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ArtHike
Navigating Yorkshire brings together new and recent
artworks by eight printmakers and two textile artists investigating the
relationships we form with place, in order to greet travellers through
Huddersfield Railway station with an alternative and personally charged insight
into the geography of Yorkshire. Navigating Yorkshire: Printmakers
Exploring Place
Presented by West Yorkshire Print Workshop Gallery,
at Art Station, Huddersfield (Huddersfield
Railway Concourse) 21 May – 13 July 2014
What personal connections do we make with this
geography
during the course of our everyday lives?
How might these connections be represented by an artist so
as to introduce visitors to a place?
How might an emotional relationship with a landscape take
visual precedence over a spatial one?
How might a place be navigated according to affinity,
as opposed to proximity?
As a part of the Yorkshire Festival 2014, West Yorkshire
Print Workshop will be presenting a special exhibition, which investigates the
questions above, in a venue thoroughly apt for welcoming Le Tour followers
to the north of England.
Mediating between the calm grandeur of a neo-classical facade and the constant
bustle of six platforms, this venue is Art Station- an exhibition space
newly born of the Huddersfield Railway concourse.
West Yorkshire Print Workshop, in partnership with Art
Station, has invited their affiliated printmakers- both WYPW members and PrintmakingOnline
members- to showcase new and recent work that will greet the travelling public
with an alternative and personally charged insight into the geography of the
county. By abandoning cartographic convention and mapping places according to
personal journeys and lived experience, the exhibition promises to offer up new
subjective means for navigating Yorkshire- to
both expectant first-time visitors and to regular commuters of the concourse.
Participating artists are:
Lesley Bohanna
Gavin Campbell
Andrew Hambleton
Emily Harvey
Brian Hindmarch
Amy Hirst
Scarlette Homeshaw
Michelle Keegan
Ian Wrench
Andrew Warburton
Collective Mapping Running alongside this exhibition,
West Yorkshire Print Workshop will be inviting visitors to their gallery in
Mirfield to map their own personal experiences of Yorkshire
on a large map of the county. This collective mapping will celebrate the county
and the personal histories embedded in its landscape as we await the Grand
Depart and the excitement of Le Tour.