STICKS: a sculptural installation exploring concepts of the contemporary pilgrimage, Solo Exhibition, 201 Telephone Box Gallery, Strathkinness, Fife

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Abstract

Exhibition Dates: 30 June - 4 August 2024

Exhibition Venue: 201 Telephone Box Gallery, Strathkinness, Fife

STICKS: 201 Telephone Box Gallery, Strathkinness, Fife curated by Lada Wilson

In walking, there is an escape, a finding, a peace. Looking towards the rolling hills of Fife, I am filled with a yearning to walk – a walk away from the here to the over-there.
The 'tele' of telephone finds its meaning in the far, far off - operating over distance. This place of the far off is reached in the imagination and through a continuous meandering that leads away from oneself accompanied by the walker’s ‘familiar’ – the stick. Evoking this elemental prop in this installation at first sight suggests a usefulness, but in reality, not quite. Sticks are objects that prop up the body in motion yet these 'sticks' are in stasis, at rest, inside, waiting patiently to be taken outside like a dog needing a walk. 
 Accentuating the form of the seven handles hints at a vocabulary of sticks from the stature of the medieval pilgrim’s staff (as prop and protection), to a curved crook for crooked elderly body, or a bishop’s crozier, and to the contemporary hillwalker’s carbon fibre hiking pole. Materially, 'Sticks' remains in its raw wood state, humble and consciously undecorated. Sited in a private/public setting of the iconic K6 red telephone box designed by George Gilbert Scott (1936) and now an adapted and reused micro-art gallery in the heart of a local rural community, 'Sticks' temporarily occupies this partly enclosed, but partly exposed telephone kiosk to become a shrine for sticks, an homage to walking and a marker on the pilgrim’s way.

'Sticks' is a continuation of an expanded spatial practice through sculpture, installation and drawing used as a research method to reinterpret the interior, thereby examining the rich narrative and conceptual possibilities they have to offer.

Exhibition opens Sunday 30th June to Sunday 4th August accompanied by an artist talk on Sunday 21 July, Strathkinness Communty Hall at 3pm
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationStrathkinness, Fife
Publisher201 Telephone Box Gallery
Media of outputOther
Size2m x 0.5m x 0.5m
Publication statusPublished - 2024
EventSTICKS: a sculptural installation exploring the contemporary pilgrimage - 201 Telephone Box Gallery, Strathkinness, Fife, Starthkinness, Fife, United Kingdom
Duration: 30 Jun 20244 Aug 2024

Keywords

  • pilgrimage
  • expanded practice
  • interiority
  • installation
  • sculpture
  • community

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