The installation piece Altogether Other began as a relatively static piece. An artwork that came into existence at the group exhibition Continuum at Hive Gallery, it remained in place just as it was, for the duration of the show. However, it’s next iteration at Altogether Otherwise will not be static, but in flux; dynamic, open-ended, and ever-changing.
Not quite a studio space, not quite an exhibition, Altogether Other will be a space that holds live investigations. More like an office or a lab than an art space. At times we may even deny it exists. Things will be added, removed, altered over time. It will respond.
The piece has grown out of my studio space, out of my painting practice, to take on a new role of art as searching for an unknown sense of time and place.
Both the installation and my walking practice are about searching for a sense of lost time and place. Searching through walking, presenting, investigating, mark-making, reanimating, projecting, reminding, and remediating.
From January 2024, there will be monthly sketchbook walks from Altogether Other, on the final Friday of every month. In the sketchbook walks we will use walking and mark-making as a group, to explore, discover, listen, experience, and linger.
The walks inform the installation and the installation informs the walks. Ideally this would become a perpetual feedback loop, always present, but often out of sync, and disjointed, like the ghosts and magick of the land we continue to seek.
