Repetition and multiples – the horse series - Multiple Exhibitions and Flag nominations drawing prizes
- Submitting institution
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York St John University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 478
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Lage Egal, Berlin
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- June
- Year of first exhibition
- 2017
- URL
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http://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/4836/
- 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
- Repetition and Multiples – the Horse Series is a single component practice-based output that represents a body of work comprised of 17 drawings, developed between 2017-2019 and disseminated through four exhibitions. This body of work creatively interrogates a horse motif; exploring this animal’s deeply embedded significance in the interplay of past and present in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire. Its methodology is driven by its selection of found, humble materials, which has emerged via a synthesis of the non-verbal forms of communication to be found in the practices of drawing, collage, and British folk art. This investigation has created a visual dialogue between regional heritage, social class, rural landscape and human and non-human relations that is at the forefront of the field of contemporary drawing.
This research builds on a resurgence of interest in the diversity and significance of British Folk Art throughout (Tate, 2014; Compton Verney, 2016). Viewed through the philosophical lens of Michel De Certeau, Folk Art empowers ‘ordinary’ people through the appropriation and transformation of ideas and artefacts from the mainstream, enabling them to make their own culture (1984). The Horse Series creates its own ‘bricolage’ (De Certeau) of high art and regional heritage, taking further inspiration from Henri Matisse’s famous practice of ‘drawing with scissors’ (MoMA, 2020; Hayward, 2020) and the convergence of social classes in horse racing (Bowes Museum, 2010). As such this research illuminates the social responsibility of contemporary artists by exploring the significance of a region’s past in order to enrich its cultural life in the present.
Funded in-kind by Ryedale District Council and disseminated nationally in the group exhibitions Art Happens Here (Ryedale Folk Museum, North Yorkshire, 2020), and toured in four national prizes Derwent Art Prize (2020); Derwent Drawing Prize (2018); Jerwood (2017) and Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (2019).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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