tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83658563235080810572024-03-13T01:25:51.543+00:00THE STORY OF BIDEFORD BLACKdiscovering and sharing the story of a unique north devon earth pigment Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086214078586509012noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365856323508081057.post-42789561887437194162015-11-09T19:47:00.000+00:002015-11-09T19:47:21.783+00:00"Suddenly the penny dropped and the clinical room of monochrome images made sense"<b>Forest-of-Dean-based Blogger Rachel Shilston finds that Liberty Smith's documentary film <i>Black Tracks</i> unlocks the secrets of the <i>Bideford Black: The Next Generation</i> exhibition at Burton Art Gallery in Bideford. Thank you Rachel, for this blogpost, which also appears on Rachel's <a href="http://www.rachelshilston.co.uk/bideford-black#more-1033" target="_blank">blog</a></b><br />
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At some point in the last few months, they’ve all had a generous covering of Bideford Black. For those of you who have not come across Bideford Black before, it is a raw material found on the cliffs around the north Devonshire town of Bideford and boy is it black. It is a dirty, filthy, dusty, chalky material, which covers anything that comes into contact with it.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Bideford black reminded us of 3 million years. There is nothing quick about the formation of sound' (2015) LittleWhitehead</td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;">I went through a second door and a film was about to start, so I took a seat. It was a documentary capturing the eight artists on their journey over the last twelve months, recording their feelings, responses and reasoning behind their pieces, plus their thoughts about this natural material that had become their new art medium. And it was fascinating. Suddenly the penny dropped and the clinical room of monochrome images made sense. It seems Bideford Black needs to be experienced and handled to really understand the material and that came across in the film. (I was also mildly amused to watch the artists talking with such passion and vigour about their work, process and end products, but oblivious to the random streaks of black across their cheeks or foreheads. It seems Bideford Black likes to leave its mark.) The film explained the link between the mascara wand, the cage fighters and the printing press, something that is not at all apparent as you view the pieces in the exhibition.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;">In this second room, there was also a small area set up for people to experience Bideford Black for themselves. The wall was lined with paper and covered with people’s sketches, doodles, scribbles and drawings made by those who had visited the gallery before me.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"> </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086214078586509012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365856323508081057.post-7847468628786745192015-11-07T19:29:00.000+00:002015-11-25T09:48:28.484+00:00Final week of exhibition: Great new photos<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Here are some fabulous new images of the show by photographer Matt Austin. There is still just about time to catch <i>Bideford Black: The Next Generation </i>before it closes on Friday 13 November.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086214078586509012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365856323508081057.post-36031270277740538542015-11-06T16:19:00.000+00:002015-11-06T16:19:32.594+00:00“…coaxing visual, sonic and olfactory forms from either the physical stuff or the idea of Bideford Black”
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We love <a href="http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/review-of-bideford-black-the-next-generation-burton-art-gallery-and-museum-devon/" target="_blank">this review</a> of <i>Bideford Black: The Next Generation</i> by Lizzie Lloyd in Aesthetica magazine online!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086214078586509012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365856323508081057.post-91612741570539137932015-11-05T12:15:00.000+00:002015-11-25T09:53:43.229+00:00‘Witty, joyous and fun’ or ‘the emperor’s new clothes’? - Last chance to join the discussion!<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16pt;">The <i>Bideford Black: The Next Generation</i> exhibition has got everyone
talking (…and listening and sniffing)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">…And there are just a few days left to see world’s
only Bideford Black diamond!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Seam' (2015) Luce Choules<br />
Photo: Claire Gulliver</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Burton Art Gallery’s own
Emily Paine has perfectly summed up visitors’ reactions to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bideford Black: The Next Generation</i>
exhibition, which runs until 13 November at the gallery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“It’s been a marmite
reaction”, said Emily, “many people think it’s amazing, but some don’t’ like it
at all. Nobody is neutral!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Like the ‘love-it-or-hate it’
spread, the exhibition is certainly polarising opinions. It’s also black and
sticky of course! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But there are just a
few more days to catch the specially-commissioned artworks together in
Bideford Black’s home, alongside film-maker Liberty Smith’s unique and
beautiful film record of these 21st century encounters with Bideford Black
pigment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The next few days are also the
very last chance to see the world’s only Bideford Black diamond in the North
Devon setting which provided its raw material. This tiny sparkling diamond,
which has proved hugely popular with visitors, is on loan from artist duo ATOI for
the duration of this unique show only. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Burton's Warren Collum examines 'Black Diamond' (2015) ATOI (the 'Bideford Black diamond')<br />
Photo: Drew de Rett / Burton Art Gallery</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">From
visitors who have been ‘blown away’ by the show to those who suggest it’s a
case of ‘the emperor’s new clothes’, audiences have not been shy to share their
views. And we thought it would be good to share some of them here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“We love this – the more you look, try, watch,
listen, smell…the better it gets. BRILLIANT!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Liked the dustbins – but no room in them for the
other exhibits!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Became more and more intrigued by this exhibition.
I spent a long time here”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Witty, joyous and fun!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Lots of soot and smudge!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Interesting on a personal level as my grandfather mined
Bideford Black at East-the-Water in the 1930’s. Good to see its modern
application as an art medium”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“My two-and-a-half-year-old grandchild loved the
space and messy black!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'In Equal Measure' (2015) Sam Treadaway<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> “Economic crisis, destruction of the planet’s
ecosystems, and this is the best we can do to entertain!”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Fascinating how angry people get! (might be worth
discussing why…)”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Second visit in two days! – Totally engaging and
immersive experience”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Until 13 November:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Thank you Catherine for writing this review , also published in full on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-mce-href="https://www.a-n.co.uk/reviews/bideford-black-the-next-generation" href="https://www.a-n.co.uk/reviews/bideford-black-the-next-generation" style="color: #1b8be0; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a-n website</a> and <a href="http://www.flowprojects.org.uk/blog" target="_blank">Flow Contemporary Arts </a></div>
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The gallery is a large, square room and as I entered I saw a collection of objects and wall-based work. They were mostly monochrome and the lights were focused on the work leaving areas of the gallery in dusky light. A table by the entrance with feedback forms and a basket of ‘Bideford Black’ rock made me feel welcome, where the work did not initially. I looked for a place to begin and was drawn to the mark-making action on the 5 screens ahead of me. The noise of an artist making repetitive movements overlaid the space with an eery, other-worldly atmosphere.</div>
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This exhibition shows the work by commissioned artists who explored the local pigment ‘Bideford Black’ over the course of a year. Given that there was a year of activity, the exhibition seems at first quite sparse and the artists’ ‘representation’ must have been carefully chosen as I’m guessing that each artist could have used up the whole gallery space. A commissioned filmmaker, Liberty Smith, documented the artists’ exploration and the resulting film is screened in an attached room. Watching this film made all the difference to how I felt about the exhibition. I changed from a rather disengaged (though happy with my stick of rock) visitor to a fully converted fan of the artists and their work. I know that there’s an argument that art shouldn’t have to be ‘explained’ but frankly I reckon it has its place, and its place was most definitely here.</div>
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The accompanying A4 information leaflet acknowledges that visitors may find the exhibition challenging and refers to the work of Joseph Kosuth’ s 1965 ‘One and Three Chairs’ which consisted of a chair, a photograph of a chair and a printed dictionary definition of a chair.</div>
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It states:</div>
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<i style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">Not all of the works you are experiencing here are Bideford Black pigment as found in its natural state. The pigment is more than a medium. We might describe these works as a collection that together provides a three dimensional portrait of the material, seen through the minds of the artists</i>.</div>
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Three-dimensional it certainly is, and more so… I would say four-dimensional and it is these ‘4D’ experiences within the exhibition that meant I left inspired and stimulated. When I sniffed a drum of coal and got a nose-full of perfume I cemented my lasting memory and chosen ‘favourite’ work. Created by Sam Treadaway, who imagined the original scent of the foliage and trees in the Carboniferous period that compacted over millions of years to make the Bideford Black pigment. I loved this. And having already heard about this work in Liberty Smith’s film meant I was open to a zing-ping moment and to viewing Bideford Black in a totally unexpected and exciting way.</div>
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<strong style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold !important; line-height: 1.7;"><a href="http://catherinecartwright.co.uk/" target="_blank">Catherine Cartwright</a> an artist working primarily with printmaking, drawing and film. A director with Double Elephant Print Workshop in Exeter, she is also undertaking her Masters in Multidisciplinary Printmaking at the University of West of England.</strong></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086214078586509012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365856323508081057.post-17812284492012579452015-10-13T14:46:00.001+01:002015-10-21T16:15:18.073+01:00Bideford Black Next Generation - open untl 13th November<style>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Bideford Black: The Next
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Nine new art commissions
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8365856323508081057" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8365856323508081057" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8365856323508081057" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8365856323508081057" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We are receiving some fantastic comments about the exhibition - it really is important to see these works. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Bideford
Black: The Next Generation is the outcome of a year during which nine artists
from across the UK pushed Bideford Black pigment to its physical limits and
asked what the material might mean today. Below is an itroduction to the artworks, but experiencing them is invaluable. The works, as a collection, can be read individually or as a joint narrative. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The film presented by Liberty Smith reviews the research process behind the works. Thirty minutes of footage captures a year and underpins the exhibition.</span></div>
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arresting works from Cornwall-based artist duo ATOI are the result of
re-introducing Bideford Black pigment into charged scenarios, similar to those
which have formed, unformed and transformed it across millennia. Expect to see
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Course 2015 plasterboard, Bideford Black</span><br />
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cast paper forms by Devon-based artist Tabatha Andrews reach out directly to
the senses. Her huge wall assemblage reverses perspective and seeks to visualise
the invisible seam of Bideford Black running underneath the North Devon
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Tool 2015 pebble found on Bideford Bay used to
burnish the drawing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">photo Julian Smith</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Sedimentary Memory 2015 Bideford Black, shellac and
paper </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">photos Julian Smith</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Artist
Luce Choules explored both physical and emotional geography through her experimental
fieldwork. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Luce has developed Seam,
a choreographed exhibition for Bideford Black: The Next Generation. Expect it to change during the exhibtion period. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Corinne Felgate</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></i></span></div>
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man-made and natural environments, artist Corinne Felgate has created a
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A Truce with Time 2015<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Plaster casts and poems</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(Title refers to Mary Stella
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Neville Gabie, Joan Gabie, Ian Cook</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Prompted
by Bideford Black, and using a shared sketchbook, artists Neville Gabie and
Joan Gabie conducted a ‘dialogue of ideas’ with Cultural Geographer Ian Cook
(University of Exeter). Together, the three explored the physical, social and
geological significance of Bideford Black, presenting several films of studio drawings
and artefacts discovered and created along the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Cabinet of Curiosities (several items)</span></span><span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Cut down yard broom for
drawing purposes, pieces of Bideford Black </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">photo by Julian Smith</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial;">DUST</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial;">A set of five films made using Bideford Black.
Edition of 3+1 artists proof </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial;">photo Julian Smith</span></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
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artists Craig Little and Blake Whitehead</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> - were intrigued by the environmental processes that
formed Bideford Black. Ever-elusive, the Scottish duo kept their work under tight
wraps during its development. They made LP records with the pigment, casting it
and playing it. They battled with it to make it give up the secret of its
uniqueness – to share its voice. Listen to the experimental sound recordings of
their raw data – and their surprising conclusion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Bideford black reminded us
of 3 million years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There is nothing quick about the formation of sound 2015 </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Audio, text</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">photo Julian Smith </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Lizzie Ridout</span></span></b></div>
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of Bideford Black. Incorporating her research into the subject, the
Cornwall-based artist has created a printed publication, pieces of which
audience members will be able to take away. She foraged the Burton archive, gathering
tones and marks from the collection to present in a different, delicate way in
the gallery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A Polychromy in Black 2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Set of nine photopolymer
printed tones presented on wall and as a stack</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Series of collaged prints</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sam Treadaway</span></span></b><br />
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scent-based work. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Clearing</i> is the
result of a re-imagining of the origin of the Bideford Black material -
Tree Fern forests of the Carboniferous period - via the medium of smell. Subtle
variations of this scent composition, based on accords of wood, green, earth
and petrichor (produced in collaboration with Clare Rees, Library of Fragrance),
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Film-maker
Liberty Smith documented the Bideford Black: The Next Generation project from
start to finish, as the eleven artists researched and created their work in
studios and on location. Liberty’s film previews exclusively at the Bideford
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managed in association with </span><a href="http://www.flowprojects.org.uk/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Flow Contemporary Arts</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> and </span><a href="http://clairegulliver.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Claire Gulliver</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">. It is supported using public funding by the National
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scents & sounds…….the Bideford Black Next Generation exhibition offers a fresh
perspective on this enduring material. These artists have created distinctive new
works for future generations to enjoy. If you haven’t already done so, catch
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>Bideford Black:
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Burton Art Gallery
and Museum</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">2pm on 3rd October – runs until 13 November</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></b>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span>© </span></i></span>Tabatha
Andrews: </span></i></b><i>Sketch for
Sedimentary Drawing 2015 (detail): A4 paper and Bideford Black</i></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Expect to see, hear, touch, smell something different – videos, sounds,
scents, sculptures, cosmetics and witty feminist poetry about Bideford Black</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This exhibition at the Burton gallery provides a surprising take on a traditional
material. Eleven artists and a film-maker have created new artworks using this
unique black coal - and some of the works will join the gallery’s permanent collection
for future generations to explore, providing a legacy for the art of today.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Valued for its silky texture and pitch black hue, Bideford Black pigment
has historically been used by artists, industries and the military. In next
month’s exhibition, a new generation of artists and users ask questions about
past and present uses of this dark resource.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Bideford Black:
The Next Generation</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> presents </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">a range of sensory, physical, emotional and abstract encounters with
Bideford Black pigment – a dark, sticky substance found in the North Devon
landscape.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> The exhibition is the culmination of a year of exploring and making – a
year in which the artists and film-maker pushed Bideford Black to its physical
limits and thought about what the material might mean today. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">For the first time ever, The Burton has specially commissioned the
artworks for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bideford Black: The Next
Generation</i>, and many of the works will become a new permanent part of the
gallery’s collection.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">A taste of what is being shown:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">ATOI</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> – a large triptych featuring traces of a
Mixed Martial Arts fight with Bideford Black pigment and a synthetic diamond
made from Bideford Black</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Tabatha Andrews</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> – a large, textural wall assemblage made
from cast paper forms made with Bideford Black</span></div>
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photographs of the geology of Greencliff</span></div>
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a prototype Bideford Black mascara</span></div>
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five-screen film installation, a shared sketchbook and found objects</span></div>
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artists’ experiments with LP records made from Bideford Black</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Lizzie Ridout</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> – Printed publications and exquisite tonal
works based on the artists’ research into The Burton’s collections</span></div>
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prehistoric plant-based origins of Bideford Black.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">A documentary film – previewing exclusively at the exhibition – captures
the nine artists as they experiment with Bideford Black pigment and make their
artworks. Made over the course of a year by creative film-maker <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Liberty Smith</b>, the film offers a unique
and beautiful record of these 21st century encounters with Bideford Black
pigment. Liberty went to school in North Devon, close to where Bideford Black
is found in its raw state.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Blog: </span><a href="http://bidefordblack.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">http://bidefordblack.blogspot.co.uk</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/BurtonArtGaller"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Twitter:</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> @burtonartgaller<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#Bidefordblack</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Facebook: </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/The-Burton-Art-Gallery-Museum"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">www.facebook.com/The-Burton-Art-Gallery-Museum</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Warren Collum, Exhibitions and Collections Officer</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
said: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Bideford Black: The Next
Generation</i> is all about linking the industrial heritage of Bideford and its
local pigment with contemporary artists’ research and ideas. This exhibition
will confound audiences’ expectations about what this black earth pigment can
do. It’s almost as if we’d been working with a group of alchemists, scientists
and magicians for a year!” </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Carolyn Black of Flow Contemporary Arts</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">,
who co-produced the project with arts consultant Claire Gulliver, said: “Since
that first day in 2014 when we met all of the artists and viewed the seam
together, until this launch, we’ve been fascinated by how the artists ideas
have evolved from the first expressions of interest. Biddiblack, as locally
known, really has been stretched to its limits. We’re delighted that many of
these artworks will be joining the Burton’s collection permanently.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Phil Gibby, Area Director, South West, Arts Council England</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">,
said: “This is an exciting exhibition of work by some outstanding artists and
with a very special local connection. In the south west we’re justly proud of
both our artists and our local heritage; this project brings both sides
together in a new and surprising way and I’m delighted that we’re supporting
it.” </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Venue Contact Details:<br />
</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">THE
BURTON ART GALLERY & MUSEUM, Kingsley Road, Bideford EX39 2QQ<br />
(e) <u><span style="color: blue;">burtonartgallery@torridge.gov.uk</span></u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(t) 01237 471455 (w) </span><a href="http://www.burtonartgallery.co.uk/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">www.burtonartgallery.co.uk</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div>
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October – runs until 13 November </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Opening Hours:</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Monday - Saturday,
10am - 4pm.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sunday 10.30am -
4pm.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Associated Events:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white;">Talk and
Tour, 3 October, 2pm</span></b><br />
<span style="background: white;">Carolyn Black, Claire Gulliver, Project Managers
and Warren Collum, Exhibition and Collections Officer, opens the exhibition
with an informal talk at the Preview.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Monotyping using Bideford Black with Grizel
Luttman-Johnson</span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white;">Saturday
24 October 10am-4pm</span></b><br />
<span style="background: white;">Making one-off prints by drawing on paper laid
over plates inked with Bideford Black pigment in an oil based medium.</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LidJP3-yZ3M/VerqG-C4BcI/AAAAAAAAAg8/3aXbcjDb48k/s1600/thumb_IMG_0418_1024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LidJP3-yZ3M/VerqG-C4BcI/AAAAAAAAAg8/3aXbcjDb48k/s320/thumb_IMG_0418_1024.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ATOI and Anita Bolton unveil the Bideford Black synthetic diamond. Photo: Claire Gulliver</td></tr>
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At times it felt like
being an extra in a James Bond film. This week offered the first glimpses of a
unique synthetic diamond made entirely from Bideford Black. Conceived by artist
duo ATOI and created with the help of a specialist manufacturer, the diamond
was delivered in person to Burton Art Gallery, Bideford as part of a surreal
and surprising Wednesday.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking the Bideford Black synthetic diamond to Greencliff. Photo: ATOI</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A day that began with
excitement, anticipation and thank-you flowers for the manufacturer and sponsor of ATOI (whose company name will be revealed shortly), became bizarre and fantastic as
the artists and diamond manufacturer decided to take the diamond to Greencliff on the North Devon coast,
where the raw Bideford Black pigment is found.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ATOI's synthetic diamond made from Bideford Black will be one of the works on show as part of the <i>Bideford Black: The Next Generation</i> exhibition at Burton Art Gallery, Bideford, Devon. Produced by Flow Contemporary Arts in association with Claire Gulliver.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">Exhibition opens 3 October.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">Posted by Claire Gulliver</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Bideford Black: The Next Generation</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">exhibition</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">3<sup>rd</sup> October to 13<sup>th</sup> November
2015</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bideford Black: The Next Generation </i>- <a href="https://youtu.be/A56DMcmTzcs" target="_blank">watch the trailer now</a> <b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: grey; font-family: "PT Sans","sans-serif";"></span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span>to get a taste of what is
coming to the Burton Art Gallery this autumn.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">On Saturday October
3<sup>rd</sup> the Burton Gallery in Bideford, Devon, opens its doors to a
veritable mine of newly commissioned artworks, all responding to the local
pigment known as Bideford Black. Be prepared to awaken all of your senses –
sound, scent and touch are all present to provide a rich encounter with this
black, sticky stuff found in the nearby landscape.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Bideford Black: The Next Generation</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> is the outcome of a year of research and
making, during which nine artists from across the UK pushed Bideford Black
pigment to its physical limits and thought about what the material might mean
today. This natural material has historically been used in industry, and by
artists to draw, paint and print with.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This eclectic
exhibition represents the Next Generation of artists to use Bideford Black, and
offers a 21st century response to a pigment that took millions of years to
evolve. These new artworks are made using a myriad of materials – pastels,
paper, film, scents, sounds and machines. What they share in common is that
they all reflect upon, or are made with, Bideford Black pigment. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Creative film-maker
Liberty Smith followed the artists for a year as they researched and developed
their ideas. Liberty’s film will be part of the exhibition and presents a
visually stunning record of these modern encounters with Bideford Black
pigment.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Liberty’s film
trailer offers tantalizing glimpses of what the full length film and the
exhibition will be revealing on the opening weekend. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The full list of
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ATOI </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(Cornwall)</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">, Luce Choules </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(Essex)</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">, Corinne Felgate </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(London)</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">, Neville and Joan Gabie </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(Gloucestershire)</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> in collaboration with Dr. Ian Cook, Littlewhitehead </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(Lanarkshire)</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">, Lizzie Ridout </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(Cornwall)</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">, Sam Treadaway </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(Bristol) </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">and Liberty Smith, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">presently lives
and works in London and went to school in Hartland, North Devon</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">This Burton Art Gallery and Museum project is produced
by Flow Contemporary Arts in association with Claire Gulliver, funded by the
National Lottery through Arts Council England as well as the Friends of Burton
Art Gallery and Museum. We also acknowledge the support of the National Trust
for their loan of Bucks Cabin to some of the artists during their
investigations.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The exhibition opens
on Saturday 3<sup>rd</sup> of October and runs until 13<sup>th</sup> November.
There will be associated workshops and events - for more information and
opening times, visit the website: </span><a href="http://www.burtonartgallery.co.uk/">http://www.burtonartgallery.co.uk</a><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Warren Collum</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">, Exhibitions and Collections Officer,
Burton Art Gallery and Museum, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This
project is really exciting for me as it brings together the two key aspects of
the Burton, local heritage and art. The film is integral to the project as a
document and as a work of art in its own right. Getting to the point of
releasing the trailer is a real milestone providing a fascinating and
intriguing insight into what’s to come</i>.”</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Download still images <a href="http://bidefordblack.blogspot.co.uk/p/image-download-area.html" target="_blank">here</a> - please be sure to credit Liberty Smith </span></b></div>
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BURTON ART GALLERY & MUSEUM, Kingsley Road, Bideford EX39 2QQ<br />
(e) <u><span style="color: blue;">burtonartgallery@torridge.gov.uk</span></u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(t) 01237 471455 (w) <a href="http://www.burtonartgallery.co.uk/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">www.burtonartgallery.co.uk</span></a></span></div>
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VIEW THE FILM TRAILER FIRST.....</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We don’t want to give too much away at this point, but some
things will be revealed in our fantastic film trailer, which will be released
on 4<sup>th</sup> September on YouTube. In it you will get glimpses of the
wonderful Devon landscape where Bideford Black pigment is found; see the
artists exploring this black stuff in their studios; gain an insight into
processes and thinking to prepare you for viewing the show when it opens.
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<span style="font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The full list of
artists is Tabatha Andrews, ATOI, Luce Choules, Corinne Felgate, Neville and
Joan Gabie in collaboration with Dr. Ian Cook, Littlewhitehead, Lizzie Ridout,
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="TG1111"><span class="TITLEexh"><strong>at <a href="http://www.karst-projects.org/exhibitions.html" target="_blank">KARST </a></strong></span></span><span class="TITLEexh"><span class="namemed11"><em><br /></em></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="exhtitle" style="font-weight: bold;"><strong><strong>TABATHA ANDREWS - with score by John Matthias sung by Victoria Oruwari<br /></strong></strong></span><em>9th - 12th July 2015</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">PRIVATE VIEW Thursday 9th July 6-8 pm<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><span id="yiv5104188766yui_3_16_0_1_1435037886133_288671">7.15pm - Tabatha Andrew in conversation with Victoria Oruwari, John Matthias and Professor Andrew Pickering.</span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086214078586509012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365856323508081057.post-88572218044478640212015-07-08T12:25:00.000+01:002015-07-08T18:35:13.451+01:00Measuring Tanks & Tablecloths at Plymouth Arts Centre<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Last month I caught up with one of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bideford Black: The Next Generation</i>
artists, Lizzie Ridout, at her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tanks and
Tablecloths</i> exhibition at Plymouth Arts Centre.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Tanks and Tablecloths</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> is a long-standing research
collaboration between artists Lizzie Ridout and Elizabeth Masterton. Their
research examines the parallels between military and domestic spheres. In
particular, the artists suggest that the regimentation and control so
fundamental to life in the forces is echoed in the work of the home-maker;
characterised as it is by regularity and repetition in its efforts to keep the
domestic machine running. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For me these ideas inevitably raise questions about
gender and perhaps about futility and necessity, but this exhibition steers
clear of these more predictable themes. And while the parallels between
military and domestic are not an entirely new subject, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tanks and Tablecloths</i> offers a series of original and surprising
dialogues between the two worlds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ridout and Masterton explored the extensive archives
of Devonport Naval Heritage Centre (DNHC), gaining special permission to integrate
historic artefacts alongside their own new works at Plymouth Arts Centre. The
contact with the centre’s volunteers and original objects has given <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tanks and Tablecloths</i> with a warmth and
humanity that complements the pared-down presentation, hovering appealingly somewhere
between community history and the white cube.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Underpinning the exhibition is the idea of
‘measurement’, prompted by the artists’ observation that many of the artefacts
in the naval archives were concerned with establishing consistency and determining
quantity: from mess utensils regulating portion size to systems of recording
damage to both personnel and ships. These artefacts form part of the exhibition
dialogue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ridout and Masterton use the analogy of the mythical
Three Fates to explore the way that a person’s life is divided, measured and
determined by time: The three deities spinning, measuring and in the end
cutting, the thread of life (perhaps like some kind of reverse umbilical clamp).
These three fates shape the exhibition. So, in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clotho</i> (The Spinnner) the wool from a standard issue navy pullover
is disassembled and spun into rope, while a ball of wool from another naval jumper
is wound alongside 940cm of 35mm orthographic film, the content of which (if
any) is, for now, unknown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(The Allotter) the arbitrary (outside the individual’s control) and fragile
nature of life is evoked. The section is anchored by a splendid typewritten
label, found with the historic artefact <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fig
F: Scales</i>: a short piece of old-fashioned museum labelling that reverberates
with almost Shakespearean import in this context: ‘This balance is an accurate
and expensive instrument. It must be treated with great care’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A particularly powerful piece in the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Lachesis</i> section is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fig c The Measure of a Man III [Worth his
Salt/Test His Mettle]</i> (pictured), which comprises the exact quantity of
salt in an average man (350g) placed upon a brass plate. Crystallised by the
artist directly from Plymouth Sound’s naval waters, the work analyses and
reduces life to a quintessence of dust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Moving into <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Atropos</i>
(The Unturning), the mood becomes more menacing. From the naval collection,
huge, brutal cutters for some unimaginable task are immediately jarring and
openly suggestive. A ghostly film loop, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Quercus
Regius: 00:58-01:29 </i>for which the artists blindly (like the Fates)
unravelled, measured and cut thread onto light sensitive film, evokes a
transmission signal lost; a terminal failure of communication. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">From the title of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Quercus
Regius: 00:58-01:29</i> we know that the precise measurement of time is as
significant here as it is elsewhere in the exhibition: The animated duration of
the piece corresponds to that of the sinking of HMS Royal Oak, a warship built
in Plymouth’s Devonport docks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But we don’t know this particular symbolism unless we
read the exhibition leaflet. Ridout and Masterton are interested in how you
tell a story, or give information, without words. Ridout explains: “We didn’t
want captions. We didn’t want people to spend more time reading captions than
looking at the art”. It’s the perennial problem for anyone involved in presenting
contemporary art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a case in point. This piece comprises a 150 broadside sheets, digitally printed
with continuous black lines on 55gsm newsprint. So accustomed are we to a
literal and linear way of thinking, that it seems at first a subtle, quiet
work; a strangely mute newspaper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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scarce local pigment, Bideford Black, to create new artworks examining science,
industry and society. Selected by open call last autumn, the artists’ work will
feature in a special exhibition at the Burton in October 2015 and become part
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086214078586509012noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365856323508081057.post-6118549563890801432015-03-17T18:31:00.000+00:002015-03-17T18:31:15.053+00:00Luce Choules gives a talk at the Burton, one of the 8 new artist commissions for Bideford Black: Next Generation commissions<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21.6363620758057px; margin-bottom: 0.825em; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
In October 2015 the Bideford Black Project opens at the Burton Art Gallery in Bideford. 8 new artist commissions and a brilliant film-maker will reveal their year long research, and it's going to be good.</div>
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One of the artists, Luce Choules, gave a talk at the museum last night, about another project of hers,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.guide74.com" href="http://www.guide74.com/" style="color: #1b8be0; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; text-decoration: none;">Guide74.</a></div>
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Luce spends a lot of time doing fieldwork and her presentation consisted of a series of photographic images accompanied by her reading her own writing, and that by others. All the photos, taken in Chamonix, drew the audience into the place, and allowed us to be there with her as she read. Not crossing the landscape, as Richard Long might do, but immersed in it. There. In contact with the place. Not capturing it, controlling it or using it to frame the artist.</div>
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Luce's performance was gentle, sensitive and most of all compelling. It was as if the landscape was sharing itself through her images and choice of texts. It was laid out for the audience to visually explore, from long shots of mountains, to micro imagery of lichens.</div>
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Luce is an intrepid traveller, she crosses glaciers, sleeps in huddles with others on icey precipices - not my idea of fun at all. But somehow, thinking about the experience, I feel I was there, if only in empathy and imagination.</div>
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If you get a chance to see her performance, please do.</div>
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NOTE: this post was written by Carolyn Black of Flow Contemporary Arts and was first posted on her <a href="http://www.flowprojects.org.uk/blog" target="_blank">blog </a>. Flow Contemporary Arts has been contracted to deliver the project in association with <a href="http://www.clairegulliver.co.uk/" target="_blank">Claire Gulliver</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086214078586509012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365856323508081057.post-2331310115056383172015-02-15T08:51:00.002+00:002015-02-25T10:15:45.799+00:00Bideford Black artist Luce Choules to talk at the Burton on 11th March 2015<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><i>"intellectually invigorating, visually engaging and aesthetically challenging"</i> </span><i style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; text-align: start;">Dr Harriet Hawkins, Director MA Cultural Geography, University of London</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Guide74 is an artist project exploring spatial dynamics in the high mountains using experimental fieldwork. Using a format of photographic image, spoken word and physical objects, Guide74 leads an audience on an expedition to the Alpine regions of France – a journey of many parts exploring ideas of interrelated geographies and events. For more information visit:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.guide74.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.guide74.com</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While this event is not specifically about Luce's commission for the <i>Bideford Black</i> project, it will give a flavour of how she works and thinks. For the Burton project, <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px none; color: #333333; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Luce is developing</span><em style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px none; color: #333333; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23.4px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Seam</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23.4px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> - a scripted large-scale, dynamic photographic installation (conceived as an event throughout the exhibition), and associated items. </span>Find out more about her work<a href="https://lucechoules.wordpress.com/events/" target="_blank"> here.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is a free event, but please book a place by phoning or emailing Burton Art Gallery.</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086214078586509012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365856323508081057.post-83423421729729013082014-11-26T20:48:00.004+00:002015-02-05T16:54:33.734+00:00Next Generation Artists Selected<div class="Normal" style="font-family: '12 Avenir 35 Light&nbsp; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span class="Normal__Char" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">We were delighted by such a high number of applications – all of which were excellent and which made the selection process very difficult. The panel felt that the selected artists went above and beyond the criteria as set out in the brief. We anticipate that their work will provide a fascinating addition to the existing Burton collection and offer a real insight into this distinctive local pigment.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086214078586509012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365856323508081057.post-24778341133896681212014-10-13T12:07:00.000+01:002014-10-13T12:07:42.438+01:00Bideford Black - the new generation + Richard LongWe're grateful for the many applications we received for the artist and film commissions for this project. The selection has finally been made and we will tell you more once the programme begins to take shape.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://clairegulliver.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Claire Gulliver</a> and I (Carolyn Black of <a href="http://www.flowprojects.org.uk/" target="_blank">Flow Contemporary Arts</a>) have been appointed by the Burton to take the Bideford Black project onto another stage. The Next Generation - is not the first
project that the Burton has initiated relating to artists using Bideford
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done by many local artists, including <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WznO5SVXCyU" target="_blank">Peter Ward</a> on this blog, and in his studio too. It's inspirational to see and meet so many artists
who have worked with BB as a medium. The exhibition at <a href="http://Bideford Black - the next generation" target="_blank">White Moose</a> in
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to ACE funding and support from the Friends of the Burton, Claire and I are managing the new commissions on behalf of the art gallery, working closely with Warren Collum. 8 artists and 1 film maker will be selected to stretch this pigment to its limits. Coming from an industrial background, the pigment played a part in the economic foundation of Bideford. We're excited by the possibility that artists can explore new ways of using it. Beauty, fragility, density, darkness, earthiness and stickiness are just some of the qualities it possesses.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086214078586509012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365856323508081057.post-53020671843335444232014-08-01T10:45:00.000+01:002014-08-19T14:41:12.811+01:00 The nature of black: Artist commissions to explore new ways of working with scarce pigment<br />
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film maker will explore new ways of working with a scarce pigment as part of a
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beyond.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The new commissions will
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Bideford area with the use of its local pigment by artists past and present -
commissioning and documenting its creative possibilities. </span><span lang="EN-US">‘Biddiblack’ is the local name for Bideford Black, a coal-like
mineral traditionally prized by artists for pigment and mined at Bideford until
1968. ‘Bideford Black: The Next Generation’ will reinterpret Bideford Black for
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Devon is a black clay-like material that was mined for 200 years in Bideford
for its uses as a strong black pigment. The unique ‘Mineral Black’, or
‘Biddiblack’ as it was known, was commercially produced for applications in the
boat building industry, for colouring rubber products, for camouflage on tanks
in WWII and was even bought by Max Factor for the production of mascara. The
mines were closed in 1968 when the production of cheaper oil-based blacks and
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06086214078586509012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8365856323508081057.post-33886548999526172542014-07-30T22:23:00.001+01:002014-08-19T14:42:08.498+01:00Opportunities for 8 artists and 1 film maker<div class="s4">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">On the 8<sup>th</sup> March 2014 the long awaited, new permanent
Bideford Black display case was finally revealed upstairs at the Burton Art
Gallery & Museum. After an exciting year of research, public engagement and
workshops the Story of Bideford Black team, along with help from Murray Design<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8365856323508081057#_edn1" name="_ednref" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[i]</span></span></a>,
Myriad-UK<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8365856323508081057#_edn2" name="_ednref" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[ii]</span></span></a>
and Kingfisher Multimedia<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8365856323508081057#_edn3" name="_ednref" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;">[iii]</span></span></a>, have
brought together a visually pleasing and informative addition to the already
much respected Bideford museum. Production of the display case has been made
possible by the Friends of the Burton following a bequeathal from the
late Peggy Lines, a long time supporter of the Burton. The Mayor of
Bideford, Simon Inch, Chairman of Torridge District Council, Tony Inch, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #343434; font-family: Calibri;">Pam Biggs, Chair of the Friends of the Burton, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">and Tamsin Daniels of the Heritage Lottery Fund
officially revealed the display case in front of a large gathering of people
connected to Bideford Black and the project. The project has been most
appreciated both as a much-needed document of a locally significant industry
and also as an exciting vehicle to engage young and old with their local
environment and history.</span></span><br />
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of Bideford, Simon Inch, Chairman of Torridge District Council, Tony Inch, and
ex-Bideford Black Miner, Ron Pither, opening the new Story of Bideford Black
permanent display (photo courtesy the Burton Gallery 2014)</span></span><br />
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together by Murray Design, Myriad-UK and Kingfisher multimedia, utilizes
artifacts, images, samples of Bideford Black and material gathered throughout
the project, along with a touch screen audio-visual display holding stories and
images that could not fit in the fixed display. Even as the project was coming
to a close, people were coming forward with more information and artifacts that
could unfortunately not be included. Joyce Webb, whose father had run Manley
Tucker’s Paint Shop in Kingsley Road in the 1950’s and 60’s, offered a pot of
paint from her shed along with some photos of the paint shop. (Unfortunately the
paint turned out to be salmon pink rather than the hoped for Zats Black<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8365856323508081057#_edn4" name="_ednref" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[iv]<!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.)</span></span><br />
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revealed a set of key documents and images about Bideford Black donated to him
by the last owner of the mines, Howard St Louis Cookes in the early 70’s, along
with a shovel used in the mines that has been thankfully included in the
display. The documents – a scrapbook of cuttings and memorabilia including a
technical manual about the machines that ground the pigment at Chapel Park -
were in turn donated to Mr Cookes by the mine’s previous owner in the 1930’s.
Please contact the North Devon Maritime Museum<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8365856323508081057#_edn5" name="_ednref" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[v]<!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">Despite the project officially ending with the completion of the
new display it is sincerely hoped that people will continue to get in touch
with the Burton Art Gallery & Museum if any new information or artifacts come
to light. There is also a learning pack for schools to accompany the display,
created by learning co-ordinator Sadie Green, so that children may continue to
learn more about their local environment and history<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8365856323508081057#_edn6" name="_ednref" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[vi]<!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.
Furthermore, the project has hopefully inspired artists to explore local earth
pigments in their own environment and think more about where the materials they
use comes from – already exhibitions at the Burton Gallery are including more
work using local earth pigments. Along with last summer’s <i>BIDEFORD BLACK 5 artists</i> exhibition at the White Moose Gallery in Barnstaple,
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If anyone does have a tin of Zatz Black, made with Bideford Black, then there
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by Pupils of East the Water
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pete Ward led workshops with these two local schools, with
the aid of Burton
volunteers Ros, Nicole and Mike. The pupils learnt all about The Story of
Bideford Black and met ex-miner, Ron Pither. They asked him questions about
working in the Bideford Black mines and also visited Mines Road in East the Water, to look for
any evidence of the mining industry and to hear Ron’s tales. The pupils then produced paintings about The Story of Bideford
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this special exhibition from 21st September to 21st October. The artworks created were spontaneous pieces, made by
the children’s response to the material and what it feels like to paint with.
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its amazing where research into a subject may take you and the
fascinating sidelines, distractions and personalities that may brighten your
journey (while at the same time tempting you away from your eventual goal). The
Story of Bideford Black Project has been no exception. Nearly every encounter
has been a wonderful gateway to another story, an intriguing aspect of local
history or contemporary politics, or simply a charming addition to the vast
array of personal accounts and memories we have collected along the way –
testament to the rich diversity and interconnectness of our world.
Unfortunately not every detail can be preserved or represented, and the difficult
process of filtering out the superfluous and endearing from the essential
elements of the research, and of deciding what we want to, and can, say within
the always-limited resources of time, space and money that are available have
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One such lead took me to meet local industrial archaeologist and
Bideford railway enthusiast Felton Vowler. Felton has been interested in
gathering information and artifacts about North Devon’s industrial past since
the 1970’s and remembers visiting the ‘Paint Mines’ and gingerly entering the
disused mineshaft at Chapel Park a few years after its closure in 1969. Felton’s
main interest had been in the railway systems associated with the mining
industry, an interest that continues today with his dedicated work as secretary
of the Bideford Heritage Railway<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8365856323508081057#_edn1" name="_ednref" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[i]<!--[endif]--></span></span></a> at Bideford
and Instow Stations on the Tarka Trail. When he was younger Felton had been an
outdoor activities instructor and keen caver and climber. He and a friend had
gone into the mine but quickly left after deeming it far too unsafe. He
remembers seeing two of the old mining trolleys and lengths of railway track
but sadly was unable to retrieve them. They must still be sitting there today!</span></span></div>
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KING COAL... and a Paint Mine too! Parts 1,2,3 an article by Felton Vowler for the
Atlantic Coast Express Magazine issues 58, 59 and 60, 2004 (click image to enlarge)</span></span></div>
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entrance to the mine. The sign instructed operators of the bell code used in
the mines. For the sake of posterity Mr Vowler acquired the sign and took it
home for safekeeping. On meeting with him earlier in the year the whereabouts
of the sign had unfortunately become a bit of a mystery! In the mean time
Felton also vaguely remembered seeing a large enamel BIDDIBLACK sign at the
Milky Way Adventure Park<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8365856323508081057#_edn2" name="_ednref" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[ii]<!--[endif]--></span></span></a> near Clovelly
when the LynBarn Railway was there. Both the Milky Way and present Lynton Railway<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8365856323508081057#_edn3" name="_ednref" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[iii]<!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
at Woody Bay had no recollection of the sign <u>BUT</u> Dave Tooke from Lynton
Railway did have the Bideford Black Pigments Ltd haulage sign that Felton had
lent to him some years earlier! On visiting the Woody Bay site to collect the
sign for the project I was treated to a lovely ride on the railway along with a
chance to look at the lovingly restored steam engines kept there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the new display in its final stages of design and manufacture
the project is still open to any information and artifacts you may have and may
wish to contribute to make it the best representation and reflection of this fascinating
and vital industry to Bideford’s rich and evolving history. It is hoped that the display will
inspire further interest in the subject and provoke more fond memories, and has
thus been designed to allow for further contributions as they arise. We continue
to look forward to hearing from you. So, many thanks to all those who have
generously contributed so freely along the trail and here’s to fascinating
sidelines and distractions, and to the wonder, inquisitiveness and camaraderie
of human nature and to the richness and abundance of the world on which our
livelihood depends! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.lynton-rail.co.uk/">http://www.lynton-rail.co.uk/</a></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bideford Black School Workshops and Exhibition</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">A very important aspect of the Story of Bideford Black Project,
funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund All Our Stories Grant, has been the sharing
of stories across generations, or more simply put - the old miners sharing
their stories with the kids. So, having gathered a great deal of information we
asked two local schools, both situated at significant places along the Bideford
Black seam, to take part in a series of workshops. </span><span lang="EN-US">East the Water Community Primary School on Mines
Road and </span><span lang="EN-US">St Helen’s C of E Primary School,
Abbotsham most kindly agreed. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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Sadie Green 2013)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 4 daylong workshops engaged the children (aged between 9-12
years old) and teachers (ages unknown) with their local history, that is Bideford
Black Mining, through a simple presentation, a Q&A session with ex-miner
Ron Pither and a short walk along Mines Road across Manteo Way to the old mine
site at Chapel Park, looking at any evidence of the industry along the way. The
children were then given a simple demonstration of how to make paint using raw Bideford
Black pigment and then asked to create illustrations of the stories they had
heard earlier using Bideford Black itself. While some children chose to
illustrate of the stories, others simply enjoyed and learnt about the feel of
this very different paint. Some of the pictures would then be used as part of
the final display and shown in a special exhibition of work at the Burton
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As was hoped the children got thoroughly covered in the sooty
black pigment and enjoyed a great day of stories, outdoor activity and
painting. Everyone was surprised at the quality and richness of the paint, how
it often didn’t do quite what they wanted it to, and worked very hard to make
some great pictures. Nearly 400 paintings were made over the four days, East
the Water School continuing the project during the week with further studies –
we were utterly spoilt for choice. Thank you all for working so hard. We hope
you all learnt something too!? The exhibition of paintings will be open to the
public for a month in the Café du Parc at the Burton Art Gallery from 24<sup>th</sup>
September.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The workshops were led by artist Peter Ward and co-ordinated by
Sadie Green with help from Burton Art Gallery volunteers Ros Ford, Mike Hedges
and Nicole Hickin. They were enthusiastically supported by the teachers and
teaching assistants at both schools – many thanks to all. Learning Coordinators
Sadie Green and Julian Vayne have developed further educational material
resulting from the </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">project in the form of a Learning Pack for schools to
accompany the display.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the last few months the project team have been
excited and inspired by the stories of the ex-miners and workers from the
Bideford Black Pigments Ltd, from people who grew up playing around the mines,
as well as from others with incredible knowledge about the local history and
geology surrounding the pigment. From tales of long dirty hours working
underground to practical jokes and games out of sight of the boss (if you were
caught you would be polishing his black Riley sports car!), along with reams of
newspaper cuttings, maps, photographs and fascinating relics acquired from the
derelict mines and complex geochemical papers we are accumulating audio and
video and good-old-fashioned written recordings about the subject. So now to
unravel and assess the material, to arrange and rearrange and compose it all to
reveal a simple and effective means to share <b>The Story of Bideford Black</b> for everyone to enjoy.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f7f7f;">Wally Mugford (ex-foreman), Jimmy Mugford (processing-plant worker) and brother with lorry driver at the mines, holding mining lamps, c.1953.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having brought everything together and chosen the most appropriate parts
to express the essence of this tale, we will next be taking the Story to a few
local schools, along with a specially created Teacher’s pack by Learning
Co-ordinator Sadie Green. 120 children will be treated to a special Bideford
Black day where they will be taken on a walk to look at the few remains of the
mining industry in the town in the company of artist Pete Ward and ex-miners
Gerald Ford and Ron Pither and then invited to paint their interpretations of
the stories using Bideford Black itself. Some of the pictures will then be
displayed in a special exhibition to be held in the Burton Gallery when the new
display is unveiled in October. It’s going to be a busy summer!</span></span></div>
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