All That Remains: Thirty Years in the Making
- Submitting institution
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University for the Creative Arts
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Bottle, N. 2019. AR
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery (London), Ruthin Craft Centre (Denbighshire), Rochester Art Gallery (Rochester)
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- -
- Year of first exhibition
- 2019
- URL
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https://research.uca.ac.uk/5198/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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1 - Crafts and Textile Research
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- ‘All That Remains’ is a body of fine-art textile research. Neil Bottle has a thirty-year career working as both a researcher and a commercial fashion print textile designer, and ‘All That Remains’ positions his practice firmly as research, unconfined by the constraints of commercial work. Bottle mines his own autobiography and archive of family photographs, exploring the nostalgia evoked by these material fragments. Physical photographic prints and digitally captured images are deconstructed and re-presented, translated into complex and layered digital designs. The work investigates society’s transition from analogue to digital processes for the creation of family photographs and the storage, preservation and transmission of memories. It investigates how people interact with digitally created images, and considers the value of the physical artefact in a virtual world.
The research outcome is a series of 13 wall-hung textile artworks (the largest approximately 120 x 180 cm), disseminated in one-man exhibitions at Contemporary Applied Arts in London and the Ruthin Craft Centre in Denbighshire, with further exhibitions planned. Supporting contextual information in the portfolio provides further explanation of research methods, processes and insights, and a range of visual material that represents the output.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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