Human form traced onto paper with astronomical data. | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
Drawing from the body, 2010 Pencil,cyanotype and ink on paper with astronomical data. | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Russell Moreton.Postcards from Kilquhanity 2011 ” Back to free school:Drawing out the archive”.
As part of my residency I undertook to turn the space of a pottery into a “Camera (room) Obscura”. In this space I exposed directly the view gathered from “outside” onto photographic paper as a collage of interwoven documents. The cyanotype printing process was employed in  field-studies using the sun to recording the movement of the earth. A single day spent charting the suns shadow through an architectural space-frame on the lawn at Kilquhanity resulted in a “pathway between sunrise to sunset”.
Back to free school:Drawing out the archive was a week long residential project that took place between the 9th and the 17th of April 2011 in Galloway,Scotland. The site for the project was Kilquhanity, one of the original free schools established in the UK by John Aitkenhead in the 1940’s.
The project aims to open up opportunities for different approaches, practices and areas of interest. These might include exploring concepts of the archive through the project’s free school “methodology”, examining ideas of free school through Kilquhanity’s particular history and/or engaging with the site itself as a concrete history or archive.Â
Charlotte Knox Williams and Trish Bould. Project participants.Drawing Place.
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