Saturday, 29 October 2011
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Friday, 26 August 2011
surge
On the 9th September 2011 I have an exhibition entitled surge opening at the Mission Gallery in Swansea...
Sunday, 31 July 2011
Friday, 15 July 2011
W.H. Auden 'seasape (on this island)'
Seascape(On this island)
Look, stranger, on this island now
The leaping light for your delight discovers,
Stand stable here
And silent be,
That through the channels of the ear
May wander like a river
The swaying sound of the sea.
Here at a small field's ending pause
When the chalk wall falls to the foam and its tall ledges
Oppose the pluck
And knock of the tide,
And the shingle scrambles after the suck-ing surf,
And a gull lodges
A moment on its sheer side.
Far off like floating seeds the ships
Diverge on urgent voluntary errands,
And this full view
Indeed may enter
And move in memory as now these clouds do,
That pass the harbour mirror
And all the summer through the water saunter.
Look, stranger, on this island now
The leaping light for your delight discovers,
Stand stable here
And silent be,
That through the channels of the ear
May wander like a river
The swaying sound of the sea.
Here at a small field's ending pause
When the chalk wall falls to the foam and its tall ledges
Oppose the pluck
And knock of the tide,
And the shingle scrambles after the suck-ing surf,
And a gull lodges
A moment on its sheer side.
Far off like floating seeds the ships
Diverge on urgent voluntary errands,
And this full view
Indeed may enter
And move in memory as now these clouds do,
That pass the harbour mirror
And all the summer through the water saunter.
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Thursday, 9 June 2011
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
culture colony locws international 2011
This video by pixel foundry artists archive acts as a document for Locws International 2011.
http://www.culturecolony.com/videos?id=5434
A big special thanks to Jon Anderson, Sean Pulestone, Lawrence Owens, Doireann Cott and James Lewis for their immense help and patience.
http://www.culturecolony.com/videos?id=5434
A big special thanks to Jon Anderson, Sean Pulestone, Lawrence Owens, Doireann Cott and James Lewis for their immense help and patience.
Monday, 25 April 2011
Holocene'
'Holocene'
Inspired by the natural world and responding to its power, its fragility and how it is affected by human development and industrialisation, Alex Duncan's major new installation portrays a possible future scenario of how the natural world may be.
Debris of the modern world - polyurethane foam pebbles - a by-product of the oil industry that the artist has collected from the coastline become monumentally enlarged to wash up on a rising sea. Duncan sees these objects as part of a rolling history, of copper smelting, coal extraction and oil refinery.
Our complicated relationship to the environment is brought under scrutiny, Duncan exposes the intertwinings of man on nature and nature on man in an uncertain future where these boulders may yet hold true and exist, washed up on a surge of environmental change.
Inspired by the natural world and responding to its power, its fragility and how it is affected by human development and industrialisation, Alex Duncan's major new installation portrays a possible future scenario of how the natural world may be.
Debris of the modern world - polyurethane foam pebbles - a by-product of the oil industry that the artist has collected from the coastline become monumentally enlarged to wash up on a rising sea. Duncan sees these objects as part of a rolling history, of copper smelting, coal extraction and oil refinery.
Our complicated relationship to the environment is brought under scrutiny, Duncan exposes the intertwinings of man on nature and nature on man in an uncertain future where these boulders may yet hold true and exist, washed up on a surge of environmental change.
'holocene' locws international 2011
The original site for my work at swansea bay. The piece is now displayed at The National Waterfront Museum, Swansea - http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/swansea/ .
These two decided to see if they could surf the boulder into shore!
locws international 2011
This image documents part of my installation, 'Holocene' for the current Locws International arts event held in Swansea.
common love
Common Love, Aesthetics of Becoming April 27 "resituates love within contemporary sociopolitical discourse" http://tinyurl.com/6dr9tty
posted by Doireann Cott on twitter
posted by Doireann Cott on twitter
Saturday, 2 April 2011
Lau Tzu
Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefitting the myriad creatures without contending them and settles where none would like it to be, it comes close to the way. In a home it is the site that matters; In quality of mind it is depth that matters; In an ally it is benevolance that matters; In speech it is good faith that matters; In government it is order that matters; In affairs it is ability that matters; In action it is timeliness that matters. It is because it does not contend that it is never at fault. Translated by D.C. LAU
Monday, 28 March 2011
'the wild places'
Natural forces - wild energies - often have the capacity to frustrate representation. Our most precise descriptive language, mathematics, cannot fully account for or predict the flow of water down a stream, or the movements of a glacier or the turbulent rush of wind across uplands. Such actions behave in ways that are chaotic: they operate according to feedback systems of unresolvable delicacy and intricacy. But nature also specialises in order and in repetition. The fractal habits of certain landscapes, their tendencies to replicate their own forms at different scales and in different contexts: these can lend a near-mystical sense of organisation to a place, as though it has been built out of a single repeating unit. Robert Macfarlane
Sunday, 20 March 2011
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Monday, 28 February 2011
Locws International
I am currently working on a site related sculpture for Locws International, opening in April of this year. Here is a link to the website for more information.
www.artacrossthecity.com
Locws International 201116 April – 13 May
Simon & Tom Bloor
Alex Duncan
Laura Ford
Rhys Himsworth
Maider López
Bedwyr Williams
www.artacrossthecity.com
Locws International 201116 April – 13 May
Simon & Tom Bloor
Alex Duncan
Laura Ford
Rhys Himsworth
Maider López
Bedwyr Williams
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
great twitter page
http://twitter.com/doireanncott
this person has picked out some really interesting exhibitions to look at
this person has picked out some really interesting exhibitions to look at
Monday, 14 February 2011
new studio space
a big wonderful thankyou to Jane Phillips and Amanda Roderick for getting me this space.http://www.missiongallery.co.uk/Test/. Jane will never be forgotten, I like so many others owe her so much for her support and wonderful nature.
msg in a bottle
one of two messages in plastic bottles found along the gower, this one collected from Holy Wash, sent from Ireland.
Saturday, 15 January 2011
casts
collected casts, concrete in plastic bottles. one from Skysea, Port Eynon, Swansea (Wales). the other from Tifnit, near Agadir, Morocco.
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