FISHBOURNE RESIDENCY

In 2001 I was part of a Residency at Fishbourne Roman Palace, near Chichester as part of the Arts Council’s Year of the Artist initiative. The Residency ended with an exhibition called Tracing Time.

During the time I was at Fishbourne I explored the notion of Time in three different ways.

  1. Through the of time. I asked the some of the many schoolchildren who visited the site to walk through some mud onto a piece of paper and these marks built up to symbolise the ‘earth beneath’ their feet - time past. I also asked them to draw onto another piece of paper and there again the marks built up to symbolise the present. I made these marks into a series of lithographs.

  2. My final piece of research was inspired by the shadows of trees on the fence which surrounded the garden. A fragment of a mural had been found at The Roman Palace suggesting that there had been some tromp l’oeil of a garden. I made a number of drawings on this subject.

  3. Archaeology relies on the depth at which artefacts are found and coins are a particularly find. They often display a date or the head of an Emperor. I made drawings from both the collection at Fishbourne and also in the British Museum which represented all the Roman Emperors who reigned during significant times ithe life of Fishbourne Palace.

WORKING WITH SCHOOL CHILDREN

Creating the Present

Creating the Past

Time - Fishbourne Lithograph 2001

TROMPE L’OEIL

COIN HEADS AND BOXES

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