Upside-down and Backwards

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Group of Sixty-Seven
Upside Down and Backwards
Colour Bars and Colour Research
Upside Down and Backwards
Mak­ing our own colour bars
IMG_4328
Canoe
Upside Down and Backwards
DSC_0209
colour research
Upside Down and Backwards
Upside Down and Backwards
juice boxes
Upside Down and Backwards
Upside Down and Backwards
Upside Down and Backwards
Don Val­ley Brickworks
Upside Down and Backwards
Rear-view Walk­ing Sticks
rainbow
Upside Down and Backwards
Upside Down and Backwards
Upside Down and Backwards
Upside Down and Backwards
Upside Down and Backwards
juice boxes
Cam­era Obscura
Upside Down and Backwards

Talk­ing about Jin-me Yoon’s ‘Group of Six­ty-Sev­en’ (1996–1997).

Look­ing at ‘Colour Bars and Colour Research’ (by var­i­ous artists), from the Morris/Trasov Archives, (1972 -).

Mak­ing our own colour bars.

Colour bars arrive on the banks of the Don Riv­er by Canoe.

Con­duct­ing our own colour research.

Colour bar juice boxes.

View­ing St. James Town from the Don Val­ley Brickworks.

Going for a walk with Eli­nor Whidden’s ‘Rear-view Walk­ing Sticks.’

Rear-view mir­ror makes a rainbow.

Anish Kapoor-style juice boxes.

Cam­era Obscu­ra finalé in the base­ment of the school. We watched the play­ground upside down.

Upside-down and Back­wards result­ed in a series of inver­sions, reflec­tions and refrac­tions in between our ideas of nature and cul­ture. Dur­ing the final two weeks of school, artists Han­nah Jick­ling and Helen Reed explored artists’ inves­ti­ga­tions in nature and land­scape, through sev­er­al field trips. The class­es cre­at­ed “end­less paint­ings” on the banks of the Don Riv­er, with colour bars inspired by ear­li­er Colour Research (par­tic­u­lar­ly as remem­bered by the Morris/Trasov Archive).  We hiked with Eli­nor Whidden’s Rearview Walk­ing Sticks, and cre­at­ed land­scape reflec­tion por­traits, inspired by Iain Baxter&.  Juice box­es were made as props and ‘doc­u­ments’ from each field trip. The grand finale fea­tured school­yard per­for­mances for the ‘pin­hole’ of a cam­era obscu­ra in the school basement.