Richard Layzell

Lecture and workshop by Richard Layzell
16-18th February

I was particularly interested in:

River Avon mud - move the river paint the town red.
Mud... artist Richard Long also uses mud from the River Avon - its got a really unique quality


Richard Long - River Avon Mud

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Falling Phoebe

A piece made with a series of coincidences, to do with the artist's past, ancestry etc. A friend of the artist falls over in the street in the same place where his great great grandmother fell pregnant with his grandfather. Both women are Phoebe.

This has similarities with my counting works where I mark out historical events with a ritualistic walk, counting out significant numbers intertwined with the people involved.
I am interested in the way we think about history - almost existing outside time, delineated and somewhat mystified. I want to bring the real time back to historic memories and events, placing something back into the same time frame which it happened in. Marking moments as moments, seconds where something happened.

some online info on Richard Layzell
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