exhibition bristol

44 WALKS an exhibition by Hannah Sullivan

at BOCABAR, THE PAINTWORKS. BRISTOL

NOVEMBER 2009

44 walks is a project orginally based in PARIS investigating WALKING as an ARTS PRACTICE, the city as stimulation, and maps as art works.

ALL 44 WALKS 26x26" £200

WALK 1 BRISTOL 36x48" £200

NORTH TO SOUTH 24x36" £180

WALK 36 24x36" £180

THE REKINDELING OF A PROJECT (2009)

 

Now in Bristol, I am in a point of discovery again – finding new routes and learning a new city. It becomes less about travel and seeking the estrangement required for creativity, it is now more about making a home. There are now points of comparison, between Paris and Bristol, and finding a way to communicate this idea of walking as an arts practice to Bristol, this exhibition is my first point of call.

 

 

For information about the project, purchasing the canvases or prints contact me on hannahsullivan88@googlemail.com

walking in bristol

hello. blog update. i have moved to bristol and begun to revisit this material in relation to my new location.

are people in Bristol going to be interested in maps of Paris?

shall i do the same walks in Bristol?

should i compare the cities?

I have begun to write as i did in Paris, but the urge to map it has not occured yet.

I have a job. friends. a life. unlike Paris - my circumstances a different, it would feel forced to repeat the same processes.

VICTORIA PARK

It’s sunny in Victoria park today

I’ve got sandwiches in tin foil and water in a lucazade bottle

Its 14.55.

People are walking dogs or babies. Holding leads or pushing prams.

I came hear to watch them.

To spend some time in the sun.

To stop sneezing in my dusty house with rotten carpet and greasy sink water.

‘fuck you you horrible cunt’ he shout

the park becomes uneasy

he sprints down the hill for sprinting sake, his blue jacket billowing.

I have begun to collect these observations to make a zine for Spike Islands Artists book and zine fair (31st) - what the zines will look like i am unsure.

I have strategies for coping with a new place – with being lost in a new city

 

-       Find places inside (libraries/churches)

-       Look content

-       Avoid public transport

-       Spread errands out, be leisurely

-       Take up every ‘small talk’ opportunity

-       Find a small patches of grass

 

When we moved to Bristol there were pianos in the streets

I think i should walk with people...couchsurf again...contact people in paris walk with them. people in england...walk with them.

i get excited again now im writing about it.

I want the work to become about Bristol, as it was about Paris.

 

44 walks map

A MAP OF ALL 44 WALKS;

featured in Annelies Puddy's bedroom;

EXHIBITION (2) AT 'CONCOURSE' FESTIVAL

3 till 6.45 STUDIO 6...click on the tiny pictures so they become big pictures...

featured in the exhibition: 

sunrise to sunset walk, mapped with red wool and blue tack across the floor and projected film.

3 SELECTED WALKS MAPPED IN RED WOOL fell into my holey boots, RED THREAD with the wheel left on the floor AND RED TAPE and the roll still hanging.

all 44 walks on an OHP.

maps, notes, sketches, photos produced over the project time period, as back drop for edited book; '44walks. an extract.'

next step...interaction!

exhibition

I RECENTLY PUT UP A SMALL EXHIBITION OF WORK FROM THIS PROJECT IN AN ART SHARING EVENING CALLED 'PEAR'...this can be found at www.pear-share.blogspot.com . IT WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A BOOK I MADE WHICH HAD THIS INTRODUCTION;

'44 walks

An extract

Hannah Sullivan

I went walking in paris for two months.
I played games. I followed instructions. I followed people.

I got lost. I wrote. I drew. I gathered. I made maps.

Now i am arranging. I am exhibiting.

I am making postcards and retracing lines.'