Val Gedge art

This year, there are only eight  people completing their MA in Fine Art. We have worked  well together  and curated our own interim exhibition at The Birley  Gallery Preston.

I decided on two  pieces of art

As I  walk I have been struck  by the number of fields which have filled with houses. Places where children used to play and footpaths  we used to use have disappeared under buildings. We are loosing  our connection with nature.

The image  is made up of multiple photographs of fences or barriers collaged in procreate to create  a new image then printed using four layers  with two printed on one side of Kozo 24gm and two on the other making the paper into a print sandwich.

This is hung using pine brackets, which have been burnt they are held together  using magnets, then hung on fishing wire. I hung them so the light from the window shone through, I also wanted  people  to walk around  the back of the prints.

As I walked , I collected objects  from under the hedges. It feels like the hedges are creating their own archives. I therefore  created ceramic containers that document these archives, making  mans influence  on nature more obvious  by printing  with these objects  on the outside  of the containers.

The containers  have been painted using under glaze and then sprayed with clear glaze, leaving  the main body of the clay skin coloured once more, highlighting mans influence on nature.

I have used old found wood to make stands to display  the containers on. The wood is intended to represent the hedges.