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Found in the Place of Origin is the culmination of the Masters in Art and Process course at Crawford College of Art and Design C.I.T. The exhibition showcases art by the MA:AP 2016 students, who come from different creative backgrounds and work across different mediums.
The exhibition will run from November 25th to December 9th. There will also be a series of events organised by the students that include discussions, screenings and online interactions. These events explore the collaborations and crossovers that feed into the exhibition and the array of ideas underpinning it. The exhibition title Found in the Place of Origin is derived from a definition of residual clay. Like the organic material of clay, each artist’s individual work emerged from a combined experience of shared time and space. This process was the MA:AP journey and its final moment is conceived as a beginning rather than an end, the start of a new phase in the students’ artistic practices. In other words, it is a place of origin. This is how the students came to align themselves with clay as a series of residual deposits that collectively form a new entity. The works on display are grouped in a meandering call and response structure that suggests erosion and sedimentation: in the process of breaking down, new things emerge. These ideas encompass debris and disintegration as related to material, narrative, memory, time and the body. But they are also open to questioning materiality, order and our perception of reality itself in seeking new forms and potentials. A programme of events organised by the MA:AP students called Removed from the Place of Origin runs concurrently with the show. If the name of the exhibition itself reflects the fixity of residual clay, Removed from the Place of Origin references sedimentary clay that has drifted, been transported, enriched by other material and deposited in new places and in new forms. These discussions, workshops, performances, screenings, and online interactions explore the collaborations and crossovers that feed into the exhibition and the array of ideas underpinning it. These interactions with selected audiences reflect the diverse range of dialogues and concerns that inform the works in the show. Facebook.com/maap.ccad Instagram: crawfordmaap_2016 My work has always come from media sources, be it film, tv or internet. The work I currently have on show as part of Found in the Place of Origin, all came from stills taken from youtube videos posted by news agencies. The original images were of press conferences or meeting of Heads of State.
I identified with clay as a metaphor for the creation of works, because I take the information that I receive from my informational environment and distill that into a new form. it is not only the news videos but also a general understanding of a visual language that informs my work. There are certain things which convey power and authority, I found that messages from figures of authority all most always took place within a context of wealth, large stately homes which were built by monarchs but continued to be used by government to refer to an inherited historical wealth of the state. |