Writings and Proposals
For many reasons many of the installations outlined in these
proposals have never been realised and are still seeking a
home. The artists would welcome genuine declarations of interest
from arts agencies, arts facilitators, sponsors, museums,
galleries or individuals who may be able to help to bring
them into being.
Windows |
Outside In
Proposals for the Kendal Windows On Art Exhibition, 2004
I wish to propose several alternative ideas as my possible
contribution to the "Kendal Windows On Art" exhibition,
2004... //Read//
The Brewery
Open Exhibition, 2004
Proposals for my possible contribution to the "Brewery
Open Exhibition". This proposal depends on the availability
of one or both of the large black display cases... //Read//
Towards
a Kurt Schwitters Centre / Museum / the Merz Museum
For the Armitt Trust and Museum, Ambleside, Cumbria
Certain places are imbued with particular resonances due to
the occupancy at one time or another, of remarkable individuals,
cultural shape-shifters whose life and work has inspired and
informed subsequent generations... //Read//
The Grit
in the Oyster
Written for the catalogue of 'Meta Metier (Teaching and Practice)',
a touring exhibition by staff at the Department of Visual
Communication, Glasgow School of Art.
I teach for a variety of reasons. Throughout my generally
unremarkable school days and later whilst at the various art
schools I attended, I was fortunate to come under the wings
of several inspirational teachers... //Read//
A Cultural
Hub for Cumbria in the South Lakes
A vision in perpetual development
Several years before I moved from London to Ambleside in 1992,
I had a vivid and incredibly lucid dream. In my dream I had
made the move and had been resident for long enough to have
made the Golden Rule my local pub... //Read//
Head
Proposals in development for an installation
The location: a cathedral or abbey, possibly but not necessarily
in a state of ruin within a rural or an urban landscape, or
a large, redundant commercial or industrial building, ideally
in dilapidated state... //Read//
Heaven
Dips
Proposal for an installation/intervention by Russell Mills
and Ian Walton
To most people the Lake District is perceived as being merely
picturesque, pastoral, beautiful, quaint, - a chocolate-box
Arcadia... //Read//
Job
Application
A draft in perpetual development, towards a successful career
in the higher
echelons of corporate business.
Dear Sir or Madam, given that I have only recently graduated
from college and therefore am too young to have established
a creditable professional curriculum vitae, I submit below
a brief biography, which I hope will indicate to you my suitability
for the position which your company has recently advertised...
//Read//
Relay
Proposal in development for an installation by Russell Mills
and Ian Walton
Rather than the whims of monarchs or the rise of capitalism,
it is vegetables and minerals that have had the greater effect
on human history... //Read//
Salve
Proposal in development for an installation by Russell Mills
and Ian Walton
The location: an empty swimming pool, preferably old and redundant,
possibly Victorian, or a redundant industrial building with
a history that has some contextual correspondence to the ideas
explored in the installation... //Read//
Static
Proposal for a multimedia, site-specific installation by Russell
Mills and Ian Walton
From the highest part of a large building an inverted, leafless
tree, mirroring its root system and resembling the veins of
a heart, is suspended from the roof to hover over a floor
covered with crushed sea shells - mute reminders of past occupations
and communities lost to so-called technological progress...
//Read//
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