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Geoffrey Manton- Achiving the Past, Present and Future

I have recently won a commission for a piece of work to go in the Manchester Metropolitan University Geoffrey Manton Building. The building houses the faculty of humanities, so my piece was designed with this faculty in mind.

I wanted to make a visual representation of the transition from material archiving to digital archiving, so I chose to work with paper and electrical cables. The wire is stripped in the middle and wound around the paper straws, as if it is engulfing, consuming and preserving the information on the paper. I will be making it over the next month or so.

Gawthorpe Hall Redisplay 2013

I submitted these unpicked jeans from first year to a lace-inspired exhibition at Gawthorpe Hall. They asked me to further the work and provide samples and a sketchbook to put in a display cabinet for their Inspired Exhibition. Going back to first year work was strange, as I had to get back into the mindset I was in when creating this work, but I found it therapeutic to further a successful idea. I started drawing from some unrealised sketches in my first year sketchbook.

I inserted dyed, enlarged panels into sections of this bleached denim jacket skeleton, so that when they were unpicked the threads would hang in  languid, organic fashion. It's very visceral, and addresses the intimate relationship between our clothes and our bodies, and particularly how attached we can become to denim garments.

The exhibition should open on the 6th April, and will be up over the summer. Go and see it if you're a Northerner!