Project:
One week project, 'broadcast' in two galleries each day from our parents' homes as two split screen video works and live audio from telephone conversations
HOMESPUN centred on us returning to our 'home towns'
for a week, and making paired video works each day which we then
exchanged by post, edited together split screen (with some very
'basic' technology!) and showed simultaneously in two local
galleries. The video works, shot in a simultaneous single take,
showed one landscape and one domestic scene each day, reflecting
our ideas on home-coming, formative experiences, early 'art-making'
and parental influences.
The ongoing nature of the website extended the project
considerably, allowing further space for experimental and
contextual work around the subject and extending the timescale of
what was initially a very brief installation.
First exhibited: Cambridge Darkroom Gallery & Street Level
Photoworks, Glasgow (22/07/1997 - 27/07/97)
Subsequently shown: art.tm Inverness (14/03/98 - 18/04/98)
Brighton House, Brixton, London (13/11/98 - 10/12/98)
Angel Row, Nottingham (19/01/02 - 02/03/02)