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Cristina Ferrandez Box -3 Month Residency
June to September 2011
Stone Is Land - PSQT Artist Residency Programme 2011 - 2013
Work in progress by Cristina Ferrandez Box for exhibition 'Longed for Landscapes'.
Cristina Ferrandez – Box, from Northern Spain completed a 3 month residency with Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust (PSQT) at the Drill Hall Gallery and Stone Workshop with exhibition - ‘26th August to 9th September.
The exhibition travels to Northern Spain, Centro de Escultura Museo Anton of Candas, in Asturias, where it will be shown from November 2011 to January 2012.
The Drill Hall Gallery and Stone Workshop - provides a centre for working with all aspects of stone within Portland's Quarry Park. Facilities provide a gallery space of 4,000 square feet, for visual and performing arts, to show new work in the gallery and environment, during next year’s cultural events for the Olympics and beyond.
BRIEF ARTIST STATEMENT
During a 3 months artist residency with PSQT, working with artist Hannah Sofaer who has developed a living land archive resource that addresses research in the context of the landscape, environment, science and industry, and during a stone carving course, Cristina was involved in a process where the stone and its landscape opened a new way to develop ideas in relation to installation and the use of new media, inside and outside.
Developing a project, Paisajes Anhelados, ( Longed for Landscapes ) on the global consciousness of Earth and Nature, through stone as material and through the landscape of the Portland environment and its stone industry.
The residency opens a relationship between two sea shores, the Cantabric of Asturias in Spain and the English Channel in Portland.
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PROGRAMME
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Friday 26th August
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7.30pm - 11.00pm
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Opening of Exhibition by visual artist Cristina Ferrandez Box ‘Longed for Landscapes’.
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Welcome / introduction to – 'Stone is Land' – PSQT local and inter-cultural artist residency programme.
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Refreshments
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Saturday 27th August
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9.30am - 11.30am
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Guided walk through Inmosthay Quarry and Tout Quarry Sculpture Park - where art and environment meet
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11.30am - 5.30pm
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Working sessions – developing ideas for work in response to landscape, open to all art forms, interventions, work in stone.
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1.00pm - 1.45pm
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Lunch break
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6.00pm - 7.30pm
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Open session with 15 minute presentations by participants on their work and shared discussion
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8.00pm
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Informal drinks / food
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Sunday 28th August
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9.30am - 1.00pm
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Working sessions continue in landscape and at the Drill Hall Gallery.
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1.00pm - 1.45pm
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Lunch break
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1.45pm - 4.00pm
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Presentation and discussion of work towards future collaborations.
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Tea / Coffee - Feedback
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