Lockdown Archive Artist Residency
Using visual methods to enable access & share archive stories during the United Kingdom COVID-19 lockdown emergency.
Artist in Residence
University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, 2020
Originally intended as a University Archive artist residency, the concept was for a creative practitioner to have private use of the archive space & resources one day a week. Interacting directly with the University history, the brief was to create content ready for the #Archive30 social media campaign. As the United Kingdom COVID-19 lockdown isolated myself & University staff from the archive resources. The project expanded to include records emerging from international archival institutions. The plan was to seek new knowledge and showcase the results to the student communities for educational purposes.
The annual #Archive30 campaign is respected by multiple museum & archive institutions located through-out the United Kingdom (and internationally). Collectively, they post content via twitter using #archive30, loosely related to a daily theme. The records cover an extraordinarily large number of unexpected themes, reveal hidden stories pertaining to the widest variety of subjects. These resources are available for public access, and can support your academic visual / written research projects.
Art collection highlights:
(More highlights soon).
The residency evolved into multiple drawing chains. Initial drawings created using the record were as close to the fixed information held. Liberal mark making was introduced while drawing from the drawing, to create potential new narratives.
