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As part of my interest in how we perceive the landscape I have started to have conversations with people that work in or make work about the landscape.
The first of such was with artist David Stone, a painter and PhD student from Colchester. We discussed the role of artists in depicting the landscape, the role of the Romantic Movement, Capability Brown and his blurring of the lines between garden and landscape, Luke Turner’s ‘Out of the Woods’ and much more. For the second conversation I revisited my childhood landscape, and although I didn’t call it that when I was younger, I spent a lot of time outside playing with my friends, building dens and setting fire to stuff. I also spoke to my mum for an hour about how our family members have always moved to new places in search of work and a better life, my parents decision to move from inner city London to a semi-rural dead end road to bring up their family and a variety of lifestyle choices that shaped how I could navigate my local environment. These interviews will be released soon so please keep an ear to the ground for announcements.
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 A still from Cloud Study #01 After what seems like an age, the project has an online presence. We've set up on Instagram, Blue Sky and Facebook. This website and blog is also now live! Please feel free to join in the discussions. I know a lot of people have a vast amount of knowledge and information about Constable, his paintings and the locations he frequented, and this project is my way of learning about it all, so I'm all ears.
I'm so pleased to be working with a great groups of talented people on the project, and you can find out more about them on the Partners page. New ideas are springing up all the time so to explore some of these, and to generate some content, I've started a YouTube channel. The first thread I will be investigating is 'Cloud Studies', which is a response to the fact that Constable spent several summers just painting clouds in order to perfect his techniques. So in the coming months I'll be making some audio/visual versions of my own in the Dedham Vale so please keep an eye out for them. The first one is up now featuring the tower of St.Mary The Virgin, Dedham, which featured in many of Constable's paintings.  My family at Flatford Mill in the late 1970's. After many years of planning and organising I'm very pleased to announce that Constable Ambisonic will be supported using public funding by the National Lottery through an Arts Council Project Grant. I'm over the moon that I can start work on the project in earnest and work towards its goals and activities. We've got some great project partners and I'll be sharing more information about them soon. In the mean time follow us on socials @constableambisonic X
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AuthorField notes from Stuart Bowditch, an independent field recordist working on Constable Ambisonic. ArchivesCategories |
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