In Search of Lost Time
A trio show by Mike Bradshaw, Vanessa Clegg and Andrew Davey
26.10.2024 - 01.12.2024
Studio 10 Project Space
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Starting points and interventions
From metaphorical references to memories of time past, to the concentrated time lapse of reading a book. We have all approached the subject of ‘time’ through our own personal perspectives. Yet there are overlaps, where we have also worked collaboratively in conversation with each others’ work. We have found forms of expression in an area that involves us all and raises questions about our own idea of what time itself means.

Materials
We each use layering in our practice; building, scraping, and erasing mixed media on paper or board. Some pieces take form through assembled collage and images, alongside found, recycled objects. Other examples involve improvising with wax, household products, plaster, dust and other non-traditional materials, creating a form of archaeology that marks and records the time taken to create each piece, both physically and psychologically.

Mike Bradshaw
This work references the intrinsic creative value of age, referencing time past through recycled images, objects and materials. All have origins predating the contemporary creation of this work. They carry their own history through depiction, ownership and origin. Collectively composed, they imagine new meanings and narratives. They encourage a curiosity about when they may have originated, playing with our perceptions about provenance, their age and their story in time.

Vanessa Clegg
Looking at time in a way that traces Earth’s geological and climate shifts over millenia, ice cores consisting of wafer thin layers like the pages of a book, tell a story. And upon all life rests the health of the insect population… small overlooked creatures whose numbers continue to plummet (60% down). The past informs the present, which in turn pre-empts the future. The sun rises and sets, the moon rises and sets, day follows night and the natural rhythm of time continues.

Andrew Davey
How past is connected to present, and present to the future and how there is an unfolding story. Books and bookmarks, the images from pages turning and overlapping, partly erased, fragments glimpsed, provide a narrative, a history, a passage through time; a palimpsest. The bookmark indicates past interventions. The bookmark speaks of selection or choice and is a signifier of return or revisit. The past is present.

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