'Drawing the Line' Nov 2013 © N Gear

A new project developing is 'Drawing the Line' influenced by the work of Carey Young and her work called 'Body Techniques 2007 - (after A Line in Ireland, Richard Long, 1974)' thinking about the 'haves' and 'have nots' and how this affects our treatment of the environment.

Remember,remember Nov 2013 © N Gear

During my latest walks round Coxmoor woods I took this photo on my 1452 step and started thinking about the links between our today and with past conflicts along with events that resonate from the year 1452. The work shown here is one of a series titled 'Remember, remember'.

'Lost, Found [lost...?]' in Silver Street Cambridge

My installation work is complete and in situ at Cambridge to go and visit.
The video work and evidence bags are made in a way that the objects, text and images create a visual conversation between each element. 
It's an opportunity to engage in a fresh way with the urban landscape and not just pass straight through it.

'Lost, Found [lost...?]' comprising of 10 evidence bags and a rolling 3.5 minute video, is ready to go to Cambridge on Thursday 17th October, for A:L:L

The work is being displayed in an office window in Silver St to be viewed from the outside looking in. 
The location gives the work context to consider the value(s) of the objects and text that have been thrown away and that have subsequently been 'discovered again'.

4 out of the 10 Evidence Bags for A:L:L

13 Evidence Bags have been completed for the A:L:L exhibition; I've just got to edit these down to the best 10, and finish off the video that will accompany the work.
My installation will be on show in the window of the Department of Land Economy, 19 Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9EP, from the 17th of October until Friday the 1st of November.

Lost,Found [lost...?] for A:L:L

Step 18 - East Road - 6th September dérive.

The first evidence bag (one of ten) which comprises of

a photo from that step, along with objects within the bag

from the same step, which can be partly seen through the

tracing paper, and in part seen directly through a 

small window in the bag face. 

A map just finished taken from my GPS track of the Cambridge dérive completed for my Lost Found [lost...?] project. 

4 photos from the main Cambridge 'derive' N.Gear Sept 2013

The main 'dérive' walk around the streets of Cambridge has just been completed with both text and objects having been gathered over 9264 steps taken over 2 hours and twenty minutes, in the pouring rain.
My 'installation' piece 'Lost, found [lost...?] will emerge from the material collected ready for the Art:Language:Location event starting on the 17th of October. 

The work looks to respond to the value(s) we attribute to the words and objects we ‘lose’ in the landscape, what happens when we ‘find’ them again, and what have we have ‘lost’ of ourselves in the process?

My first derive of the streets of Cambridge has been completed and some interesting words and associations have already been emerging for my A:L:L project titled 'Lost, found [lost...]'
See the link on the right of this page to keep up with the event taking place all round Cambridge in October.

Revisiting my notes from the On Walking conference; here are some of my quote highlights:

'Loitering with intent' Morag Rose.

'Walking the river bank - against the flow...'Diane Smith.

'Walking in a group silently gives an amplification to the environment' Marie-Ann Lerjen.

'Making and breaking your own connections is liberating' 
Anne Matthews.

'The Precipice' video installation N.Gear 2013

'The Precipice' video installation currently showing at the Djanogly Gallery Nottingham until Tues 25th June.
A work considering moments of the forward journey and the same points of the return journey [running together], of being 'on the edge' and our relationship with the urban and rural landscape.

Great news I found out this week that I've been chosen to along with a number of other artists to take part in the Art:Language:Location exhibition in Cambridge during Oct 2013. Go have a look at the following link.
http://artlanguagelocation.wordpress.com/

The image shows some of the work I've been developing as part of my 'indexical traces' which hopefully will feature in my degree show coming up from the 19th June to the 25th June at the Djanogly Gallery Nottingham.
I'm also doing an artists talk at the University of Nottingham on May the 14th as per this link: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cas/aboutus/events/cedric-ford-art-exhibition.aspx
Come along and here what I've been up to...

The Precipice (A still from my latest video work)

In my latest work I've been using a walk I used to do as a child in Wales called the Precipice walk.

Taking the notion of 'precipice' I've then over-layed this to explore my local woodland walk, how the traces people have left show their lives to physically & spiritually be on 'the edge' and how ecologically we live on the precipice.

The still above shows how two projections will overlap and juxtapose on two screens.

Following my Interlaced walk (on the 17th of February) I have created this Gif called 'Echo - Falls - White - Storm' which considers and plays with the text found in the urban landscape. The speed of the animation lasting less than 15 seconds echoes the rapid pace of our digital lifestyles and is juxtaposed against the 2.25 hours taken to do the walk and collected the text based images...

Another Artists Walk today [Interlaced] a chance to reconnoitre the urban landscape of Nottingham. This image captured during the two hours reminded me that there is always more to a moment than that which we first see... 

I've found this old TV casing on my walks and it has caused me to think about how I frame the landscape; and how as I do this what I see through the aperture takes on a surreal form. There is a short video clip on the following Youtube link...

http://youtu.be/mfkXRbNQjdU

The Landscape Framed

Another Walk With Me... artists led walk is rapidly approaching see this link  http://goo.gl/TpOC0 for more information. The event is part of the Nottingham Festival of Words, and 4 artists including me will be collecting words from the landscape as we reconnoitre. The image shows an artists map I've just completed inspired by this interlaced theme of the walk.