Photos of final event: residency

Thanks to Arto Polus for documenting the work http://www.artopolus.net/katiegilman/

All images above by Arto Polus

Day 6 - Final event

As always I started the day with a good walk - this time down to the allotment with Carole.

When we got back at the house we prepared for the guests. Carole put together a hearty spread and we moved furniture and tidied up in anticipation.

I made a final decision to place the pink foam objects up in the attic space with the others.

More on the final event and comments and responses from the viewers to follow in next the next posting.

Day 5 - Residency (Stratford Grove)

A beautiful sunny day in Newcastle. I took a long walk around Heaton and Byker.

Some amazing light in the attic space. Which cast shadows that framed the work .....

And today's final experiments were to paint the foam forms I created earlier in the week to see how this changed them. These are very different from the work in the attic as the foam has simply been squirted and not manipulated or shaped intentionally in any way.

I think I will include these somehow in tommorrow's event.

Day 4 - Residency (Stratford Grove)

A really useful conversation with Carole helped me decide what direction to go in today. I knew I needed to do something with the other materials I had collected and stored in the project space and I started the day with the feeling that I should be trying to build something monumental with them.

So as a first step I joined two posts together.....

But then I felt stuck and this is when the conversation with Carole happened. We reflected on what I was trying to do with this residency, which was allowing space for experimentation and play and also to a certain extent leaving it to chance as to what materials I would find and have at my disposal. So with a very helpful suggestion from Carole I didn't listen to my construction anxiety (!) and decided to take a step back and experiment simply with the materials and their placement and combination in the space. Not necessarily to construct but perhaps more to display.

I've got one final day before the closing event tomorrow which feels about right.

Time to do some final tweaking and playing around with placement and maybe some final experiments with the expanding foam (seeing as I have the materials to hand). Then it will be interesting to get feedback and comments at the crit on Sunday afternoon.

And finally - last night we went to the opening of the Laura Lancaster show at the Workplace Gallery in Gateshead, walking back over the river into town with great views across the city.
http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk/exhibitions/_29/

Day 3 - Residency (Stratford Grove)

A rainy day spent quietely exploring the properties of expanding polyfilla in the attic space. It was good to separate these works from the wood and other materials downstairs in the project space and to spend time with them in a more neutral and less cluttered space.

This is a completely new line of work for me which is really exciting.

No new materials collected from the street today although I did go for a morning walk to the shops to buy a few things.

Also, there seems to be something interesting on pretty much every night here and last night Carole and I went to a student show ('Disappear here') at a pop up space in the ThinkTank gallery space in Hoults yard http://houltsyard.wordpress.com/ followed by fish and chips on the way home!

Day 2 - Residency (Stratford Grove) - work in progress

A day of experimentation.

The new objects and pieces of wood I found today are propped against the wall.

I managed to peel off the lace from the expanding foam from yesterday which has taken on the form of the folds of the material and has imprinted on it in places the pattern. I think I could explore this more so will continue with this again tomorrow. I'm not sure I like the colour though and if I change it in some way this may detract from its rawness.

After a slight disaster of having bought the wrong type of concrete mix I eventually gave it a go anyway and have filled a bucket with concrete and embedded one of the wooden fence posts in it - to form a base which I can work out from to make some kind of framework.

Day 2 - Residency (Stratford Grove) - Walking around Heaton

Fascinating to see variations and modifications of essentially the same architecture and to come across random finds on the street.