Using concrete plaques, markers or boundary stones, the work aims to reactivate the built environment left by the partially-completed Brasilia Of The North project, as championed by left-wing council leader T Dan Smith in the 1960's. A brave modernist vision of our future that never came to pass, the partly built remnants form a defining part of Newcastle’s present-day cityscape. By utilising the material language of these spaces, and the formal language of the modernist art in which they find their roots, I want to draw attention to these unnoticed places, and reactivate the politics inherent in their design.
Dibond mounted digital photographs, sizes variable.
Each print is scaled around the concrete plaque in the image, so that it appears at the same size across all four prints.
Cast griptape in concrete, digital photograph
Cast griptape in concrete, 19.5cm x 19.5cm
Cast griptape in concrete, digital photograph
Cast griptape in concrete, 19.5cm x 19.5cm
Cast griptape in concrete, digital photograph
Cast griptape in concrete, 19.5cm x 19.5cm
Cast griptape in concrete, digital photograph
Cast griptape in concrete, 19.5cm x 19.5cm
Cast griptape in concrete, digital photograph
Cast griptape in concrete, 19.5cm x 19.5cm