England Revisited
Summary
I was consultant curator to the agency artevents, who commissioned artist Simon English to revisit 75 points that he first encountered in the making of his monumental All England Sculpture, (1971).
From July until September 2010 Simon revisited hedgerows and roadsides, flyovers and forests, fields and fallow terrain, cities, town and hamlets. During his journey Simon catalysed another generation of encounters between people and place and between artist and landscape. He photographed 40 years of history as inscribed in the English landscape.
In 2011 at regular intervals Simon uploaded current images of the points revisited to compare with images taken in 1971.
England Revisited exploits the technological opportunities of the present to re-visit the past and re-enchant the leylines of a journey first made almost 40 years ago.
Supported by
Arts Council England
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Description of project
I was consultant curator of the project. I undertake archival research and then conservation and cataloguing of English’s original work. English’s work has been largely obscured within British Art History and I wrote several papers for artevents on his possible relation to the history of UK conceptualism and radical land art practices. I also established a series of national partnerships with the 75 nodes of his work and a series of media partnerships resulting in English appearing regularly on radio and TV during his journey.
Type of work
Curated exhibition, Land Art
Published in
Nationally in the UK and WWW 2010-2011
Link to web site
http://www.englandrevisited.net
Other description
Exhibition: England Revisited
Artist: Simon English
Curator: Jason Bowman
Date
2011Creator
Bowman, Jason E.
Keywords
Fine Art
Digital Art
Land Art
Landscape
Conceptual Art
Curating
Place Making
Climate Change
Publication type
artistic work
Language
eng