Cave Research Trip

Durdle Door

West Bay

Werner Holfmann on Gustav Courbet's The Source of the Loue or La Grotte 1864.
'What again and again draws Courbet's eye into caves, crevices and grottoes is the facination that eminates from the hidden, the impenetrable, but also the longing for security. What is behind this is a panerotic mode of experience that percieves in nature a female creature and consequently projects the experience of cave and grotto into the female body.

This relation to the female form is not something that I relate to my own work.

Ian Kiaer

transcends literal reading to create suggestions of invented narratives.
- objects arranged to create a series of miniture landscapes - COMPOSITION
- work scaled to the size of the human body and dramatised by your movement around it at foot and eye level.

Alex Hartley

Survival at the end of the world. Dystopian architecture. What would I do if there were no more other people? What would I do if I had to move away from all other people?

Inspired by counter culture refugees such as Colorado's 1965- founded 'Drop City' which was one of the first hippie communes. (geodesic domes)

'The World is Still Big' at Victoria Miro.

- creating habitats in inhospitable landscapes. 

Toba Khedoori - Making insignificant objects important

Making objects into more than just objects. Abstracting them from what they were before and turning them into something different.

 Untitled (Rocks)

 Untitled (Logs)

Alienation. Khedoori's 'canvas' consists of large sheets of unframed paper, slightly overlapping and stapled directly to the wall. These may reach up to three metres in height and span as much as eight metres. There is no human presence but, like a stage set for an impending drama, the possibility of action is always there.

Ways of displaying objects

Thomas Schutte

Francis Upritchard

Charles Avery Stone Mice - Making insignificant objects important

A Stone Mouse is: ´part animal, part mineral, whose heart beats only once every thousand year´
To identify a Stone Mouse: ´one must identify its central axis, being the line which runs between its two most extreme points (A and B), the distance AB being its length. This line must be occupied by the stone at all
points along it (so a banana-shaped stone would not qualify)´
Stone Mice need to: ´possess je ne sais quoi´
Sadly once taken from the Island and: ´subject to the harsh light of Reality… the Stone-mouse becomes merely a stone that looks like a mouse´

Julius Bissier c.1965