Comments on: Coming over all ‘Yorkshire’

By: Alison

Alison — Sun, 02 May 2010 16:44:58 +0000

Hi Jennifer
Like Paul, I am intrigued by your statement that rock is not inert! You are saying that it is responsive in some way…. Do you mean that literally or from an artistic sense? I would love to hear more!

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:16:12 +0000

You make a very interesting point Jennifer. People often ponder on the outputs and ‘is it art?’ One easy way to address the issue is to say ‘tell me about the process that lead to the output’ and if you can see that obsessive endeavour, the likelihood is it is art. The room with the sketchbooks and maquettes at the Peter Randall-Page exhibition is awe inspiring.

As for rock not being inert, I now have a wonderful image of it moving round your studio during the night!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:19:10 +0000

I was ‘comforted’ to see a connection too – between the Peter Randall-Page pieces at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park – but with the work of Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska and Gill at the Wild Thing exhibition at the RA. It was to do with method, an extraordinary attention to detail and obsessive endeavour for accuracy in conveying ideas in a material form. And again it all had to do with maths and patterns. Grids and graphs drawn out for scaling up and getting proportions right and of looking deeply and intensely.

It is ‘reassuring’ in the best possible way, because it connects all artists, the best and the beginners, all engaging in lots of little acts, which added together amount to craftsmanship, artistry, ability and ’stunningness’.

(Enjoyed your Yorkshireness, but have to take issue – I don’t believe rock is inert!)

By: Kate Wells

Kate Wells — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:12:15 +0000

This article creates a link which accurately describes the same recognition and familiarity found in viewing both exhibitions – especially if seen in close proximity to one another. Why the word ‘reassurance’ comes to mind – I’m not sure if that implies ’safe’ art – suggests what Alison points out, that the work is related to our own underlying code, innate to our own natural system within.
Both worth visiting. Both lift the spirits.
(Were the pineapple and cauliflower researched/consumed in the sake of art? Try Romanesco Cauliflower – even more spirals!!