PRESS RELEASE
MITCHELL
BOULD: SITE WORKS
Website: www.mitchellbould.com
‘In Mitchell-Bould’s work the simultaneous mapping and merging, of people in time and construction in space, is rhythmically embedded in the transparency and fluidity of old and new media, of drawn lines and digital images, of figures and forces at work within the totality of the making that becomes a building. This virtual tracing of many feet and hands, of stuff and information, this complex of layers and passages across territories and spaces like a Piranesian loom set in the evanescence of sunlight on glass, enables the closed structure of ‘completion’ to be defused, and for the making of the building to breathe from within. ‘ 1.
Mitchell Bould provides us with an opportunity to glimpse inside
the building process and examine a space that is normally hidden from
our view.
Site Works is the conclusion of a three year research project by the British artists Trish Bould and Belinda Mitchell. The project documents the creation of Osborne School, Winchester, on the site of Lankhills Special Needs School, through demolition and reconstruction. (October 2001-April 2003).
With regular access to the construction site at Osborne School, Mitchell Bould collaborated with architects, engineers, construction contractors and the school to explore relationships between drawing the construction process and a finished building.
Work
shows how architectural drawings which appear precise and linear, are
deeply textured, interwoven with the many ideas that go into making a
building. The drawn line can be seen to take on additional dimensions
and volume as it links different groups of people, becoming the focus
for a community.
1. Victoria Mitchell Tracing the Fabric of Construction. Site Works Artist Book, The Winchester Gallery, 2005
Osborne School was designed by Hampshire County Council Architecture and Design Services, and constructed by Llewellyn’s Building Contractors. (October 2001-April 2003). The school received a RIBA award in June 2004.
The project has received funding from Arts Council England, the Arts and Humanities Research Board, Hampshire County Council, University of Southampton and Winchester City Council.
