This Place Coming Through

BACKGROUND: 60 works on paper titled ‘This Place Coming Through’ were exhibited as part of the exhibition ‘Conversations with Weather’. It was a group show from 11 January to 6 March 2019 at Dartington Space Gallery including Fiona Harrisson (Australia), Deila Salter (UK), Susan Kruse (UK). The exhibition theme concerned engagement between artists and academics around contemporary ecological issues, in line with the ‘art.earth’ organisation’s mandate. There were undertaken as durational practice of observation, using drawings as a means to develop a capacity for seeing as an extended practice over time. The drawings were undertaken as daily practice recording the shifting dynamics of landscape of the changing landscape atmospheres exploring ‘durational’ methods of recording time. CONTRIBUTION: Although time is integral to the discipline of Landscape disciplines, it tends to be represented in a single moment of time. Jeremy Till, architect and theorist, offers the idea of ‘thickened time’ as an alternative to the way space is often drawn as ‘frozen moments’ in the discipline. These landscape drawings contribute to the idea of the exploration of time in multiple ways. Each drawing contains a residue of the duration of observation, ‘thickened time’, not a singular moment. Across each set of 30 drawings, the change of weather is revealed over the duration of one month. SIGNIFICANCE: The Work was selected through a competitive, international process at Dartington Space, an established Gallery known for its thematic engagements with contemporary ecological issues.