An English Journey: Andrew Cross
An English Journey: Andrew Cross
An English Journey is the first solo touring exhibition in the UK of work by artist Andrew Cross. Short-listed for Beck’s Futures 2004, Cross began working as an artist in 2000 following an established career as a curator.
An English Journey presents two specially commissioned film works and a series of photographs exploring the seemingly prosaic experience of a place through continual transit. Always changing, both films move through concurrent landscapes that one can never remain situated in. 3 hours from here was filmed through the unusual but privileged viewpoint of a heavy goods vehicle. This piece is strangely mesmerising and hypnotic, contradicting one’s expectations of a post-industrial countryside that appears largely untouched and unrecognisable. The second film in the exhibition, Where a man might well first land, illustrates the pictorial quality of Cross’ work. Revealing a serene, almost Turneresque landscape, the film gradually evolves, detailing fragments of information as it describes a ships’ passage along the Solent estuary towards the port of Southampton before returning back out to sea
video, journey, installation, film
Foster, Stephen
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Bode, Steven
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Foster, Stephen
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Bode, Steven
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Foster, Stephen and Bode, Steven
(2004)
An English Journey: Andrew Cross.
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Abstract
An English Journey is the first solo touring exhibition in the UK of work by artist Andrew Cross. Short-listed for Beck’s Futures 2004, Cross began working as an artist in 2000 following an established career as a curator.
An English Journey presents two specially commissioned film works and a series of photographs exploring the seemingly prosaic experience of a place through continual transit. Always changing, both films move through concurrent landscapes that one can never remain situated in. 3 hours from here was filmed through the unusual but privileged viewpoint of a heavy goods vehicle. This piece is strangely mesmerising and hypnotic, contradicting one’s expectations of a post-industrial countryside that appears largely untouched and unrecognisable. The second film in the exhibition, Where a man might well first land, illustrates the pictorial quality of Cross’ work. Revealing a serene, almost Turneresque landscape, the film gradually evolves, detailing fragments of information as it describes a ships’ passage along the Solent estuary towards the port of Southampton before returning back out to sea
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Accepted/In Press date: 2004
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Commissioned works.
Curated with Steven Bode, collaboration with Film & Video Umbrella.
Toured to Rugby Art Gallery and Museum.
Funded by Arts Council Grants for the Arts.
Keywords:
video, journey, installation, film
Organisations:
Faculty of Humanities, Professional Services
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Local EPrints ID: 355940
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/355940
PURE UUID: 5769ea40-a35b-43d3-994d-04cf8202baa0
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Date deposited: 05 Dec 2013 14:27
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 02:45
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Contributors
Curator of an exhibition:
Stephen Foster
Curator of an exhibition:
Steven Bode
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