Bluecoat and Castlefield Gallery announce inaugural PIVOT artists for new development programme.
posted 21 Oct 2020
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The main installation contains a landscape of ceramic columns inspired by cuneiform-inscribed tablets - an early system of writing - dating from 2500BC. Baldock’s version presents an alternative history of clay as a tool of communication; his ceramic columns feature expressive faces, emoji symbols and make audible groans, whistles and chuckles through concealed speakers. The columns are also adorned with weaving, basketry and glass drawn from different eras of labour, folklore and storytelling like an archeological find from a parallel universe.
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Bluecoat and Castlefield Gallery announce inaugural PIVOT artists for new development programme.
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