This Matter

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2011-04-21T08:56:00.000-07:00

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Laura Shimmin

2010-10-11T08:03:00.001-07:00

Studies in Action 1 & 2 (2010)

For Laura, drawing and painting can be meditative mediums for channelling thoughts and ideas. Her artistic method comprises of mark-making within the landscape and finds a sense of order in the chaos of the natural world through locating rhythm and language.

Simplicity/ Synchronicity

Sensitivity/ Anarchy

Light/ Disorientation

Claes Oldenburg

2010-10-11T07:52:00.000-07:00

Postcard from London Knees (1966)

Claes Oldenburg visited London for the first time in October-November 1966 while preparing his first one-man show at the Robert Fraser Gallery, London.

"Created as a proposal for a gigantic monument at the Victoria Embankment, London. 'London Knees' (1966), was a very contemporary phenomenon, due to the recent invention of the miniskirt. It is difficult now to imagine how revolutionary this paradoxical combination of masculine voyeurism and feminine liberation seemed in its time. However, 'Knees' would not have qualified as the subject of a colossal monument, without links to other formal themes observed in London's surroundings, such as turrets and columns in the city's architecture or the ubiquitous posters of a government anti-smoking campaign showing heaps of butts, or 'fagends'. The architectural and fetishistic functions of 'Knees' was accentuated by the fashion of wearing boots with the mini, which created a sharply demarcated area of the body suitable for objectification." Oldenburg. Multiples in Retrospect.

From Oldenburg. Multiples in Retrospect pg 56

Sovay Berriman

2010-09-20T08:39:00.000-07:00

'A Dark Honeyed Matter' (2010)

Sovay's newly commissioned site specific artwork for This Matter, conjours up curious feelings of the strange and unfamiliar. The form and scale of this anonymous self contained object, sits seemingly lightly within its carefully orchestrated position. This artwork does not look like it has accidently landed on earth but placed directly to confront the viewer.

Sovay retains a strong reference and link to the landscape, most particularly those environments that seem to show a lack of human intervention, areas that can exist in the imagination as wild places. It is this possibility for landscape in the imagination that she plays upon, considering its potential for escapism, and acts of daring and resilience, as can be found in fable and lore. This will be brought together with the continuing exploration into the visibility of narrative in the work that she makes. Physically the work is concerned with mass and the dynamic of individual pieces within a space; materials are used to emphasize the lure of escapism, yet also draw attention to its façade, and insubstantial nature.

Robert Motherwell

2010-09-20T08:26:00.001-07:00

'Automatism B' (1965/66)

Robert Motherwell is formally known as an Abstract Expressionist artist who explores theories of automatism (expressing the subconscious through artistic mediums). Experimenting with this technique, Motherwell developed a loose yet vigorous brushwork that resonated emotion. He explored positive and negative space in his paintings and prints.

In 1961, Motherwell began making limited edition prints of his work. He synthesised his unique abstract style with the technical characteristics of printmaking. What we see in Motherwell's print is an action and an imprint, or mapping of the artists' mind. This piece has an organic or even biological reference to the artists' position and view of the world.

Celia Hempton

2010-08-23T04:12:00.001-07:00

'Tyre Piles' and 'River Mouth' (2008)

Celia’s landscape observations are influenced by visiting remote building sites, roadsides and disused canals, putting herself in potentially dangerous situations. These places have evidence of a human presence, however they seem uninhabitable and unpopulated, which evokes a sense of loneliness and absurdity in her paintings.

Drawings are made on site and brought into the studio, where in a more reflective environment she can become intuitively involved in making a painterly response to the psychological.

Harry Lawson

2010-08-23T04:09:00.001-07:00

Liverpool Rubble Displacement (2010)

This Matter installation picture, with Ilana Halperin (background)

Robert Smithson

2010-08-23T04:05:00.000-07:00

Mirror Chalk Displacement (1969)

'For many Artists the Universe is expanding; for some it is contracting'

Big Bucket

2010-07-16T12:01:00.000-07:00

This Matter

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Laura Shimmin

Claes Oldenburg

Sovay Berriman

Robert Motherwell

Celia Hempton

Harry Lawson

Robert Smithson

Big Bucket

Tomas Chaffe

Black Heart Procession

"The Space Beyond Me" - Julius von Bismarck

Robert Smithson - Spiral Jetty

The Illusion of Reality

Tesseract

Helium 3

The Moon

The Most Momentous Event in the History of Science

Tortoise - Seneca

CERN

Doug Fishbone

King Kong

Hold That Critter Down

River vs Road

Origin of the Universe

The Skeleton Coast

Robert Smithson - Floating Island

C.G.Jung

Plato's Cave

Mappa Mundi

Asteroid Impact

Volcano Formation

Continental Drift

The Ultra Deep Field Experiment

Old Joy

Beautiful Minds

Tyres Piles

Avalanche

The Known Universe

Shaun O'Dell

Oil and Gas Demonstration

Katia and Maurice Krafft

ICELAND: A Drive Through the North

Eyjafjallajoekull

Peter Coffin

Wasatch Fault

Wave Rock

Stonehenge

Hyperion

Bunker Buster

James Turrell's Roden Crater

Lava vs Tree

Mars Loops the Loop

Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?

Glacial Blood-Red Waterfall

Hill Climb

Radiant Copenhagen

The Legend of Atlantis

Cloudbusting

The Venus Project

Boulder

Mudslide

The Barringer Crater, Arizona

Entropy in Thermodynamics

Gelitin – Zapf de Pipi (Piss Icicle)

Rockall

Koyaanisqatsi

Japan Landslide

Belbury Poly

Joao Maria and Pedro Paiva

Keith Tyson

Mountains of Concrete

Gold Panning

Robert Smithson on entropy

Mars

Tacoma Bridge

Werner Herzog

Gustav Metzger

Easter Island