2010
September - Research begins for site locations as the project starts to take shape.
October - Wensum river installations are installed at Wensum Park, Norwich.
November - Hunstanton and Happisburgh coastlines visited, for documentation to aid the designing of outdoor works.
December - Outdoor work preparations begin; working in workshop welding metal structures as well as sourcing materials.
2011
January - Happisburgh beach visit, to install the works; Viewfinder and Tension Lines. These works are photographed and the installing is filmed for the Natural Tensions Film.
February - Natural Tensions Exhibition - Student Gallery, NUCA. The exhibition was an exploration of ideas, which centred around exploring ways which the outdoor documentation could be brought indoors.
March - Kessingland beach visit, for installation of a developed verison of Tension Lines. This site visits provides a new location to test the work against. The work was also recorded for the Natural Tensions Film.
April - With all the material from the site visits, the Natural Tensions Installation for the NUCA Degree show begins to be tested and developed, using specifically the projection slides made from the Happisburgh visit.
May - The Viewfinder installation is built and represents the culmination of the all the stages of the project.
June- The Viewfinder Installation is part of the NUCA Degree Show 2011 with the show opening on June 21st.
Works which aided and resulted from the project-
The beginnings of the project:
Coastal Erosion Drawings Series - September 2010
Natural Landscape - Slide Projection Series:
Wensum River Installations :
Pull of the Current 2010
Outdoor installation at Wensum Park Bridge in Norwich. The work consisted of three lengths of red rope weighted by various sized branches. The work made visible the pull of the current in the river.
Medium - Red Rope, Branches
Water Pendulum 2010
This delicate water pendulum was installed on the Wensum River in Norwich. It was constructed to gently sway with the movements of the water underneath. Hung from a tree and weighted by found natural materials the work acts as a subtle intervention in a natural landscape.
Medium - Red Rope, Branches
Natural Tensions Exhibition :
Norwich University College of the Arts
Student Gallery
28th February - 4th March 2011
Exhibition Poster:
Natural Tensions was a solo exhibition held on the Painting Landing of the Student Gallery at Norwich University of the Arts. It featured works and experimentations all based around responses and installations on the Happisburgh coastline. The show worked as a basis for me to test components for my degree show in June 2011.
The exhibition was split into two halves, with the first half of the week showcasing one body of work, and the second half displaying experiments with curating these ideas in different ways. This allowed me to utilise the time efficiently, to get the most out of removing the work from my studio space into a new location.
The first half of the week was used showcasing compositions of photographs from Happisburgh, being connected by metal wires across the space, continuing the forms from the photographs into the gallery. This was complimented by a steel sculpture of a topography, and wall collages of studio fragments. During the second half of the week, I adjust this by removing the photographs from the wire constructs, and experimented with more stripped back compositions. As well as this I experimented with materials which were used in the photographs such as the blue rope and made compositions using this.
First Exhibition Layout:
Second Exhibition Layout:
Sculptures:
'Linear Landscape'
Steel
'Cliff'
Steel
