the 'Face of Coxmoor' - a mask composed of material collected whilst walking Coxmoor Woods, now showing at St Johns' Library in Cambridge until the 31st of October 2014.

If you visit ask the Porter at St Johns' to see the exhibition in the Library, and you'll be let in for free!

St John's College 'New' Library

'Blue Balloon [I wandered lonely as a cloud]' N.Gear © 2014
Text panel & Video.

The Art Language Location exhibition starts 15th October 2014 and this work will be on display at St Johns college library Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm each day, finishing on 31st October.

'The Face of Coxmoor' drawing one N.Gear 2014

My sculpted face using found materials has been taken back into the woods where I walk and photographed amongst the debris left to rot in the undergrowth.
I've been working on the printed photo by drawing into the surface, playing with notions of memory, reality, unreality, and adding another layer of life into the work.
I plan to do an A2 size version, to be part the ALL Exhibition at St Johns College Library Cambridge later in October 2104.

the 'Face of Coxmoor' N.Gear Aug 2104

Using debris collected during my Coxmoor woods walks this face has been 'emerging', which is also a response to the mask of the poet Wordsworth seen earlier in the year at St Johns college Cambridge.
The blue plastic in the photo I came across whilst walking and have nestled the face within it's folds. The mix of man made and natural materials reflecting the way in which we use the environment around us. 
The 'Face of Coxmoor' will feature in the 'Art language Location' exhibition in Cambridge during October 2014. 

'Letter [from the edge] 2014' N.Gear

This drawing just completed looks through the prism of some plastic rubbish found whilst walking the 'edgeland' landscape of the Coxmoor estate, Nottinghamshire. 

It combines a photograph along with physical marks made to the A2 print surface; juxtaposing the mundane and profound in my everyday walk.