I’m very pleased that my copper ink drawing “A Crack In The Record”, has been selected for a second exhibition this year, having recently appeared as part of FLOW at Modern Art Oxford (September - October 2020 but still visible online here.
It now also appears as part of the online exhibition “YOU ARE HERE”, organised by the @katmapped collaborative (artists James Stewart and Kate Trafeli). The exhibition explores how the concept of maps and mapping, internal and external, has informed living artists works and thoughts .
Mapping, and the use of maps as a way of thinking about place and being in place in both space and time, is of course key to “A Crack In The Record”, as I explain on the YOU ARE HERE website:
"This copper ink drawing explores a disused railway line on Anglesey. Its route operates as a silence/absence that explores memory as sound/silence through a form of mapmaking, designed to be displayed flat. Copper operates as a visual metaphor for Anglesey’s industrial heritage. I have experimented with ideas/methodologies of recording and preserving information: contours on map/landscape, yes, but also the groove on a record, or the lines on the stump of a felled tree."
Mark Clay. YOU ARE HERE, November 2020.
https://katmapped.org/now-on%3A-%22you-are-here%22
Image below: detail from “A Crack In The Record”, Mark Clay, 2020. H900mm X W1100mm, copper ink on paper. Image copyright: Mark Clay 2020.
