The narrative focuses on the public environment and ambience of a historical city centre ecclesiastical building and its exterior statuary. A mapping process indicates journeys delineated with poured paint mediums onto fragments of plaster-cast 3D maps which have been scanned and reproduced on the page through screen printing
Cloth bound hardback book mixed page paper stock includes cotton rag paper
Closed dimensions: 23.2cm x 17.5cm x 8mm
‘Redcliffe Effigies’: (GB Bristol, UK 2000)
‘Domestic Interior Rooms & Fixtures’: (GB Bristol, UK 2000)
“Domestic Interior is an inventory of emptiness. Here is a house that has already been cleared. The only images are four rough plaster casts of switches and sockets – deathmasks of the inanimate. In place of the usual end-of-tenancy stockcheck of fixtures and fittings, Begbie’s list of contents attempts to hold on to the intangible – the distinctive whirring of a clock, or the way that shadows and sunlight played across a room”……. Judith Palmer: ‘Paper Wraps Stone’: “Sitting Room: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books”: Righton Press: MMU 2006: exhibition catalogue essay extract
Cloth bound hardback book mixed page paper stock includes cotton rag paper
Closed dimensions: 28.3cm x 18cm x 8mm
‘Domestic Interior Rooms & Fixtures’: (GB Bristol, UK 2000)
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