Naldi, Pat (2024) Place, People and Living Memory. [Show/Exhibition]
![]() The Future is a Time After The Present (video still) |
![]() The Future is a Time After The Present (video still) |
Type of Research: | Show/Exhibition | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Creators: | Naldi, Pat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description: | The Future is a Time After The Present in Place, People and Living Memory This story takes its lead from an artwork at the National Portrait Gallery, London, titled: 'The World Anti-Slavery Convention 1840', made by the history painter and diarist Benjamin Robert Haydon. The inclusion of Elizabeth Pease in the delegates depicted encourages further consideration of the central role of her advocacy for abolitionism. Born (1807) into a Quaker family of wool merchants in Darlington, the entitlements and civic values of her time permeate the eloquence of her Suffragist identity and her tireless campaigning for female emancipation. This exhibition unpicks a few threads from the storehouse of this history to trace the slow turn of change and reformation in human affairs then and since. Place, People and Living Memory is a contemporary storehouse of ideas depicted in painting, photography, film and audio visual arts in the mode of an installation with the intent to show rather than tell. The work to be done with this exhibition, in part, is to reveal the lived experience of collision between privilege and oppression. The installation incorporates: a photo-essay; current practice in painting; digital projection; audio visual work and performance events. The Future is a Time After The Present In the same way, the video work The Future is a Time After the Present (2024), reflects on the journey from one stage of life to another. Shot on location in Dungeness a promontory on the Kent coast, a figure traverses a salty pool of water created by the sea tides amongst the shingle. The figure resorts to swimming across to get to the other side. I first visited Dungeness as a teenager in the autumn of 1983. It was the first field trip our tutors took us on at the start of my undergraduate fine art degree course at Maidstone College of Art. Forty years later I find myself returning to this place where I entered a new phase of my life all those years ago to make a work in hindsight of the person and artist that I have become. |
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Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Central Saint Martins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | 31 January 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Funders: | Arts Council England, Durham University, The Auxiliary, Creative Darlington, Josephine Butler College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Related Websites: | https://www2.darlington.gov.uk/living-memory#/, https://peasebutlerandspence.co.uk/pplm/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Related Exhibitions: | https://peasebutlerandspence.co.uk/pplm/, https://www2.darlington.gov.uk/living-memory#/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date Crown Street Gallery, Darlington 31 January 2024 25 March 2024 |
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Material/Media: | Video and commissioned essay | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date Deposited: | 05 Feb 2024 11:26 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 05 Feb 2024 11:26 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Item ID: | 21347 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/21347 |
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