Exhibitions and Projects 2016

EXHIBITION –MIAR Ceramics & Arts

Christmas 2016 Open House Exhibition

MIAR Ceramics & Arts, 9A Hove Place, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 2RG 01273 323726

Southampton University: TAG Conference and Exhibition ‘Visualisation’

The Chart of Invisibility, Lighting Up the Ridgeway (commissioned for Field Days) and one of my Field Map paintings have been selected for inclusion in Sightations – an archaeology inspired exhibition running as part of this years Theoretical Archaeology Group [TAG] conference hosted by Southampton University. The conference theme is ‘visualisation’. “The exhibition seeks to unpack what it means to represent archaeology visually in 2016. By juxtaposing creative art forms with scientific approaches to representation Sightations takes aim at archaeological visual conventions and strives to reveal new links between different disciplines, creative industries and sectors of archaeology- drawing connections between ideas with an eye towards future directions for archaeological visualisations.”

Conference runs 19-21 Dec 2016

Other News

Chart of Invisibility posters are now available to order.

Inspired by an archive 1940’s copy of ‘Phillip’s Chart of the Stars’ The Chart of Invisibility uses archaeological data on the distribution and current condition of round barrows and re-imagines it as a constellation map. The map charts the position of all known barrows across the whole South Dorset Ridgeway area. The varying size of the dots or ‘earthwork encounter rating’ indicates whether a barrow is in good condition and therefore visible; damaged and partially visible or completely destroyed with no visible trace remaining. Eliminating all other mapping detail brings the focus purely on the pattern of distribution and relationship to landscape.

The Chart of Invisibility along with its companion work Lighting Up the Ridgeway were commissioned for a project aimed at increasing public understanding of the South Dorset Ridgeway – an archaeologically significant area of Dorset. Both the works focus on the numerous barrows or tumuli that populate this landscape and the contrast between those visible today and the number that once existed. The works were originally shown in Field Days – a touring exhibition curated by Artsreach as part of a South Dorset Ridgeway Partnership project funded by the Heritage Lottery. Both artworks were based on data kindly provided by Claire Pinder, Senior Archaeologist, Dorset County Council.

Digital prints on satin 250g paper

Size A1 (594 x 841 mm) £20 plus P&P

Size A0 (841 x 1189mm) £30 plus P&P

Please email me for details: amandawallwork9@gmail.com

Also

Some of my work for the step in stone Mendips Art in Quarries trail project was shown as part of this years Geological Association annual conference where Sam Scriven from the Jurassic Coast Team gave a presentation on how the arts can be successfully used in earth science engagement and interpretation. It’s really pleasing to be able to show work beyond the usual gallery contexts.

Meanwhile I am hard at work on a commission for the South Dorset Ridgeway Partnership involving ‘Interpretation’ for a series of walks exploring the landscapes of this archaeologically and geologically significant area of Dorset.

Field Days

Commissioned by Artsreach, this exhibition of work by six artists is inspired by the archaeology, geology and ancient myths and legends of the South Dorset Ridgeway. The show also includes work by artists Dan Bendel, Sarah Butterworth, Isla Chaney, Tessa Farmer and Susan Kinley.

My work for this project has focused on the numerous barrows (or tumuli) that are such a feature of this landscape. Working with graphic designer Richard Sercombe and electronics wizard Nigel Day I have created an illuminated panel – reminiscent of a starry night sky that uses lights to plot all the known barrow sites of the South Dorset Ridgeway area – including those where no visible trace now remains. By pressing a button the viewer is able to switch between lighting up those barrows that survive reasonably intact and still visible today and revealing the sites of those that are more difficult to detect or completely destroyed. The work draws attention not only to the vast number of barrows but also their distribution and relationship to the landscape. The work is based on barrow condition data supplied by Claire Pinder, Senior Archaeologist with Dorset County Council Council.

Chart of Invisibility – A new work for Field Days

Alongside my illuminated panel and series of paintings based on the traces of lost barrows, these next shows of the exhibition tour will include an additional new work. This uses the same archaeological data on barrow condition and distribution but this time reinterpreted as a constellation chart in the style of an old 1940’s star map. Poster copies of the Chart of Invisibility will be available soon – contact me for details.

The exhibition will visit the following venues:

• Walford Mill Craft Centre, Wimborne BH21 1NL Saturday 18 June – Sunday 3 July, Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sundays 11am-4pm
• Martinstown Village Hall DT2 9LF Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 July, 11am-4pm
• Kingcombe Centre, Toller Porcorum DT2 0EQ Friday 22 – Sunday 25 July, 11am-4.30pm

Thanks to Nigel Day, Richard Sercombe, Simon Barber and Claire Pinder for their contribution to making these works.

New Commission!

Really excited to announce a new commission that’s going to keep me very busy this summer! Working with the South Dorset Ridgeway again this is a commission to produce interpretation and way markers for ten new walks exploring the varying landscapes of this fascinating area of Dorset. More news soon.

Step in Stone

Salisbury Arts Centre

18 August – 24 September

Private View: Friday 19 August, 6-8pm

Another chance to see some of the work produced for the Step in Stone project. This project commissioned artists to produce work in response to the nature of quarries and their place in the environmental, cultural and industrial heritage of the Eastern Mendip region.

Salisbury Arts Centre, Bedwin Street, Salisbury, SP1 3UT

www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk

 

The New Breed Academicians

Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Street

5 September – 15 October

Monday – Saturday: 9.30am – 5.00pm

Private View: Monday 5 September, 7- 9pm

A selection of work by academicians from The Royal West of England Academy elected over the last 5 years from 2011 – 2016.

Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School, Street, Somerset BA16 0YD

01458 444322

www.atkinsongallery.co.uk

Down Memory Lane

19 March – 22 May 2016

Walford Mill Craft Centre, Wimborne BH21 1NL

Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sundays 11am-4pm

An exhibition celebrating Walford Mill Crafts 30th year and showing work by 40 prominent makers who have all been previously involved with the Mill.

www.walfordmillcrafts.co.uk

MIAR Ceramics & Arts – May 2016 Open House

Part of the ‘Artists Open House Festival’ in Brighton.

30th April & all weekends and Bank Holidays in May plus other dates by appointment. Open 11am-6pm

MIAR, 9A Hove Place, Hove, East Sussex BN3 2RG

01273 323726

www.miararts.com

Art on the Block – 2016 Charity Auction

Tuesday 24 May

I have donated a work to this years Art on the Block event.

Renowned local and international artists have created works on A5 blocks, including painting, drawing, print, glass, collage and sculpture for Art on the Block – a charity art auction raising funds to improve the environment at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton. You can support this event by pre-bidding on line from 11 April until 9 May 2016 or attend the auction which takes place in the Beacon Centre, Musgrove Park Hospital on Tuesday 24 May 2016 at 6pm. Tickets £8, on sale now from the Art for Life office (artforlife@tst.nhs.uk or 01823 342488), and include wine and canapes.

View work

Exhibitions and Projects 2015

New exhibitions in Dorchester plus projects working with the geology of the Mendips and the archaeology of The South Dorset Ridgeway.

Reveal:Conceal exhibition with Rob Woolner at Dukes new gallery and showroom in Dorchester.

I will be showing new works alongside some from my archive that explore the theme. This exhibition is the first in a new partnership between Dorchester Arts and Dukes Auctioneers developing the market for contemporary visual art.

Reveal:Conceal
Amanda Wallwork and Robert Woolner
28 October – 20 November, Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm

‘In conversation with…’ event: Saturday 7th November 11am.
Free admission, no booking required.

On Saturday 7 November at 11am the artists will be in conversation with Mark Tattersall, Artistic Director of Dorchester Arts. All are welcome to what promises to be a fascinating insight into both the inspiration and process behind the work. Exhibition open 9am-12.30pm

The Gallery at Duke’s, Duke’s Fine Art Salerooms, Copper St, Dorchester DT1 1GA
Secret Art Sale – Bridport Arts Centre
I will have work in the Secret Art Sale on Wednesday 11 November  – a one day only sale of donated artworks to raise funds for Bridport Arts Centre.
All works £50 – one day only – first come first served! Doors open 10am
All enquiries to Exhibitions Assistant – Megan Dunford,
exhibitions@bridport-arts.com

The Lost Landscapes of the South Dorset Ridgeway exhibition at Dorchester County Hospital continues until 9th Jan. If you have trouble finding it – the work is in the corridor leading to Damers Restaurant plus a couple of pieces in the restaurant itself. This new work focuses on the numerous lost barrows of this significant prehistoric landscape.

My work exploring the prehistoric archaeology of this area of Dorset continues with the commission for the Field Days project (working with Artsreach and Dorset AONB). Research and development for this is well underway. The exhibition will tour sometime next spring.

Lost Landscapes of the South Dorset Ridgeway
On show until 9th January 2016 – 9am to 6pm daily.
Dorset County Hospital, Williams Avenue, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 2JY.

Step in Stone
I have now collected all the work I made for the Step in Stone project from the Mendip quarries and Black Swan Arts. The project has been absolutely fascinating and a challenge for me to create work for an exterior context. I wanted to engage people in the concept of deep time and made a series of works for the three locations that drew attention to the age and make up of the rocks of the area – this included paintings, interpretation signs, fridge magnets and a cabinet containing stories of deep time. Anyone interested in a souvenir Deep Time fridge magnet let me know!

A big thank you to Gill Odolphie at the Somerset Earth Science Centre and Jeremy Rushton of the Mineralogy and Petrography team at the British Geological Survey for their support and the microscopic scans of rock samples from the four main rock types found in the area.

www.stepinstone-somerset.co.uk

Project – Step in Stone – Site specific Art Trail and Exhibition

Tying in with Somerset Art Weeks Festival 2015 Momentum programme.

3 – 18 October 2015

PREVIEW at Black Swan Arts, Frome on Friday 2 Oct 6.00 – 8.00pm – all welcome.

Encounter contemporary artworks while exploring the spectacular, wild landscapes of abandoned and working quarries in rural East Mendip. Fourteen leading local and international artists, all with connections to the South West, have created a series of site-specific artworks in response to the nature of quarries and their place in the cultural and industrial heritage of the region. Work includes sculpture, land art, photography, textiles, painting, drawing, sound, spatial poetry and printmaking ranging from the intimate to the extravagant. Sites include 1 working and 2 disused quarries and three indoor venues including an exhibition at Black Swan Arts. Full details from http://www.stepinstone-somerset.co.uk and the Somerset Art Weeks Festival 2015 guide, venue 60.

My work can be seen across three venues,

• Westdown/Asham Quarry, nr Chantry BA11 3LY, Map ref: ST716 461. Open 7 days a week
• Fairy Cave Quarry, Limekiln Lane, nr Oakhill BA3 5JG. Map ref: ST656 476. Open 11.00am – 6.00pm daily
• Black Swan Arts Centre, 2 Bridge Street, Frome BA11 1BB. Open 10.00am – 4.00pm, Mon – Sat and Sun 4 (Closed Sun 11, 18)

www.stepinstone-somerset.co.uk

Project – Field Days

I have been awarded a commission to produce work for ‘Field Days’, a project aimed at bringing to life the history of the South Dorset Ridgeway – an area of considerable archaeological significance.

The project is presented by rural touring organisation Artsreach in partnership with Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Commissioned work will form the basis of a touring exhibition around villages in the South Dorset Ridgeway in Spring 2016. The exhibition will display contemporary work alongside found/ archived objects/existing archaeological sites and data and will aim to increase understanding of the local heritage and how we might engage with the landscape and environment through the arts.

The project links beautifully with my current research into the lost landscapes of this ancient ridgeway route across Dorset.

This area of high ground in West Dorset is one of the richest archaeological sites in Britain and has international significance as one of the most diverse prehistoric landscapes in Europe. It includes evidence of Neolithic causewayed enclosures, bank barrows, chambered tombs, henge monuments, stone circles, multiple Bronze Age round barrows and Iron Age hillforts. My intention is to work with new evidence identified by the National Mapping Programme and other mapping data to reveal more about the many sites that are not immediately apparent or visible on the ground. These sites are revealed as faint marks or changes in colour of soil or vegetation identified by aerial photography and new remote sensing technology. First stage works will be shown at Dorset County Hospital in September 2015.

Project – Step In Stone

PROJECT – Step in Stone

I have been commissioned to produce new work in response to quarry sites in the Mendips for the Step in Stone project – A multi stranded art trail in 2015 around 3 disused/working quarries in the East Mendips. This project gives me an exciting opportunity to develop my work exploring a totally new geological region.

Research and early stage work for this commission focusing on geological mapping of this extensively quarried area is currently in progress. My work will be displayed in two disused quarries (Westdown 15 Aug – 18 Oct and Fairy Cave 3 – 18 Oct) as well as the final exhibition at Black Swan in Frome 3 – 18 October 2015.

www.stepinstone-somerset.co.uk

Exhibition – Land Tracks

Wine St Gallery, Devizes

Sat 13 June – Sat 25 July 2015

Private View: Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 June 2015, 2 pm – 5 pm

Amanda Wallwork RWA, Brian Graham and Sally McLaren REA Plus Ceramicists Paula Downing, Peter Hayes, Trevor Lillistone, Sarah Purvey, Robin Welch and Bernard Leach

Wine St Gallery @ No. 10, Unit 10, White Horse Business Centre, Hopton Road, Devizes SN10 2HJ

Open: Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11am–4pm plus Wednesday 11am–2pm or by appointment

07852 945598

www.thewinestreetgallery.com

Night Watching

Oil, graphite and plaster on board,
59 x 76cm, 2008
From the Time Walking and Night Walking series but also relates to the Lost Ways series as being painted in response to The Tinners Way, West Penwith, Cornwall.

Bodrifty Cross

Oil, graphite and plaster on board,
51 x 61 cm,
2007

One of a series of works mapping The Tinners Way – an ancient trackway across the moors of West Penwith, Cornwall
From the Lost Ways project

SOLD

Deep Time 13

Oil and Plaster on board,
60 x 80cm
2012
From the Deep Time series

Mapping the Ridgeway 5

Oil, graphite and plaster on board,
41 x 51cm, 2013

See the South Dorset Ridgeway project for more info

Mapping 004

Oil, graphite and plaster on board,
51 x 61cm

2009

See the South Dorset Ridgeway for more info

Nine Paths

Oil, graphite and plaster on board,
100 x 100cm (9 separate 30 x 30cm blocks),
2007

From the Lost Ways series

Timewalking

Walking the old ways, exploring ancient tracks and byways and their relationship to the landscape and the history and geology of the area.

Works in the Time Walking and Night Walking series capture the resonance of journeys in both time and place. These walks encompass the physical, and imagined aspects of the past and present – an immersion that involves all the senses giving insight into the way we use and traverse our land, understanding the reasons for why things are where they are, and making sense of these routes. Works in this series link with Lost Ways and other mapping works.

 

 

 

The Colour of Time

185 Million Years is a colour code for the Jurassic Coast from The Colour of Time series – part of an ongoing series of work researching the concept of how colour can map time.

This work is based on a geological ‘stratigraphic column’ describing the vertical location of rock layers, and represents the whole length of the Jurassic Coast – from the older (Triassic) red rocks of Devon to the younger (Cretaceous) white chalk of East Dorset. The unique aspect of this coastline and why it is a World Heritage Site is that massive earth movements have tilted all the layers of rock shifting what was a vertical timeline to a horizontal one enabling us by walking the coastline to literally walk through time. The sequence of blocks refers to the colour coding legends or keys of geological maps, each block representing a different rock layer and period of time, mapping the age and sequence of formation. Unlike geology maps that have their own colour system to symbolise the geological make up of a landscape this work uses the actual rock colours.

The Colour of Time is one of my most current areas of exploration.  Initially inspired by old hand coloured geological maps I became fascinated by the colour coding systems used. There is an interesting back story as to how the colours were decided and eventually a universal system adopted – which I am collating info on.

 

This small work is a view of St Ives Bay based on early geological mapping – the colours relate to geology colour codes though this time I’m using the official geological colour coding rather than actual colours – hence the pretty pink tones representing granite! I forgot to take a photo of the finished piece before sending to the gallery so this is an early stage image. There is a colour key on the side of the block.