ANTARCTICA: A HEARTBEAT OF THE EARTH

In 2006/2007 I was in Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey on the ‘Artists and writers Fellowship’.

  • See below for some of my works that came from this trip

  • Read an account of the visit and my work in the most absolute and extreme place on earth

  • Visit my Blog for entries made during and following my trip

Everything and Nothing - hand written text in ink

Everything Nothing - hand-written text in ink on an inkjet print on artist's paper 88 x 78 cm.

"The ice sheets of Antarctica are an endless expanse of nothingness. Its the kind of intense nothingness that both fills and empties the mind. Enfolded within the ice and revealed by the echograms and ice cores are 900,000 years of the history of the Earth. These waves of land and ice are like a heartbeat of the Earth."

Antartica Works

Broken Spectre Inkjet print, 692 x 888 mm, ed 4
Ice Dagger Inkjet print, 919 x 678 mm.  ed. 4
Above and Below Cararra Nunatac  Inkjet prints, each 888 x 733 eds. 4
Ice Void           Inkjet print, each 918 x 888mm. ed 2/9
Cloud Igloo I & II Inkjet prints, 1970 x 1658 mm, eds. 3
Iceprints I, II & III Inkjet prints, 662 x 868, 652 x 888, 648 x 888, eds 4
Wind Vortices Inkjet print, 715 x 1506 mm. ed. 2/4
Under Sky Blu Inkjet print, 715 x 1506 mm. ed. 2/4
Wind Vortex drawing Embossed paper 760 x 670 mm. ed. 2/4
Wind drawing
24th & 25th January
 
Inkjet print on artists paper with pencil
Wind drawing
27th & 28th January
Inkjet print on artists paper, with biro on transparent film overlaid
Double Echo An echogram under the ice with the pilot's Echocardiogram superimposed. inkjet print on vinyl, ed 2/4
Lake Concordia Biro on inkjet print on vinyl of an echogram from under the ice in East Antarctica, 1306 x 1137 mm 
Under The Ice, Over the Unknown, detail flight G23 Pencil and ink on an inkjet print from an echogram under the ice, on artists paper, 2060 x 870