Seeing Through The Ground
- Submitting institution
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University for the Creative Arts
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Gregson, A. 2019. SG
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Grizedale Forest Gallery (UK), Glisholme Forest (Denmark), AVA Gallery (UK)
- 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/5150/
- 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
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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5 - Space and Place
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- ‘Seeing Through the Ground’ explores the connections and conflicting relationships between human activity, mass production and nature. It examines the agency of objects and the form of things in the structures shared amongst humans and non-humans alike. Developing new sculpture and drawing, the project developed across several linked projects that shared common research aims, questions and processes. It resulted in solo exhibitions/installations of public sculpture.
The research commenced with an art residency at Outlandia, Fort William, which tested and consolidated knowledge of casting in nature. The research was developed further during a Henry Moore Foundation Residency in the School of Fine Art at University of East London. There Andrea Gregson visited the Thames foreshore to locate fragments from industry and nature which she cast into works including ‘Restless Terrain’ (2016). A further residency at Gæsteatelier Hollufgård, Denmark (2017) resulted in two new works ‘Korssting’ and ‘Checkpoint’. In 2019, Gregson continued the research in Grizedale Forest, locating former sites of industry and making work for her solo show ‘Seeing Through the Ground’ at Grizedale Forest Gallery; a second iteration of ‘Checkpoint’ was installed in the forest.
The research offers new ways of thinking about materials and their histories. Gregson draws on processes of casting and drawing to uncover new knowledge in the following areas: the nature and behaviour of materials; mass, volume and spatial perception; artists’ labour and non-verbal thought. This knowledge feeds an intricate, evolving understanding of her environment through sculptural process, transforming materials to mimic forces in nature.
Supporting contextual information outlines the project’s underpinning research context, aims and methods and includes images of the making and exhibition of the artefacts. It also includes a PDF of the ‘Seeing through the Ground’ booklet, and information on funding and follow-on activities.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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