Bummock: The Lace Archive
- Submitting institution
-
University of Lincoln
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 31213
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
-
-
- Location
- -
- Brief description of type
- Curation, artist book, publication
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- January
- Year
- 2018
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
0
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Context and Rationale
Bummock: The Lace Archive is being submitted as a multi-component output because it is a collaborative project comprising multiple artworks, exhibitions and presentations. A ‘Bummock’ is the bulk of an iceberg hidden beneath the surface of the sea, a concept this project uses as a metaphor for the unrealised value of archival objects. Bummock: The Lace Archive started in July 2015 and finished in December 2019, it was funded by the Arts Council England (£12,925).
Research Process, Roles & Contribution
Bracey co-leads Bummock with Danica Maier (Nottingham Trent University) and Sian Vaughan (art historian / archivist Birmingham City University). Bracey and Maier have established a process they describe as ‘controlled rummage’: they initiate dialogue with archivists, establish what is absent from catalogues, physically examine archival artefacts and then critically examine and reflect on objects as the basis for creative practice. Bracey’s artwork from the project to date is: WV1723 which comprises 506 Indian ink drawings, exhibited as an installation, a book and as projections. He focused on one page of a technical ledger to create drawings at different degrees of magnification, abstraction and decipherability. He transformed the drawings into an animation that recalls lace manufacture in its repetition of movement. He created one soundtrack and commissioned nine more, resulting in a five-hour work designed to be experienced with the exhibited drawings.
Insights
Insights that this work produced revolve around how individuality can be produced within repetition – a quality that drew Bracey towards the calligraphic idiosyncrasy in the ledgers.
Sharing
Bummock has been shared in exhibitions (Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, 26/1/18 - 18/2/18; Ruskin Gallery Cambridge 25/1/19 – 16/2/19; Constance Howard Gallery, London, 11/11/19 – 20/12/19). Conference papers have been presented at MMU, and Cardiff University and an accompanying catalogue Bummock: The Lace Archive published by FTB Press.
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -