tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43647975198080456802024-03-13T17:20:42.183+00:00CATCHWATERWelcome to Catchwater where I'm documenting the development of ideas and working processes during my residency as visual artist in the South Pennine Watershed during 2011. I'll be taking a close look at Water and the fascinating moorland architecture associated with capturing it - Angie Rogers.ANGIE ROGERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155987237090403840noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364797519808045680.post-87973566167398438342012-01-17T13:10:00.001+00:002012-01-17T13:12:14.876+00:00Inspired By Landscape II - The End? ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The exhibition at Cliffe Castle finished on Sunday and was deinstalled yesterday.<br />
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Watershed has dominated my life for the past 12 months and its sad to think my time on the project has come to an end. Its been a fascinating and exciting year. I've met and worked with lots of great people, visited even more reservoirs than usual and observed a whole new world of wild life. <br />
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Its all been lovely and special highlights include my tour around the interior of Leeming Reservoir Valve Tower, drawing in the calm haven of Machpelah Mill, seeing a curlew's nest with eggs on High Brown Knoll, photographing a Golden Plover on Wadsworth Moor, searching for the elusive Twite, all the glorious walks along the tops and splendid days out with the Outdoor Art Group. Thank you to all who have taken part or helped me to achieve my goal of encouraging more people to access and enjoy our upland environment of water and moor. <br />
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Artist/Photographer Simon Warner is taking over as Watershed Artist in Residence and I'm looking forward to connecting to his soon to be announced blog about the project. In the meantime here are a few last pictures of the display cases at Keighley including the black and white woodcut prints that were produced by students from Titus Salt School. </div>
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I've decided to show the participants some unfinished work that's related to the Watershed Project - specifically on the theme of The Enfolding Landscape and the idea of revealing the hidden. I'm creating a series of mini booklets based on the Turkish Map Fold.<br />
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I've been told to expect up to 23 participants so will have my work cut out helping them all to get to grips with the folding scheme.</div>ANGIE ROGERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155987237090403840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364797519808045680.post-50353385350517892802011-10-09T23:55:00.000+01:002011-10-09T23:55:08.243+01:00Towers of Silence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2Nq5-SyHXUI/TpIhSkUvl8I/AAAAAAAABCg/A0btbyQhAcE/s1600/Angie-Rogers-giant-charcoal-drawings.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2Nq5-SyHXUI/TpIhSkUvl8I/AAAAAAAABCg/A0btbyQhAcE/s1600/Angie-Rogers-giant-charcoal-drawings.jpg" /></a></div>Here I am in the big basement room at Machpelah Mill with the 3 towers just before I took them down for transporting to Cliffe Castle for the exhibition. I used the self-timer on my camera for this shot as I did want one photo of me with them in that space.<br />
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I absolutely loved working down at Machpelah, the atmosphere of the room was so benign, peaceful and conducive to intense concentration. The silence was very calming and I already miss being in that space now I've moved out and given the key back. The best thing was the quality of the light especially in the late afternoon when the sunlight spilled off the canal, through the windows and onto the walls. I've written about this in my other blog <a href="http://www.tumblinghills.com/2011/08/dancing-light-at-machpelah.html">Tumbling Hills</a>.<br />
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It was purely a happy coincidence that this aspect of the room related so well to my ideas about projecting video of moving reservoir water onto the valve towers for the exhibition.<br />
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Below are two of my favourite photos taken during the 5 week drawing process.<br />
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Well thats it, the artwork is all installed and everything is out of my hands now. Tomorrow, Saturday, sees the opening of the Inspired By Landscape II exhibition at Cliffe Castle, Keighley from 2 pm till 4pm.<br />
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Here's a photo of the entrance to the edifice that is Cliffe Castle, I love the tower and wish it were possible to go up to the top floor where there must surely be the ghost of the mad woman in the attic, a sinister monk, giant moths, or at the very least a flock of blood-sucking bats?<br />
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Owing to a broken car, I'll be travelling over to Keighley on the scenic 500 bus again tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it as there'll be a merry throng of friends from Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd on the same trip. We just need a bit of sun to light up the glowing autumnal rushes along the moor road over to Oxenhope and illuminate Leeshaw and Leeming reservoirs as we pass. Because thats what my exhibition work is all about. </div>
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Not sure if it was the right decision to avoid showing any photos of the big drawings here until after the Exhibition Preview but I do so want their size and monumentalism to have maximum impact at the show. I like a surprise every once in a while and hope the people who've been following this blog and who are coming to Cliffe Castle on Saturday will feel it was worth the wait.<br />
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The drawings are being exhibited with an extra added element I haven't mentioned here at all. This is something completely new to me and involves equipment, other people's expertise and much that is beyond my immediate control so at this point I don't know for sure it will all come off. I believe the drawings are strong enough to stand on their own but really hope the other bit can happen because it should transform and animate the whole exhibition.</div>
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Last Friday I went down to Machpelah Mill early, took down my 3 big drawings and rolled them up.<br />
It took over 2 tense hours as I was working on my own and had to think through every move to avoid doing anything to damage the paper. The evening before I'd given them all a huge final spraying of fixative and the room still stank of chemicals.<br />
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It felt weird rolling up the drawings and making them disappear, they've been such a presence in the room over the past 5 weeks and it hardly seemed credible all that work could be reduced to this insignificant looking parcel with its lop sided masking tape carrying handles.<br />
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My friend and colleague Chris Herbert gave me a lift to Cliffe Castle in her camper van. The drawing roll travelled in style - luxuriating on the fully extended bed and arriving at the gallery in perfect condition.</div>
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The installation date had been put back until today, so this morning it was the Keighley bus for me, the 500 which goes up over Oxenhope Moor and via Haworth. The moor looked delightful in the early morning sun and it was good to reacquaint myself with the uplands after weeks of grafting indoors.</div>
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At Cliffe Castle not everything went to plan and although the big drawings are now up there's still a lot to do in a very short time. I've got to go back on Thursday to review things.</div>
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Last week was taken up with an all out effort to finish the reverse side of my book 'Watershed Journey'.<br />
Originally the book was conceived in terms of having a blank back side so to speak, or to be more honest I just hadn't really thought about the back.<br />
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The whole thing was an experiment, which might have gone wrong at any stage and in fact at one point I got stuck and had to cut off two pages! So it was a surprise to find myself using this work for the exhibition invite card.<br />
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Then we decided to display the book on a plinth, to be viewed from all sides, so I knew I had to continue the journey on the reverse. These photos show various stages in the making. Temporarily I blu tack the collage pieces into position, thus allowing for changes of mind as things go on. When I'm happy with the relationship between all the images I laboriously peel it all off page by page and glue permanently. Quite a fiddly process, and sometimes a page gets a last minute reorganisation.<br />
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Arranged in a circle the book form becomes a whirlpool of energy. I vowed I'd never make another of these as it took so much time and effort, but I'm already thinking about where I could take it next.</div>ANGIE ROGERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155987237090403840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364797519808045680.post-13641305281128708842011-08-31T22:54:00.000+01:002011-08-31T22:54:30.562+01:00The Enfolding Landscape - Double-sided flag book<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">At last The Enfolding Landscape is finished. The photo doesn't do it justice, hopeless lighting, scruffy floor and no time to set up a nice shot but I guess the furniture gives a sense of scale.<br />
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At the Cliffe Castle exhibition it will stand on its own plinth with a perspex lid. I wanted it to be bare naked on the plinth but the curators think it will be too vulnerable because Cliffe Castle is visited by large numbers of young children.<br />
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I've finished the second of my 3 giant charcoal drawings and here's a couple of close-up photos to show texture detail. Can you guess what they are yet?<br />
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There's now less than 3 weeks before the work must be completed. I have to take all the exhibition work to Cliffe Castle, Keighley on 12th September so they can have 2 weeks to organise the hanging for the preview which is taking place on Saturday 24th September.<br />
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It all feels too scarily close, so tomorrow I'm straight on to starting the third drawing. The giant sheet of paper is already fixed up and ready to go.<br />
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My space at Brooklyn Studios in Hebden Bridge is too small for doing these drawings so Trevor Smith the owner of Machpelah Mill has very kindly agreed to let me use the large basement room there. The windows look out onto the canal and its very peaceful, which is just as well as I'm starting to feel the strain of my deadline... </div>ANGIE ROGERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155987237090403840noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364797519808045680.post-10183944448310225082011-08-18T08:31:00.000+01:002011-08-18T08:31:35.736+01:00Extended Flag Book<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I'm alternating days now between the giant drawings and the extended flag book. Yesterday I collated all the dried print sheets, folded the spine pieces and cut out all the 'flags', having devised a system for cutting multi sheets at a time (basically using a lot of bulldog clips!) I don't use a guillotine and prefer a long steel rule and a very sharp knife for greater accuracy. The day just flew past.<br />
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Couldn't bear to go home without doing a quick blu tack temporary assembly of the spines and a few of the flags to get an idea of how its going to work out. The book is so long the only place I can work on it is the hard concrete floor of the gallery at Brooklyn Studios. My knees and back are not very happy as you can imagine. For some reason this photo makes me think of salamanders or dragons. Salamanders, being amphibians, can live in water and on land so the association is quite apt as my book is all about the interconnection of land and water on the uplands.<br />
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The print drying rack is almost full with A2 woodcuts of reservoir water, ready for cutting and folding.</div>ANGIE ROGERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155987237090403840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364797519808045680.post-17517050799019333972011-08-09T12:28:00.001+01:002011-08-26T22:05:44.336+01:00Large scale drawings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Ever since hearing that I'd been awarded the year 2 Watershed residency I knew I wanted to take the opportunity to stretch and challenge myself, especially when I realised how large the exhibition space is at Cliffe Castle. Consequently I'm having to think big. <br />
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Three new A2 blocks needed to be cut, each 60 cm long and 42 cm tall, featuring the cotton grass and two versions of rippling water. The birch plywood blocks are considerably harder than the Japanese ply but I like the crisp lines you can get in this surface.<br />
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Anyway it was a mammoth cutting job with lots of areas that needed to be completely cleared and I had aching arms, wrists and fingers for days. In the photos you can see where I've painted the design onto the block as my guide for cutting. Sometimes you can't stop the gouge from carving deeper down into the layers than is necessary, so the block looks a bit rough, but none of that will show in the print.<br />
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I realised that I had seriously underestimated the number of prints I will need to pull. Including the covers and all the flag 'pages' I will have to ink up and print the A2 blocks 84 times!<br />
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On Monday and Tuesday I printed all the cotton grass ones on one side, using black ink. Here they are in the drying rack with part of the ornate converted mangle press peeping through behind. The oil-based ink I like best takes a few days to dry.<br />
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On Wednesday I started printing the water and today I wanted to complete that part so I've needed to work really hard to print 31 sides - all day, hour after hour, inking and printing. Its amazing how much ink you need to cover A2. I forgot my camera so can't show you but the print rack is full of lovely bluey grey sheets now.<br />
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On Monday if I can face it I'll print the reverse side of all 22 cotton grass pages. Then the printing will be over and it'll be long sessions of folding, cutting and gluing. At this stage its easy to lose sight of what you're trying to achieve, and to feel a bit overwhelmed by the drudgery but hopefully I'll have the stamina to get to the end.<br />
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Here we are on Widdop Dam at the start of a wonderful Sunday of drawing, photography, poetry and sound recording for the inaugural trip of the newly formed Outdoor Art Group. <br />
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The heroic 906 bus brought us up from Hebden Bridge on a switchback ride through Heptonstall and Slack, along the tops and round a couple of hairpin bends, to get us in the mood for shaking off any preconceived ideas about a sedate Sunday stroll.<br />
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Soon enough we were bounding down the rushy north bank, organising base camp under the trees and setting to with cameras, pencils and the occasional quill pen made on the spot from moulted feathers the Canada geese had kindly left for us.<br />
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Despite never having done anything like it before, the students quickly grasped the idea and ran away with it. After getting their heads round the need for reversing the image and thinking in negative/positive, it was heads down for some solid concentrated gouging. Then the really fun bit, when the ink goes on for the first time and the image is revealed.<br />
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The resulting prints are fantastic and perfectly capture the mood of our day at Widdop, so well done all!ANGIE ROGERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155987237090403840noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364797519808045680.post-5454106016494945822011-07-18T23:25:00.000+01:002011-07-18T23:25:13.563+01:00Watershed JourneySince the beginning of April I've been working on a concertina book called Watershed Journey. Its one of those works that for one reason or another is taking a long time to complete. There have been times when I've felt stuck and I had to cut 2 pages off after spending a week trying to make them right. <br />
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I'm using collaged prints, a combination of Woodcut, monoprint and engraved surface print. The original plan was to make use of a large collection of offcuts and oddments from previous printing sessions but in the end I've had to make some specific prints and so the offcut pile is growing and changing.<br />
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So far I've done 12 pages but now I've realised I need to work on the reverse side of the concertina so the book can be displayed standing up and be viewed from both sides. And so the journey goes on.<br />
These pages are from the start where the emphasis is on winter colours and textures up on the high moor.<br />
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</div>ANGIE ROGERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155987237090403840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364797519808045680.post-39624843447898408082011-07-16T18:58:00.000+01:002011-07-16T18:58:09.898+01:00Studio work in progress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gus7MCAfnok/TiG_ZnfkuYI/AAAAAAAAA8w/0Rm0ygWw8OE/s1600/STUDIO-WALL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gus7MCAfnok/TiG_ZnfkuYI/AAAAAAAAA8w/0Rm0ygWw8OE/s1600/STUDIO-WALL.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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This is a selection of Watershed images I've got up on my studio wall for inspiration, mainly photographs with a couple of quick sketches and a cyanotype of Widdop water. <br />
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I'm still looking for a solution to the problem of how to convey a sense of the conduits winding across the moors. I guess I may have to settle for the Enfolding Landscape sculptural book representing both the reservoirs and the conduits. See post dated 10th June for photos of the artwork.<br />
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I've got so many ideas for work celebrating this landscape but time seems to be running out as everything must be completed by the beginning of September for the exhibition at Cliffe Castle. The main thing about the space at Cliffe Castle is that its huge and anything small will be lost.<br />
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I'm going to remake the Enfolding Landscape book - it will be twice as long and twice as tall, and be double sided with printing on both sides of the paper so there's no blank areas. This means it can be displayed on a low plinth and be viewed from any angle. I'll have to cut new, larger blocks and print about 30 sheets of A2 on both sides; so a major undertaking. I do feel slightly daunted by the physical effort required but know it'll be worth it if I succeed. I'm really excited by this new development in my work, the 3D print, getting away from flatness.<br />
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Another area of experiment continues to be using the router for engraved marks on paper as I love the tactile result. Here's a kind of sampler page from my sketchbook:<br />
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I'm wondering if I can include this kind of mark making in an extended flag book, either instead of woodcut printing or alongside it. I'm not sure I can achieve this in time for the September exhibition as I've already set myself another huge goal that I've not even mentioned here yet!<br />
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Technically speaking I'm Watershed artist in residence from April 2011 until April 2012, and it seems strange to have the exhibition this early on. I'll carry on producing work long after the exhibition goes up at Cliffe Castle.ANGIE ROGERShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02155987237090403840noreply@blogger.com0