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Colour Beecroft Gallery 8 April 2019 - 11 April 2020 This exhibition displays work from the Beecroft collection and also features loans from ESCALA, examining artists responses to colour in a "bedazzling multi-coloured journey". From April to August 2019 it featured "Spectracube", a work co-created with Stuart Bowditch, examining the colour of sound and the sound of colour. From August '19 to April 2020 the gallery are displaying images from the Daylight Light Painting workshops which took place at the end of July. |
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Spectracube (2012 – Robinson / Bowditch)
Robinson and Bowditch developed collaborative works between 2006 and 2013, exploring the dualities and tensions between ‘old’ and ‘new’; contemporary sounds and archive recordings, discarded technology and recent gadgets, between what was valued and what is now overlooked.
The dual functionality of this 1977 Bell & Howell sound-slide projector mirrors the collaborative processes they formulated. Robinson - a D/deaf visual artist - often incorporates audio into her work, whilst Bowditch - a musician - uses the form of objects to create and project sound works.
In this piece they highlight their perceived deficiencies (Robinson's hearing loss and Bowditch's colour blindness) by using one to determine the other. The chromatic spectrum slide images constructed by Robinson were analysed for their red, green, and blue colour data. The data was then transposed onto the audible sound spectrum and the corresponding frequency ranges generated by Bowditch to create an audible version of the image. The tones are then played back at the same time as their representative slide to present the viewer with the 'sound of colour' and the 'colour of sound'.
"A similar pushing of our senses...where a reversal takes place, the colour of sound, and the sound of colour, taking what is inaccessible for them both, in order to facilitate a whole different kind of experience for others."
Robinson and Bowditch developed collaborative works between 2006 and 2013, exploring the dualities and tensions between ‘old’ and ‘new’; contemporary sounds and archive recordings, discarded technology and recent gadgets, between what was valued and what is now overlooked.
The dual functionality of this 1977 Bell & Howell sound-slide projector mirrors the collaborative processes they formulated. Robinson - a D/deaf visual artist - often incorporates audio into her work, whilst Bowditch - a musician - uses the form of objects to create and project sound works.
In this piece they highlight their perceived deficiencies (Robinson's hearing loss and Bowditch's colour blindness) by using one to determine the other. The chromatic spectrum slide images constructed by Robinson were analysed for their red, green, and blue colour data. The data was then transposed onto the audible sound spectrum and the corresponding frequency ranges generated by Bowditch to create an audible version of the image. The tones are then played back at the same time as their representative slide to present the viewer with the 'sound of colour' and the 'colour of sound'.
"A similar pushing of our senses...where a reversal takes place, the colour of sound, and the sound of colour, taking what is inaccessible for them both, in order to facilitate a whole different kind of experience for others."
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Exhibited at TAP 12 Jan-24 March 2013
On show at Beecroft Gallery from 8 April 2019 |
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