Blue Rec is an installation about a brick guard that became embedded in local woodland after it came loose from housing development scaffolding during storms in 2017. The design of brick guards has since changed to allow stronger winds to pass through which reflects a greater frequency of stormy weather.
The excavation and subsequent installation at the Old Grammar School in Coventry of the brick guard with a video of the excavation and post-excavation scans of the ground was a commission - for which I am incredibly grateful because without it this project would not have happened - for Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art 2023 ...like a short cut through the brambles and can be viewed Thursday - Saturday October 5 2023 - January 14 2024.
Photographing the brick guard becoming increasingly embedded into the woodland became part of my larger and still ongoing Silverhouses project studying greenbelt land (in the UK this term refers to agricultural land between towns, villages and cities) newly developed for housing, with subsequent activities expressed through the changing materiality of the site and around its margins. This is the Silverhouses project website page.
Here's a page on the Coventry Biennial website all about this commission, featuring a video by Tegan Kimbley made from the footage she took during the excavation, and of me chatting about it. Extraction
The images above show the installation at the Old Grammar School, in Coventry. There are further ones on my website on the Blue Rec page.
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