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<\/a>Caption: Images of Neville & Joan Gabie's research into Bideford Black in plastics production. With thanks to Hampton Plastics. Copyright Carolyn Black<\/p><\/div>\n
On the 11th March, there will be an early opportunity to meet one of the artists at the gallery when Luce Choules will be presenting her recent alpine fieldwork project Guide74 in a special \u2018performance lecture\u2019. She will also introduce Seam, the new choreographed exhibition she is creating for Bideford Black: The Next Generation. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Choules explores physical and emotional geography through experimental fieldwork.<\/p>\n
Selected by open call last autumn, all of the artists are developing new artworks either with, or about, Bideford Black pigment, for the Burton\u2019s permanent collection.<\/p>\n
Devon-based artist Tabatha Andrews works in a range of media including drawing and casting forms in paper.<\/p>\n
Artist duo ATOI, based in Cornwall, are exploring the transformation of material from one form to another. The pair are experimenting with using Bideford Black in false diamonds and even as a surface for martial arts.<\/p>\n
Inspired by Bideford\u2019s historic industries and their workers, and society\u2019s pre-occupation with the natural, London-based artist Corinne Felgate will set up a temporary cottage industry at a North Devon location. Using only local natural materials, Felgate will create 100 small objects for applying \u2018Bideford Black mascara\u2019.<\/p>\n
Prompted by Bideford Black, and using a shared sketchbook, artists Neville Gabie and Joan Gabie are holding a \u2018dialogue of ideas\u2019 with Cultural Geographer Ian Cook (University of Exeter). Together, the artists explore the physicality, social and geological significance of Bideford Black, creating an artist\u2019s film and drawings.<\/p>\n
Lanarkshire-based artist duo Littlewhitehead are interested in the environmental processes forming Bideford Black: what would the Carboniferous period have sounded like? Their developing commission is tightly under wraps, but may incorporate experimental sound recordings or Bideford Black discs resembling vinyl LP records.<\/p>\n
Lizzie Ridout will set Bideford Black within a new taxonomy – or story – of the colour black. Incorporating her research into the subject, the Cornwall-based artist will create a printed publication, presented as a sculpture, pieces of which audience members may be able to take away.<\/p>\n
The final artist, Sam Treadaway is working with Bristol botanists to create a scent inspired by Bideford Black. The scent will be interactively transmitted into the gallery space using a bubble-blowing machine developed by roboticists from the University of the West of England.<\/p>\n
Film-maker Liberty Smith is documenting the Bideford Black: The New Generation project. As well as filming the eight artists and artist duos as they research and create their work, Liberty will film the landscape around Bideford and the North Devon coast. Smith\u2019s film will be premiered as part of the project exhibition in October 2015.<\/p>\n
To get an inside glimpse of those involved in the project do join the upcoming talk by Luce Choules on \u00a011th March at 7pm at the Burton Art Gallery. This is a free admission event, but booking is advised \u00a0– \u00a0tel 01237 471455 or email burtonartgallery@torridge.gov.uk.<\/p>\n
And another date for your diaries, “Bideford Black: The Next Generation Exhibition” opens on 3rd October at the Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Bideford, Devon, EX39 2QQ<\/p>\n
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New art commissions to explore science, industry and society in local pigment project Nine \u00a0artists have been selected to make new work for the Bideford Black: The Next Generation project ahead of a special exhibition at the Burton Art Gallery … Continue reading