Farm Archive.
2007 -ongoing
Begun during my MA at the Royal College, Farm Archive contains many sculptures, drawings, paintings, prints, rubbings and collages. All representing the improvised tools and architectures, created mostly by my Dad, for use on the family farm. The archive has its own system of taxonomies which are idiosyncratic – Round things, Long things and Hold in the hand things, for example. This diagram attempts to outline the connections and makes sense of the archives contents.
Previously it has been shown as an installation with viewers invited to interact and explore the collections. The collection remains complete and is ever growing, recently being gifted to The Museum of English Rural Life at Reading University. Importantly, unlike the collections at The MERL, Farm Archive does not hold any original tools, technologies or architectures. They instead remain in use – changing and being adapted as needed.
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Cumbria.
1992
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Ball bearings for Glaciers.
2007
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Watermark.
2017
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Its somewhere between where we’ve come from and where we’re going.
2017
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Croft Farm. Lincolnshire.
2006-07
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Artist Investigator.
2018 - ongoing
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Art history: do you want me to draw you a diagram?
2019
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You hovered and brooded over the face of the waters.
2020
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Patience is no longer the answer
2014
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Maybe, if only?
2012
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Re:place.
2009
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Ordinary subjects which in their ordinariness are extraordinarily representative.
2018
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The state of us.
2020
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Museum of Contemporary Farming / You complete me
2017/18
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Hide and Hook
2012
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Instar
2020
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Stilled Lives
2020
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Let it go
2008–ongoing
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Landscapes the same all over the world.
2006 - 2008
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I sleep in the bed I was born in.
2021
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Kate Genever film
2021
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Improvised seat.
2007
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Wanna meet me halfway?
2021
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HOMELANDS
2021/22
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Truth waits in all things.
2022
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Locating the Self, Welcoming the Other
2022
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Come bring all the pieces of your heart and sit with us
2017