Printmakers Exploring Place
21 May – 13 July 2014
WYPW Exhibition at Art Station (Huddersfield Railway
Station)
Navigating Yorkshire brings
together new and recent artworks by seven printmakers investigating the
relationships we form with place, in order to greet travellers through
Huddersfield Railway station with an alternative and personally charged insight
into the geography of Yorkshire.
What personal connections do we make
with this geography
during the course of our everyday
lives?
How might these connections be
represented by an artist so
as to introduce visitors to a place?
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How might an emotional relationship
with a landscape take
visual precedence over a spatial
one?
How might a place be navigated
according to affinity,
as opposed to proximity?
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As a part
of the Yorkshire Festival 2014, West Yorkshire Print
Workshop will be presenting a special exhibition, which investigates the
questions above, in a venue thoroughly apt for welcoming Le Tour followers
to the north of England. Mediating between the calm grandeur of a neo-classical
facade and the constant bustle of six platforms, this venue is Art
Station- an exhibition space newly born of the Huddersfield Railway
concourse.
West
Yorkshire Print Workshop, in partnership with Art Station, has invited their
affiliated printmakers- both WYPW members and Printmakingonline
members- to showcase new and recent work that will greet the travelling
public with an alternative and personally charged insight into the geography of
the county. By abandoning cartographic convention and mapping places according
to personal journeys and lived experience, the exhibition promises to offer up
new subjective means for navigating Yorkshire- to both expectant first-time
visitors and to regular commuters of the concourse.
Participating artists are:
