Photography – Page 6 – Sally Wakelin

Construction 1975

Another of my father’s construction sculptures – and a description written by my brother at a much later date.

“Richard Wakelin made sculptures based on the ideas of Op Art and Systems Art. It is fascinating to see how calm clean ‘spaces’ could be made by taking simple shapes and repeating them through regular patterns and imagining being able to walk through them. In this piece the basic shape is repeated again and again but it’s orientation is decided from one line to the next according to a ‘pendulum pattern’ in which the corresponding pieces swing from one end of the line to the other.”

In the last few years I have been exploring similar practices, using simple repeated units and altering their orientation by various systems. Some examples below
Shadows

Heather Miller – Visual Artist

Photography, Visual Art

Heather’s images are influenced and underpinned by her work as a forensic examiner. There are dark undercurrents and telling imagery of crime scenes remembered or perhaps the stuff of brain activity during sleep. In a lighter mood are images of the forensic examination of a friend’s face and the somehow nostalgic washing line full of drying rolls of film, the nude statue amusingly taking her place in the line-up.
Her work is developing through themes of her professional and private life, deeply emotional and yet her natural wry humour is still firmly evident.

Heather Miller

An old market house in Bléré

Photography

The lovely creamy coloured local stone is very soft and much of the original intricate carving is gone now, the once-smooth faces of the stones roughed and cracked. The lower storey, a third lower than street level has been blocked up, it is nevertheless an interesting reminder of its past prime.