Detours and Dislocations – In the Footsteps of Malcolm Lowry
[Exhibition] at the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, July 7 - August 26, 2018:
Exhibition of artworks: Lightbox with Durst Lambda Duratran transparency, Ink-jet, C-type and gelatin silver photographs; 80, 35 mm carousel slide projection (automated), Video (Black and white, 14 mins: Super 8 transfer to DVD), archival photographs and text. The exhibition which was reviewed by Laura Robertson: https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/independents-biennial-2018-giving-artists-want/
was jointly exhibited with the photographer Tom Wood, Photographs of Cammell Laird Shipyard 1993 - 1996 as part of the Independents programme in the Liverpool Biennial, 2018.
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University of Chester
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-23/320003
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Williamson Art Gallery and Museum.
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- July
- Year of first exhibition
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Additional information
- The installation of my work at the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum presented a series of individual pieces, which as a collection, triangulate the relationship between three locations to which I have travelled and returned. The research examines Wirral born author Malcolm Lowry’s relationship with: Liverpool/the North West; Vancouver and the Isle of Man (where I was born) and the significance of these locations for Lowry’s life and work.
This strand of my practice and research investigates Lowry and other artists’ work, which also includes Kurt Schwitters: whose writing, art practices and legacy are defined by the different modalities of travel and journeys - whether a voluntary or involuntary movement from one place and another, including tourism, migration, expatriation and exile. Lowry was born in New Brighton in 1909, and visited the Isle of Man as a child. Lowry’s first novel Ultramarine (1933) takes Liverpool as its point of departure, and he completed his most important writing including Under the Volcano (1947) whilst living in Dollarton, North Vancouver, between 1940 - 1944; Here Lowry was befriended by a retired Manx boat builder Jimmy Craige.
In my work an auto-ethnographic methodology investigates the role biography and the way in which the author or artist’s presence and identity is embedded in practice and writing. The exhibition included a lightbox housed photographic artwork, C-type and gelatin-silver (black and white) photographs, video transfer from Super 8 film, a 1/50 scale model, and an automated 35 mm carousel slide projection. The configuration of works stage a narrative, which manifests ideas of place, and the space in between. Revisiting these intersections, a space is opened up for new psychogeographic encounters with the known and unknown, which merge and diverge as new territories and identities are revealed in a condensation of time, place and memory.
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