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'Real / Unreal' series These photos are of beach sand grains. They really are! They are sand grains seen under a microscope; there is discovery of the unexpected, unknown, awe-inspiring, ineffable, infinite of Nature. The super-imposed scale, bottom left, represents 1mm in real life. How 'unreal' is that! In sand there are minuscule sparkling and sculptural grains of weathered rock and remnant sea-life; coloured minerals and clear glassy quartz, 3-pointed sponge spicules, amber colonies of bryozoa, coloured 'rod' sea urchin spines, and white foraminifera. They are grains from geological and biological eons. The sands for this series of images were collected from Western Australian beaches during a 6 month artist residency. Of technical details, these photos were taken using a trifocal optical light microscope and dedicated camera. The microscope dark field was used underneath, and the sand top-lit with LED spotlights. Each photo is composite, made up of many consecutive digital images which have been 'stacked' and 'stitched'. For this work I am indebted to the generous support of the University of Western Australia, Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (CMCA). To 'Coherent Scientific' for the loan to CMCA of a specific microscope for my work. To Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia for the artist residency and studio space. There are two associated photographic prints available to enhance your appreciation of this artwork; 'Rockingham Beach 1 & 2'. These show the source of the sand for the artwork.
Print:Giclee on Photo Paper
Size:10 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:15.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in
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******My art is an ongoing personal evolution and 'journey'; a conversation and relationship with the world. Through images, words and ideas, often spontaneous and intuitive, it is their gradual realisation on paper, or through 'making', by which I 'research' and find new knowledge ... ******I work/have worked with a variety of materials and processes; photography, paper, book arts and the written word, glass, and built sculpture, natural or recycled materials. Often I work with 'lines', metaphorical and real. ******For my 'Glass and Light' series, I have revisited earlier work, particularly of the Australian 'Sculpture by the Sea' 2013/14 exhibitions. I re-question the personal and wider meaning in each artwork. *****My photography, 'Real/Unreal' series, 'Dynamic Earth' series, 'Opus Magnum' series, is about world beaches visited, their visual 'outer' landscapes, and their 'inner' microscopic awe-inspiring sand grains; it is about ways of perceiving; large to small, outer to inner, inner to outer. There can be a 'spirituality', and 'Eden', found in the natural world; this needs to include both the 'light' and 'dark', and acknowledge potential idealism. *******I hope that my work stirs questions and gently widens perspectives and sensibilities. *******For 'bread and butter' I currently work at the Britten Pears Arts (charity) Snape Maltings Concert Hall and music campus site, on the banks of the Alde Estuary, in a non arts capacity, but absorbing the creative vibes. Also at the Aldeburgh Cinema Trust box office. *******I have a small secondhand and new bookselling unit in a shared shop in Hay on Wye, at Clock Tower Books. Books have always inspired :) *******Please note: My photographic and 2D artwork is available to buy here as open edition prints on photo paper at small size. Please contact me via my Instagram if you have queries.
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