installation shot at WISE

Here's an installation shot of the video work that was shown on the big screen in the WISE lecture theatre.

Over the 6 days that this exhibition was on we welcomed 450 people into this beautiful space. We had great feedback from staff and visitors at CAT, it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience.

Two small digital collages are still on show at MOMA Wales in Machynlleth.

more exhibition images

This is a small sculptural work that I (Bridget) made for the CAT exhibition. It displays the animation that I screened at the Blacksmith's Shop in Allenheads on a very small screen inside a spar box that I made with minerals local to the North Pennines.

Views From Inside The Wise Building

A few shots of our digital collages in situ at the WISE Lecture Theatre...

Podcast from The Quarry

During our exhibition at The Centre for Alternative Technology (or 'The Quarry' as it is sometimes called) we were interviewed by Claire Bracegirdle about the experience of working there and the effect it has had on our art practice. Click on the link below to listen to the podcast...

http://blog.cat.org.uk/2011/10/27/thursday-podcast-interview-with-mair-hughes-and-bridget-kennedy-artists-in-residence/

Scientific Stranger Exhibition Opens

Preview: Sunday 23rd 5pm - 7pm

Closing Event: Friday 28th 5pm - 7pm

WISE Lecture Theatre, Centre for Alternative Technology, nr. Machynlleth, Powys

Refreshments provided

All welcome

Entry free during Preview and Closing Event but at other times CAT entry fees apply

Exhibition runs from 24th -30th October, 10-4 pm

Artists Bridget Kennedy and Mair Hughes are exhibiting a series of large-scale digital collages and a video animated mineral 'spa box', inspired by their research in to radical experiments that have taken place in Mid Wales and North East England. It is the first exhibition to take place inside the beautiful rammed earth lecture theatre in the WISE building at The Centre for Alternative Technology, opening with a preview on Sunday the 23^rd from 5 - 7pm.

The artworks Bridget and Mair have created reflect their encounters with Ecology, Geology, Phrenology, Futurology and some very unusual social engineering initiatives. Their artistic research has found them exploring a North Pennine lead mine, helping to disassemble a wind turbine at the Centre for Alternative Technology and rummaging in the Newtown archives of industrialist turned social reformer, Robert Owen.

Reinterpreting progressive and utopian ideas from the time of the industrial revolution such as communitarianism and educational reform, the two artists look for parallels to what is happening today, as we envisage another big societal shift, this time towards a less exploitative future.

A keen player

Last week I spent some time with Phil Ogg (a friend and collaborator) recording the Glass Alphabet.

This is me with Max (Phil's son), Phil told me that the Glass Alphabet had certainly made an impression on him because the other night Max brought out some wine glasses and initiated a glass jamming session.

I'm hoping to use the sounds of the glasses as a sound track for another version of the animation I made for the Blacksmith's Shop.

Mair and I are in full swing getting ready for the show at CAT at the end of October. It will be part of Powys Art Month, check out the link at the side if you want to know more about it. Our work will be opening in the WISE building at CAT on Sun October 23rd, preview: 5-7pm, usual opening hours 10am - 5:30pm.

We will also be showing some work at the Museum of Modern Art Wales (MOMA Wales) between the 26th October and the 19th November.

So back to work.....

Heritage Open Days exhibition

Our exhibition "Scientific Stranger" took place over four days in September (8th/9th/10th/11th) as part of Heritage Open Days.

We installed two projection works in the Blacksmith's Shop in Allenheads and received 57 visitors over the four day period.

It was the first public showing of the first works we have produced for exhibition in this project. We spent the four days discussing the works amongst ourselves and with visitors. The more time we spent in it, the more the Blacksmith's Shop seemed to be a very fitting place to site the works as themes of making, construction and planning emerged from these discussions.