‘Fire and Water’
An Exhibition of Sculpture and Print
‘Artefacts with Indeterminable Functions’
An Andi Dakin exhibition of Sculpture with Printmaking embellishment at The Old Parcels Office Art Space in Scarborough. Much of my work over the past two years has a had connections with Fire or Water. Fire and Water were two essential components required to generate steam, used to power trains in and out of Scarborough Railway Station. During the months leading up to my exhibition, the characterful exhibition space influenced the way my sculpture ideas were realised.
Photography. Anna Kirk-Smith
‘Resting Brooms’ (detail) The sculpture is suspended from rafters 30 feet into the roof space bringing a reassuring veil of calm to the room. Chimney sweeps flue brooms and plumbers drain rods have been embellished and assigned new flamboyant identities. Colourful, glorious and suspended, they are collectively resting as if they have not long since returned from a party.
The Arched Windows in the Old Parcels Office is an enriching Architectural Feature, a fitting context for a sculpture. A circle of watering cans fitted the Arch perfectly. The Garden Riddle held the cans in their roundel and the view through the mesh connected with the exterior station Architecture. The union of gardening objects pose as a Rose Window.
A shiny garden incinerator that has been decorated with Lino prints, pompoms and finger cones. Its cool exterior and positioning enables the viewer to connect with its darker and warmer interior.
A Fishermans marker buoy, found washed up on the high tide line. As a re-assigned object her surface is printed with images of ‘Artefacts with indeterminable functions’
A storage unit for coal that has been adapted to house studded Ovoids. A work realised for one of the Fireplaces in the Old Parcels Office at Scarborough Railway Station. The printed images on Bunker’s surface are of ….. ‘Artefacts with Indeterminable Functions’
An assemblage of characterful components all sourced separately over a period of several years that came together for the Fire and Water exhibition in Scarborough. The tower of objects is internally lit by an assortment of flashing lights to emulate light signals to trains and ships. The milk churn is decorated with Lino printed images of…… ‘Artefacts with Indeterminable Functions”
Crudely turned wooden balls that have seen years of play, have a patina that makes them look like spherical potatoes. We grew our own delicious organic potatoes this year and potatoes were in the frame for a sculpture theme. The balls with their exaggerated chitlins shoots are in the company of an upturned sink which also has golf tee embellishment. Very much a nod to ‘Fountain” Marcel Duchamp’s inverted Urinal.
A well used, distressed scaffolders wheelbarrow, grit blasted and galvanised. She survived her first role, was rescued, refreshed, and enjoys her new union with pitch forks.
Font…….. A vertical union of re-assigned objects, embellished with prints of ‘Artefacts with Indeterminable Functions’ That invite ‘Fire and Water’ speculations.
Andi Dakin 