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Explore Our Collections
Our collection focuses on the interaction of people and time with the 'Heritage Environment'
The collection is concerned with change and the march of time. It asks questions related to people and place, in an era that some would say celebrates the local Industrial Heritage legacy and unique coastline, whilst others would question the legitimacy of atrophying the past....
Welcome to the St Just Heritage Area This installation displays archived materials from community consultation processes and regeneration strategies from 2005-7. These items are presented alongside a series of snap shots and audio recordings of local people based around the seating areas in St Just that were commissioned as part of the Objective One funded St Just Regeneration Project back in 2005-6.
How does the social, the individual story relate to the political? Who makes the decisions? How do we define ourselves? Veronica Vickery
research/record/remake sets out to investigate other ways of recording and presenting visual research about cultural activity in the landscape by using site specific, reconstructed visual presentations and photographic documents accumulated through the appropriation of conventional research methods and techniques. The work stems from a desire to create a visual debate that engages with the issues of what we do and don’t preserve, how we present them and what the implications of this are. It is an investigation into how different ways of presenting research visually could underline in some way the value of graffiti as a relevant cultural activity [retrospectively perhaps] that can assist the interpretation of social contexts at historic sites.
research/record/remake takes its inspiration from 3 examples of unsanctioned cultural activity [mark making/graffiti] at 3 different archaeologically and geologically renowned sites that form part of the wider Cornish mining World Heritage site. They are to be found within a 2 mile stretch on the North coast of West Penwith, Cornwall. These groups, starting with the most westerly are to be found at Botallack, Levant and Geevor tin mines. Bruce Davies
Dissolution: solid+liquid=precious liquid explores the cycles of mineral dissolution and deposition, both natural and human-influenced, this work focuses on the mineralogy of the area and the manner in which minerals and rock are affected by time and water.
Eons ago, deep underground, these cycles of mineral deposition created the mineral seams that were worked and mined in previous years. Now this cycle continues by the flow of water through old mine workings, depositing minerals where water escapes to the surface.
These cycles of change and re-working of existent elements reflect the cycles of change and adjustment that are seen in both the artist's life history, and that of the area.
This work explores and questions what is around us; how the remnants of an industry continue to affect our environment and how the cycle of mineral deposition continues to flow inspite (or because of) human intervention. Jo Hoddinott
Our collection focuses on the interaction of people and time with the 'Heritage Environment'
The collection is concerned with change and the march of time. It asks questions related to people and place, in an era that some would say celebrates the local Industrial Heritage legacy and unique coastline, whilst others would question the legitimacy of atrophying the past....
Welcome to the St Just Heritage Area This installation displays archived materials from community consultation processes and regeneration strategies from 2005-7. These items are presented alongside a series of snap shots and audio recordings of local people based around the seating areas in St Just that were commissioned as part of the Objective One funded St Just Regeneration Project back in 2005-6.
How does the social, the individual story relate to the political? Who makes the decisions? How do we define ourselves? Veronica Vickery
research/record/remake sets out to investigate other ways of recording and presenting visual research about cultural activity in the landscape by using site specific, reconstructed visual presentations and photographic documents accumulated through the appropriation of conventional research methods and techniques. The work stems from a desire to create a visual debate that engages with the issues of what we do and don’t preserve, how we present them and what the implications of this are. It is an investigation into how different ways of presenting research visually could underline in some way the value of graffiti as a relevant cultural activity [retrospectively perhaps] that can assist the interpretation of social contexts at historic sites.
research/record/remake takes its inspiration from 3 examples of unsanctioned cultural activity [mark making/graffiti] at 3 different archaeologically and geologically renowned sites that form part of the wider Cornish mining World Heritage site. They are to be found within a 2 mile stretch on the North coast of West Penwith, Cornwall. These groups, starting with the most westerly are to be found at Botallack, Levant and Geevor tin mines. Bruce Davies
Dissolution: solid+liquid=precious liquid explores the cycles of mineral dissolution and deposition, both natural and human-influenced, this work focuses on the mineralogy of the area and the manner in which minerals and rock are affected by time and water.
Eons ago, deep underground, these cycles of mineral deposition created the mineral seams that were worked and mined in previous years. Now this cycle continues by the flow of water through old mine workings, depositing minerals where water escapes to the surface.
These cycles of change and re-working of existent elements reflect the cycles of change and adjustment that are seen in both the artist's life history, and that of the area.
This work explores and questions what is around us; how the remnants of an industry continue to affect our environment and how the cycle of mineral deposition continues to flow inspite (or because of) human intervention. Jo Hoddinott
