Model proposal for Hocking's Cross-Course touring visitor experience
Bridgette Ashton
Inland Festival, 2016
Photo: Bridgette Ashton Inland Art Festival is a contemporary art festival founded by Alice Mahoney, Cat Bagg and Rosie Allen and produced by Field Notes. It brings diverse communities together in the historic town of Redruth, Cornwall, providing a locally rooted platform for local and regional creative practitioners and opportunities for audiences to see internationally renowned art in unusual locations. Redruth once held the title of ‘richest square mile in the world’, now the monetary wealth has all but gone yet it’s still one of the richest towns we know. The Future Project explored some of the ways these foundations can be built upon to imagine alternative, possible and impossible, weird and wonderful futures. For Inland 2016, the second iteration of the festival, we worked with local residents, artists, academics and musicians, showcasing 120 artists in 21 venues to create a three-day alternative future around Redruth.
Model proposal for Hocking's Cross-Course touring visitor experience, Bridgette Ashton, 2016
Cardboard, glue, (fake) copper leaf, wood, ink
Fathoms Table, Bridgette Ashton, 2016
Letterpress on paper (edition of 20)
Bridgette was one of the six artists commissioned for Inland Festival: The Future Project. She visited the Cornish Records Office during her commission to view some of the mine plans and maps held in the archives, creating a two part work, Model proposal for Hocking's Cross-Course touring visitor experience and Fathoms Table, in reference to the historic archive plans of Wheal Buller mine. Wheal Buller, which lies to the south of Redruth, was once one of the greatest copper mines in Cornwall, producing 140,000 tons of copper ore between 1819 and 1875. The sculpture Model proposal for Hocking's Cross-Course touring visitor experience was exhibited in the Cornish Studies Library, one of the festival venues.
Bridgette also showed two other artworks at the festival, which were exhibited in an empty shop that was taken over for the event. One of the works was Model for Banqueting Hall Cavern Touring Replica, part of The Lost Cave a project commemorating a now-demolished cave at Porth near Newquay. The Banqueting Hall Cavern was used as a concert venue (up until the 1920s) during low spring tides, hosting up to 1000 visitors at candlelit performances.
Model for Banqueting Hall Cavern Touring Replica, Bridgette Ashton. Photos: Artur Tixiliski
Model for a Mountainside, Bridgette Ashton.
Photos: Artur Tixiliski
Photos: Artur Tixiliski
FUNDERS AND PARTNERS
Inland Festival 2016 was supported by funds from Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund, Big Lottery Fund, FEAST, Cornwall Council and Redruth Town Council, and delivered in partnership with Krowji, Cornwall College, Visual Arts South West, Field Notes, LUX, Falmouth University, CMR Project Space and Back Lane West.
Inland Festival 2016 was supported by funds from Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund, Big Lottery Fund, FEAST, Cornwall Council and Redruth Town Council, and delivered in partnership with Krowji, Cornwall College, Visual Arts South West, Field Notes, LUX, Falmouth University, CMR Project Space and Back Lane West.
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