Yellow - The LARQ Residency
- Submitting institution
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University of the West of England, Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 2618567
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- Landscape Art Research Queenstown (LARQ), Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia
- Open access status
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- Month of production
- November
- Year of production
- 2014
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- Supplementary information
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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
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Research Process
This portfolio comprises over 40 drawings and 31 paintings made during Webb’s invited residency as the international artist in Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia. Based in a world-famous mining town, the work responds to copper mining and mass logging in the early 1900s. Webb explored the mining process, in relation to his use of pigments from the ground to create paint. Queenstown is known by geologists for its open cut and underground and silver-gold mines.
Research Insight
Each morning from 6-7am, Webb walked for an hour. The soil in the Queensland landscape are rich in minerals which were collected, sifted, washed and prepared as pigment. The most successful of these were vivid purple earth and a copper green. These pigments contributed to Webb’s development of a distinct colour grammar drawn from colour families as they relate to the earth, and to Jacques Lacan’s writings on the relationship between perception and the unconscious.
Research Dissemination
Group exhibitions:
The LARQ Effect, Gallery Ten, Hobart, Tasmania. Exhibition of six paintings from the residency, November 2014.
Ten Years: the last LARQ, LARQ Foundation, Queenstown, October 2015.
John Moores Painting Prize, 2016.
Solo exhibitions:
Code Yellow, exhibition at the LARQ Gallery and the Bank Studio, Queenstown, April 2014.
Publication and poster for Code Yellow: includes essay by Dr Joanne Reardon, Listen, 2014.
Landscape is a Conversation, with publication and essays, including essay Drawing as a Way of Thinking, March 2015.
Slade School of Fine Art, London, June 2015.
Public lectures and debates:
Ten Day Festival, Tasmania, March 2015.
Drawing at the Arnolfini: Drawing as a Way of Thinking, October 2016.
Symposium on colour, Artspeak / Artwork Project, Cleethorpes, November 2016.
Publications:
Tasmanian International Arts Festival, Ten Days, Queenstown, Landscape is a Conversation, March 2015.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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